Angry!

[leigh_boy]

some on has taken a grinder to my RSV!!!! while at work (very much out of the way from public i would like to add)
some one has grinded off the chain round my rsv and in the progress caught the swing arm! good few mm. the bike is no in the warehouse.!!!
very ****ed!

 

[leigh_boy]

nope we dont have cctv despite me recommending it a number of times.
unlikely to of upset any 1, i ride to work occasionally and its 30 miles aware from where i live.
i do accept the bike is very noisy but it is a v twin ..

 

[leigh_boy]

Well you have a case to put forward regarding CCTV now at least...

Maybe you'll get it now. Every cloud and all that... Will it be an expensive repair? I have no experience with modern bikes.

if only. the pool cars have been damged a number of times.
they dont really care.

il either leave it or get a second hand swing arm

 

[leigh_boy]

security chain round the back wheel, i have another chain but ye.
its hard to explain the bike was near the entrance for delivery and we are at the very end of a industrial estate ( near a woods) where bikes do get taken. for abuse when stolen.
i will put the bike right at the doors as they are open and people do work there in the future.

 

[leigh_boy]

Actually that's pretty easy to repair, any good ali welder will fill that in without too much trouble, then just polish out the weld marks.

we have a welder here who is a specialists in vacuum welding but he might be the man to ask. we are a vacuum science company.

 

[leigh_boy]

The RSV swing arms are polished and anodised, so it's never going to be an invisible repair, unless you get the whole thing powder coated etc.

Definitely don't leave it though, you don't want stress raisers like that in a critical suspension part (the 2004 RSV swing arms were prone to cracking from the factory due to a small hole being drilled where it shouldn't.).

thats handy to know, i will take a look on the bay for one