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Title: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: desmoquattro on January 01, 2010, 07:30:20 PM
Got a laugh out of this:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/mcy/1528501868.html (http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/mcy/1528501868.html)


DUCATI 1198S FOR SALE THE BIKE HAS ONLY COSMETIC DAMAGE ,RUNS EXCELENT only 932 miles, PERFEC TO MAKE THIS BIKE FOR TRACKS DAY $12000


Then you see the pics:
(http://images.craigslist.org/3nd3k23l15Qb5Ue5P79csab7469dd77cd1fb7.jpg)

Yeah...that big dent in the sidewall of the rim is only cosmetic ;D
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: mostrobelle on January 01, 2010, 07:56:20 PM
Well, if his spelling is any indication...perhaps he meant to type "catastrophic" damage?  

Personally I don't give two poops about his cosmetic damage--what I would pay money for is to know how it got there.   [laugh]
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: ghostrider on January 01, 2010, 11:26:07 PM
How do you do that the back rim but still have what looks like a perfectly good front rim.
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: mostrobelle on January 02, 2010, 06:36:00 AM
Quote from: ghostrider on January 01, 2010, 11:26:07 PM
How do you do that the back rim but still have what looks like a perfectly good front rim.

You hit a curb doing a wheelie at high speed?
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: Michael Moore on January 02, 2010, 07:11:03 AM
The Mother Of All Potholes?
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: Spidey on January 02, 2010, 07:18:44 AM
Quote from: ghostrider on January 01, 2010, 11:26:07 PM
How do you do that the back rim but still have what looks like a perfectly good front rim.

A lowside where the rear wheel hits a post or a curb or a tree or sumptin.
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: desmoquattro on January 02, 2010, 08:36:04 AM
Quote from: Spidey on January 02, 2010, 07:18:44 AM


A lowside where the rear wheel hits a post or a curb or a tree or sumptin.

...or gets hit by a Buell.
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: Desmostro on January 02, 2010, 04:46:28 PM
Oh no.  No windscreen + impossibly shattered rear wheel can only mean it went down the road, end over end until the rear wheel whipped into something squarely and stopped.   [laugh]

You don't get a wheel looking like that rolling over a curb. Is it just me or does the front shocks look completely flat?

I'm with 'Bell on this one. I'd pay money to see that on video. 
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: Speeddog on January 03, 2010, 05:18:27 PM
The other picture tells more of the story, all left side bodywork is gone.

Location is Sunland, not far from Angeles Crest.

I'm bettin' pretty much what Spidey said; lowside, guardrail post boinks rear rim, bike spins, next post wipes out front/upper fairing.

(http://images.craigslist.org/3k43p93of5Tc5P95R39cs0dbf53268b501470.jpg)

Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: ghostrider on January 03, 2010, 07:19:30 PM
Ah I see.
Do you think I could shoe horn that motor into a 97 SS frame.
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: johnc on January 04, 2010, 07:45:00 PM
Quote from: ghostrider on January 03, 2010, 07:19:30 PM
Ah I see.
Do you think I could shoe horn that motor into a 97 SS frame.

no problem  [roll]

but really ... i am pretty sure all that "COSMETIC" damage will buff right out  [roll]
Title: Re: Do They Really Think We're Stupid?
Post by: MendoDave on January 06, 2010, 02:32:47 PM
He cased it over a jump?

It looks like the same thing that happened to that log truck on the north end of Hwy 1. Bent rim and bent tow bar. I wish I had pictures.