Crash reports

You are kidding right?

*Just in case you are not....yes, yes they crash very well. Take it from an expert.

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I couldn't tell you how well it crashes because mine never hits the ground






And for the record . . . no, I haven't broken anything yet.

Oh I love that last one!!! Yeah, it's a pretty solid bike. The one thing that might snap is the mirrors, so many of us have gone with aftermarket ones that either fold away or mount under the bars. Other than that, you pick it back up, get on and ride. It's a tough little bike.

I always remove my mirrors when I go offroad.

Yeah you only make that mistake once I think and then it becomes second nature. Where was that shot taken? Looks like a pretty decent ride.

Which shot?

The first one was here - http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=456047

And the second one was taken when a few of us were just playing around here locally - same spot this pic was taken . . .

You've got some incredible shots. Now if this latest snow would just go away...

Krabill wrote:

I couldn't tell you how well it crashes because mine never hits the ground






And for the record . . . no, I haven't broken anything yet.

How come you never fall to the right?

Probably cause he's hangin' to the left...

My bike has been down exactly three times. Those two in the pictures, and a third that was caught in a video. All three of them were to the left. Hadn't thought about that before

Found the video of my third get-off. It's at the end of this video . . .

http://vimeo.com/4971643

Guess we'll start having to call you Lefty, hmmm?

There's a lot of advantages to crashing on the same side all the time
You always have a pretty side to display
Crashing to the left will never damage your radiator or scratch up your pretty muffler

I say keep up the good work

A 40mph dump on the left side on a snowy highway resulted in a bent foot peg, broken gytr flag handguard, rashed up bar end, and rashed aftermarket shifter (stock would have bent into the case), and tweaked the bars in the clamps. A similar drop on the right about 1/4 mile later at ~20mph bent the other foot peg, broke the other handguard, jammed the throttle tube so that it wouldn't twist smoothly (needed adjustment, nothing broke), and pushed the bars back into position. Didn't break either mirror or turn signals.

Countless other drops at various, usually slower, speed and all off-road except for once in a parking lot (forgot the kickstand) and once on a severely sidways sloped intersection, resulted in no damage other than a bent stock shifter and bent levers (until I replaced them with the Zeta Folding levers, which survived the above crashed just fine).

Yeah, they crash well.

I just found out my Monster doesn't like ice.

The WR crashes better than my Torch.

rider213 wrote:

Does the WRR crash pretty well?

May sound like an odd question but still…some bikes take those inevitable low speed sand/mud dumps better than others.

This is what happened when I dropped my bike in the mud:
https://wr250rforum.forumotion.com/maintenance-f2/broke-my-plastics-advice-please-t1106.htm

I dropped it 10 times in a single ride. All slow speed, if any speed. Only damage we bent levers that still worked, scratches and I ground down the ends of my new grips!

SDAR Ride at Primm report