banshee04le Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 are you sure you didn't bumb your head too hard in that crash? it sounds like you got yourself a pretty sweet ride...and your thinking about parting it out cause you bent your stem? since when did the lsr stuff become junk all of the sudden? every crash is unique and anything can be bent or broken. hang in there dude . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tats4life Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 from looking at the pics it looks like your clamp set is bent not your stem, it's hard to tell with everything stil on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaf29 Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Nope the stem is bent purty good, here's a pic. 04le you're right I love my shee and the setup I got. What got me fired up was I was under the impression this stuff was suppose to be able to take a real beating. While on the phone I said what if I hit a pretty big jump and my a-arm or swingarm breaks and the guy said I would be out of luck. The entire reason I paid the inflated LSR prices is because I was under the impression I was getting the warranty to back it up. I'm not talking about hitting trees but breaking stuff doing normal racing type riding. I got the if you race your gonna break stuff no matter what, but I guess that's the way it is. It all comes down to me though, I should have done more research, I was going off the fact that they have lifetime warranties on the axles and figure that would carry over. Plus I did flip my banshee and you're suppose to keep the rubber side down. It just really woke me up to the fact that one good crash can set me back some major major cash. The other reason that has me worried is my Captain, he knows I ride and I already got hurt once last year which didn't make him happy. My wife is an ER nurse and I snuck in to get an X-ray of my arm cause it just didn't feel right. Well I chipped my bone right below my elbow! It doesn't really hurt too much and doesn't affect bending my arm but I gotta report it so that should be fun. As long as it doesn't affect my PT I'll be good to go but I had a friend who got hurt snowboarding all the time and they banned him from doing it. Yes, the military owns my ass! For those who say don't report it, after naval aviation physicals they know every inch of your body and if I report to my next duty station and get my next physical they'll find and i'd be FUBAR. So right now its just stress over career vs. banshee but I'm trying to have both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 try sticking it in a 20 ton press and that might do the trick, just dont heat it up to bend it. hell you allready paid for it and are stuck with it so its worth a shot, if not i still have that stock stem that dunegoony was supposed to buy but i never heard back fron him. if he dont want it its yours man. later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaf29 Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Thanks, I'm gonna take it to a metal shop around here and see what they can do. You're exactly right its mine now so even if they snap it oh well I tried. I'm in such a better mood today cause I spoke with my CO. He was figgin cool as shit about it. He said "Can you still do pushups?" I said Yes, sir" he said "Good to go". He said he realizes that if the navy wants the type pilot that'll land a plane on a pitching deck in the middle of the night with no moon, that there is gonna have to be compromises. He knows that the type people that want to do this obviously have some dangerous hoobies outside the navy. He just saids please don't get really hurt cause its really easy to lose you "up chit". Thanks for the help guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MULLET~BOY Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 holy shit you must have took a bad spill to bend that sucker glad to see your allright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tats4life Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 OUCH, that's the worst bent stem I've ever seen. If they break it and you buy another aftermarket stem, look at Roll Design, out of all my wrecks I've only bent the mounting clamps never the stem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaf29 Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 The picture doesn't even do it justice, its bent both forward and to the right and it looks even worse in person. So it looks like I'll just have to run the stocker for now even though I loved the feel of the plus 1. If it can't be bent straight I'm gonna call up roll design then maybe i can bend theirs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Duece Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 The picture doesn't even do it justice, its bent both forward and to the right and it looks even worse in person. So it looks like I'll just have to run the stocker for now even though I loved the feel of the plus 1. If it can't be bent straight I'm gonna call up roll design then maybe i can bend theirs too somebody makes an adaptor that will bring that stock stem up and shock mount the bars....i know its not the same as an lsr stem but you can replace the stocker pretty easy i know i paid 350 for my lsr stem, damm there shit isnt cheap...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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