Last week i posted about being indecisive about heading to Scotland or France - I ended up doing both.
Scotland was bloody cold, spent a couple of days walking before thinking somewhere warmer might be nicer. I rode through about 2 hours of on/off snow on the way back down via Fort William/Glen Coe, After a day to chill at home I carried on to France.
In Scotland i heard a 'clonk' noise while riding alongside Loch Lommond - at the time I put it down to something bouncing off the skid plate.
A few days later heading back up through France towards home, sitting on a kerb eating a sandwich somewhere in France I spot the crossbar of the Altrider bars, and the top of the acd skid plate are no longer parallel ... I guess the bolt there has snapped or bent, probably what the clonk was. Everything seemed solid, so being on the way home and not wanting to remove and then possibly stap my skid-plate onto the back, I left it alone deciding I'm going to let the guys at the shop take a look as I don't like the idea of digging a possibly snapped bolt out of there, hopefully it's nothing more serious.
Later the same day, still in France I hit a patch of Diesel going around a roundabout. I went down pretty hard on the left side, I bought a new Rukka suit a while back and without the Knee armour I think I'd be on crutches with a very unhealthy knee-cap - it bore the full weight of me, and I think the bike at ~30mph in the initial impact, as it is I only have a slightly sore ankle. The only bits of the bike to touch the road were the altrider bars, the corner of the skid plate, the left pannier and the left mirror.
I'm just wondering if they'll believe it was like that before the crash!
Scuffed Bars
Pretty sure this should be straight, serviced a week ago so it's definitely something new.
Dark line is diesel, white spots are from the bars. Gendarmes stopped, looked around, and left ...