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Steve, I did the work myself. There's a big kluge of a carbon fiber patch where the fairing cracked. Unfortunately, the cracked allowed the fg to sproing apart in 3D, so it was very hard to get it back to shape. This was a quick, temporary repair: fix the crack, tape the decals, Duplicolor Flash Red rattlecan, 1500 followed by some 3M cutting paste (wish I had gotten my polisher out of storage!). 1 hour's time and it looks fair. I'm going to go through it this winter when the whole bike gets repainted.
here's the story I posted on Scott's "Wear your helmet" thread"
This was entirely my fault as an inexperienced rider, and I'm sure driving 6 hours starting at midnight Friday night, all day in the sun at Hershey, PA, driving back last night and getting up a 7 this morning probably didn't help.
Just going out to get gas in the neighborhood. I'm 5 cars back as we go through an intersection, few hundred feet up, the the second car pulls over and stops (one lane road). the lead car is taking a left. no oncoming traffic at all, she's taking a left for 20 seconds. We're all sitting there behind the second car watching the lead car sit slightly pulled left, signal on, for a full 20 seconds. Lots of beeping.
Very open road, you can plainly see no oncoming traffic. I FOOLISHLY decide to run up the left side of the cars, very cautiously at 5MPH or so, the woman taking a left finally starts to take the left. I plan on driving through where she is, when she stops. Simultaneously, the second car that was stopped, starts to drive into me.
Panic brake, bike goes down, short slide. the lady turning keeps yelling, "I had my blinker on." over and over. I pick the bike up, start it and go get gas. Come back home, most of the skin on my knee is gone, hip is banged up, forearm a little as well. very sore now. Will be more tomorrow. Helmet has a serious scuff on the right side. Without it, I'd be in the hospital.
All in all, this was a very inexpensive lesson learned and glad I could at low speed with minimal damage to me and the bike.
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