This summer, I was at the Carlisle Bike Fest, I decided to have a vendor install Rinehart True Duals and a PCIII. After finishing up with that and lowering the lift, I remembered that I was missing the screw that holds the seat on, the vendor had some nice chrome knob screws for $25 so I decided to purchase one and put it on at the same time. The threads in the fender were all gummed up so we raised the bike up to a comfortable height to run a thread chaser through the threads. We were talking the whole time and I forgot that I had opened the tour pack to retrieve some item out of it and forgot to close the lid. As the lift was going up I noticed that the bike had started to lean to the left, I asked, "Hey did someone loosen the wheel bracket up front?" No sooner did the words leave my mouth than we heard a loud crack and the bike straightened right back up. The damn lid was pushing up against the top rail of the tent and the pressure finally got the better of the tour pack. It cracked from top to bottom just forward of the front lid hinge.
The vendor offered to help pay for the damages because neither of us had caught that the lid was open. I couldn't, in good conscience make him pay a penny toward the repair because if I hadn't been talking to him and distracting him from his work this wouldn't have happened. But I did feel
really dumb for leaving the tour pack lid up...
Fortunately, when I got home I found a good local paint and body guy who repaired and repainted it for $250, Harley wanted $1130 for a new one.
Lesson learned, shut up, stay out of the way and let the techs do their jobs... Wost part is, my brother owns a garage and I know this already. Oh well, some lessons need to be re-taught...
2001 Harley Davidson FLHTCUI
Priscilla
Ozzy
Linear Mode
