So I tipped my 696 over on its right side and bent my brake pedal in towards the frame  .  It's still useable but I have to torque my bad foot inward more than I prefer to.

Would frame sliders (or any other sliders) have prevented this?  I'm just surprised other than a scratched bar end, nothing else on my Duc was damaged.

TIA 

Broke my shifter and chewed up my frame slider at the same time, so probably not.

Yours coulda been a lot worse!

you can just bend it back in place if you're strong enough. or if you want to be nice and neat about it, remove the shifter. heat it up, turn it upside down and stablize it so itll straighten out when you hit it with a hammer.

Did the same with mine.  Started tipping and held onto it for as long as I could before I had to set it down.   I had motovation frame sliders, as well as front and rear axle sliders.  Little scuff on the frame slider but still bent the brake lever.  I bent it back with my hands no problem and you can't really tell.

Mine got pushed over at work. Bent the brake pedal and scratched up the handle bar end. (I now have a whole bag of those :-) ) Anyway, i removed the pedal and carefully straightened it out on an arbor press. Also had to straighten out the brake light switch pin. When I went to put it all back together I noticed that there was some aluminum in the threads of the pivot bolt which was also bent by the way. Well it turns out the threads for the pivot bolt are compromised. The pivot stays in place, for now, but i will have to remove the part it bolts into and install an insert or possibly drill all the way through and make a new pivot with longer threads and a nut. Bottom line is if this happens to you be aware that the pivot is probably also damaged! My 2 cents...

Don't try to "bend" it back into place. Take it off, no reason to heat it up, smack it with a mallet. I have a dual sided rubber/urethane mallet that works well for this type of thing...

I laid my bike down in an intersection. Tried holding it up to the detriment of my left wrist, but it went over. Only damage was scuffed bar end, bent shifter and bent clutch lever. Hammered the shifter straight, replaced the bar end and gave me an excuse to get some Pazzo levers. Took over a year to heal up the wrist but the bike's as good as new. I counted myself lucky that day because it could have been far worse.

Quote from: Ewicp on July 16, 2009, 08:20:14 AM
Mine got pushed over at work. Bent the brake pedal and scratched up the handle bar end. (I now have a whole bag of those :-) )

Are you serious about a bag of handle bar ends? Mind if I ask where you got them and how much they were. I'm thinking about getting protection there, but if it's cheaper to get a bunch of replacements, maybe that's a better route. I'm hoping that I don't need them, but just in case...

Frame sliders wouldn't help with the pedal. The plastic bar ends are decorative, they melt very easily in a slide.

I just about gave up on the pedal, the slowest/smallest tip over will result in a bent pedal.

 Dropped my bike couple weeks ago, frame sliders saved my frame and engine case and front axle sliders saved my Ohlins forks from damage.  I broke the tip of my clutch lever, scratched my mirror and I bent my new Rizoma shift lever. The damage was easily repaired, not so much if my frame hit the ground or my golden forks.

Each crash is kind of different. I had a weird low side that cracked my front fender, but never touched my front fork sliders. My right frame slider did its job, but the handlebar was bent, the brake pedal and lever were bent, and mirror was scratched. I would say definitely install a set of sliders, I am using Speedymoto because I liked their frame slider design. Then I found out the Spider Grips team used Speedymoto on their Pikes Peak Multistradas.