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PO says that he "fell over" with the bike springing the luggage rack and saddlebag? That sure looks like a bit of an understatement. I have to think it took a pretty good whack on the left rear portion of the bike for the bending forces to get transmitted through the shock body and shaft, tweaking that shock mount to the right like that.

With all due respect to the comments in other recent strings concerning the variability in airhead frame dimensions, I strongly doubt that the degree of misalignment shown in this photo between the upper shock mount and the shock's upper mounting eye is the result of some benign quality assurance variability at the factory. The shock mount may be fixable using the technique ME109 suggests, but from what little we can see, it looks like that bike has suffered a significant crash, and other bits need a thorough examination.

uh-huh.
SIGNIFICANT something, anyhow.
Maybe those other parts got changed-out and PO thought this wouldn't be noticable...until the check cleared?

khittner1 wrote:PO says that he "fell over" with the bike springing the luggage rack and saddlebag?

Looks like a reasonable possibility to me. After all, he didn't say how fast he was going when he "fell over."


Actually, I could see a driveway tip-over doing that level of damage if you had enough load on the bike, a good sized passenger, and you were a fairly hefty load yourself and were clueless enough to make no solid attempt to control the fall and minimize the damage.