Gear lever for 650 K6 pointy - common to other Suzi models?

[Craig380]

Originally Posted by Bibio

if you keep the bike in gear when you park up it stops the bike rolling back/fourth so if the side stand is a bit dodgy it wont go anywhere. use the same method in high winds if your bike is parked up outside.

I think it might have been a gust of wind that did it, it was blowing a bit where I stopped. I usually double-check the stand is fully 'locked out' before leaving the bike but didn't do this time. As mentioned earlier, it would've been a LOT worse without the crash bungs.

Anyway, local fabricator did an invisible repair on the lever for a fiver, can't argue with that

[Bibio]

superb

Originally Posted by Craig380

Thanks Blapper - that's another option. It's irritating that the lever snapped right where the toe peg joins the body of the lever, so a foldable toe peg is probably a good idea.

Serves me right for not double-checking the stand was fully 'locked out,' which I normally do ...

Foldable ones are a great idea in theory, in reality they just snap the actual arm so there's no way to bodge a fix.

Go on ask me how I know

[Craig380]

Originally Posted by tom_e

Foldable ones are a great idea in theory, in reality they just snap the actual arm so there's no way to bodge a fix.

Go on ask me how I know

How do you know?

I thought I'd got away with it after picking the bike up, too - I clocked the cracked indicator body, it was only when I found the bike had been knocked into gear and I tried to get neutral that I saw the toe peg on the ground

[BigFootIsBlurry]

At least the toe peg didn't come clean of at a set of lights like mine did about an hour after I bought my first bike (some years back now). Bent the arm with a wrench and rode it like that for a month before I sorted it out properly.

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