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Cruiser
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Duanesburg N.Y. | Had the new vision jump off the bike lift in the garage last night and land upside down due to a rachet strap failure. UGH!! the left directional wing on the fairing took most of the shot, clutch lever snapped at the break off groove and the left side bag cover is all dug up. the insurance adjuster will be here tomarrow.
Heres my question, the insurance will cover the mishap but some one has had to have vision body parts replaced due to accident damage and how good was victory getting the parts to the dealer????? Its all just plastic body parts that are needed. I have visions of my vision sitting at the dealership all summer long with the all typical story that the parts are back ordered.
My dealership seems to be pretty good and americade in lake george is a little over 1 month away and I hope I wont be a curb spectator watching the bikes go by.
Why this couldnt have happened in october is beyond me.
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, Va | I've had to go throw up twice just reading your post.
You don't really say where you are or what year your Vision is, but I figure you're up around New York. Hopefully it won't be all summer long especially after a long winter. See if they'll let you keep the Vision until the parts come in and you can duct-tape it up to be rideable. Visions are versitale like that... |
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Cruiser
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Duanesburg N.Y. | I am around Schenectady NY and my dealership is in clifton park, My vision is an 09 dark cherry and it seemed all I ever see in the 09 model in the dark cherry so I'm hoping parts will come soon
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, Va | I'm not sure on the 09 but it should be the same as the 08's so hopefully there is some replacement parts. sorry to hear it wanted to go for a ride before you took it off the jack.... |
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Tourer
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Akron Ohio area | I was going to get a lift.
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Cruiser
Posts: 65
| bigfoot - 2011-05-05 10:55 PM
I was going to get a lift.
WAS.
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Sorry to hear about your mishap. Hope you can get it fixed up quickly. |
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Puddle Jumper
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| What kind of lift? I have a Sears Craftsman lift and I have left my XC on the lift unattended with on straps for hours. Does your lift have the safety arms so jack can't leak down? I can't understand how a bike can jump if it is not running? I just want to know so it can't happen to others. Good luck on getting it fixed quickly.  |
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Iron Butt
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Central New York | I would have loved to see a before picture to see how the bike was sitting on the jack. I have just a cheapo HF jack. I've never strapped my bike to it. It is just rock solid and I am sure the whole jack would fall over before the bike fell off the jack. I always make sure the two casting ears that hang down off the front of the engine are squarely on the front jack cross bar. I could see where if one was on the edge and slipped off the bike would take a flip. |
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Iron Butt
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New York State | Parts should not to be to hard to get Deer Crusher is 100% replaced nose and tank plastics |
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Tourer
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Simi Valley, CA | That hurts just reading it..... Get back on the road soon! |
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Cruiser
Posts: 103
Duanesburg N.Y. | Dropped the vision off to the dealer after I got the blessing from the insurance lady. Her husband has a Harley flh and they ride alot so she was very sympathetic to what happened and really want to get my bike fixed better than new and a.s.a.p. The dealer ship told me if all goes right no longer than 2 weeks so I guess I'll do a bunch of yard work for a while. My lift is a harbor freight special and works excellent and did not fail at all. I always use 2 straps per side rated at 1000 lbs each and I loosened the rear strap to polish the side bag and when I snapped the release the other strap did not hold securly. I dont think the rachet mechanism failed but more to the fact that I did not have enough raps on the rachet drum for the strap to realy bite in to it self and when the rear strap released it just pulled throo the groove in the ratchet drum and over it went. I bought good straps I felt.
I admit this to all as I think it was more operator error than mechanical failure as I would not want this to happen to anyone else so learn by mu screw up and keep your bike in one piece instead of 50 pieces. I took pics of the damage and will post as soon as I can find the damn camera cable to get to the computer.
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bike jumped off the bike lift