What To Do After You Crash Your Motorcycle

There’s an old saying in motorcycling: It’s not if you’ll crash, but when. In some unspecified time in the future, your quantity will come up, and it’s essential to know what to do within the aftermath: what organs to get checked out, which bones to fix, whose insurance coverage to take care of for months on end till it virtually doesn’t really feel price it any extra. Oh, and the best way to get your bike again up and operating from all that harm.

Fortunately, Ari Henning over at RevZilla has some assist for that final half. Within the newest installment of his Store Handbook sequence, he’s obtained the small print on the best way to get your wrecked bike again in prime-ish situation—a course of he’s all too comfortable to show on his personal crashed Gixxer.

Henning’s topic for the day is Dave, the K5 Suzuki GSXR 1000 that famously whooped a 2020 Ducati Panigale on track and within the course of gaining each the seemingly unwinnable contest and the hearts of RevZilla’s viewers and hosts. Henning seems to have crashed Dave at some separate monitor day and used the lowside as an excuse to indicate viewers the best way to piece their damaged bikes again collectively after such an accident.

His course is a straightforward one: a fast scan for harm, a deeper scan for points surrounding the marked spots or in different, much less seen areas, after which getting all of it pieced again collectively. The restore course of itself entails Henning’s finest suggestions for locating components online, in addition to his suggestions for which components might be safely cheaped out on. He’s a fan of aftermarket plastics, for those who had been questioning.

The outcome, after Henning’s work, has Dave trying higher than ever. Positive, the body remains to be gouged and the engine case remains to be scuffed to all hell; however, all the pieces seem to be working—and in higher beauty form than the Gixxer’s tough beginnings. Simply keep in mind, in any case claimed and executed, to replace the helmet you crashed in. It’s executed its job.