Id4rob
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Last week, I took my first interstate ride on my 6-wk old 2010 NT700V. I traveled from my home in the OKC area to Nashville almost entirely on I-40 for a company meeting. While driving some distance east of Little Rock, I approached construction and the traffic slowed and compressed. I checked one mirror and then the other and before I could look straight ahead, I hit something in the road. (I know, I already feel like an idiot for letting the distance between me and the cor in front of me to the point where I could let something like that happen.) What ever I hit/drove over compressed the front forks violently, but then flipped out of the way and was not touched by the back tire. Although the front end went into violent, but, thankfully, short oscillations, after a second or two everything stabilized. Although I should have pulled over to check for damage immediately, I was faced with concrete barricades on either side of the road where the shoulders should have started. In short, I was stuck. I checked around the bike as I continued on and could see no damage. At the earliest opportunity, I pulled over at the end of the construction zone and looked the bike over. The unidentified object had gone airborne long enought to hit my center stand and forcibly remove its left pivot pin which allowed it to swign over and dig a shallow groove into my back tire. I re-positioned the center stand, checked the front and rear tires in detail and, being in the middle of nowhere, continued on to Nashville. Along the way, I notice the front-end seemed to have a little wobble when going over uneven pavement or when passing a semi tractor-trailer at speed. In follow up checks, I found nothing loose.
What should I look for?
(New tires are going on now. I'm glad I bought the tire & wheel package along with the bike. At least the rear tire, if not the fron, is free.)
What should I look for?
(New tires are going on now. I'm glad I bought the tire & wheel package along with the bike. At least the rear tire, if not the fron, is free.)