VIEJO
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As discussed earlier one of the issues with working on a "K" bike is getting to the job site..... I'm trying a new approach.
On my way to a club breakfast Saturday morning I had a brief but unfortunate encounter with a deer. Fortunately it was a slow stretch of very narrow rural road and a fairly small deer (just out of spots). I didn't go down and when I found a place wide enough to get turned around without backing and filling I went back and found no trace of the deer so hopefully it got off as easy as I did (although I did find a tuft of deer hair in the cracked left side fairing). I found a safe spot to park the bike and gave it a thorough inspection, found nothing damaged except tupperware, and so rode on to breakfast and then home again. Bottom line is I will need to replace the left side panel and the forward upper trim piece.
The good news is now that I have all the bodywork removed I can get around to doing all the stuff I have been procrastinating about for the last year or so. Perhaps everything does happen for a purpose.
In all seriousness though, even though this was a very minor deer hit by Texas standards it was still a hit, and I believe the main reason I didn't go down was that the shattering fairing absorbed the brunt of the impact. Doesn't make the replacement parts any cheaper, but it does make them worth the price.
As discussed earlier one of the issues with working on a "K" bike is getting to the job site..... I'm trying a new approach.
On my way to a club breakfast Saturday morning I had a brief but unfortunate encounter with a deer. Fortunately it was a slow stretch of very narrow rural road and a fairly small deer (just out of spots). I didn't go down and when I found a place wide enough to get turned around without backing and filling I went back and found no trace of the deer so hopefully it got off as easy as I did (although I did find a tuft of deer hair in the cracked left side fairing). I found a safe spot to park the bike and gave it a thorough inspection, found nothing damaged except tupperware, and so rode on to breakfast and then home again. Bottom line is I will need to replace the left side panel and the forward upper trim piece.
The good news is now that I have all the bodywork removed I can get around to doing all the stuff I have been procrastinating about for the last year or so. Perhaps everything does happen for a purpose.
In all seriousness though, even though this was a very minor deer hit by Texas standards it was still a hit, and I believe the main reason I didn't go down was that the shattering fairing absorbed the brunt of the impact. Doesn't make the replacement parts any cheaper, but it does make them worth the price.
