Why I like naked bikes

[Two dogs]

Doing a little repair project for a mate who dropped his 848 at Wakefield
low sided @ 140 when his front wheel let go.
Frame sliders helped but a naked bike would of faired better IMO
Lucky for Billie(Rob S will remember him) most of the damage to his body was bruising and torn leathers .
The bike did not fair so well hence my favour.
Along with the race fairing's obvious damage which I am repairing for him he snapped the weld holding his expensive bling rear sets 
damaging the frame which still may be a right off now destined forever to be a $18,000 track bike  .
some pics below of the repair in progress.

[suzyj]

That's a big job.

I swore off fairings (and four cylinder motors) while changing the plugs on my old across.  Took half a bloody day, in between pulling the bloody fairing off and fabricating a tool to get to an almost completely inaccessible plug.

Besides, any excuse to get the gear off...

[mattyvas]

OUCH!
I feel hurt just looking at it.

[FIFO]

I like my women Bikes naked too

[sydmonster]

oh the double meanings in all of this 

glad to hear your mate is ok, and thats a nice project!

[Jukie]

yes i do like to be naked

[ungeheuer]

yes i do like to be naked

Meh.... Photos or it never happened.. 

[Jukie]

I'll pm you some later Unge

[FIFO]

I'll pm you some later Unge

  Me too!;D

[CairnsDuc]

Last job I did before leaving the Ducati dealer up here in Cairns was to quote on an 848 that was thrown down
the road, mainly cosmetic damage, I got to nearly $14000 plus labour.

But the second the Insurance Bloke spotted the bent brackets for the Rearsets, he wrote it off.

It would appear the Rearset brackets Bend/Break very easily on the 848's

[Mr.S2R]

yeah whilst fairings are nice and comfy to hide behind nothing like getting out there in the wind and being buffeted on the chest - grrrrr!!! real men (and ladies on this forum) ride naked!!  [moto] (well not literally there are safety concerns and I love my epidermis and do not love skin graphs and recently there are very good examples of people wearing good protective gear on this forum too!  ) ok disclaimer finished!

I remember once at at Malalla (small goat track 45 mins out of Adelaide  ) I guy took his CBR1000 - road registered - out on a track day - he low sided scratched his fairings, and took off the lower footpegs on the left side.  the bike made it's way very quickly on to a bike trailer and under a tarp.  Fast forward a couple of months same guy has a new CBR1000 plus matching track bike!  Seems the insurance company wrote the bike off for what I considered cosmetic damage.  How easily it adds up! 

[Dockstrada]

Sometimes fairing is a good thing,who knows where the handlebar would have gone if the tail piece wasn't there   

[Mr.S2R]

Sometimes fairing is a good thing,who knows where the handlebar would have gone if the tail piece wasn't there   

I will admit I am a person that can grasp the majority of concepts, but can you explain to me how the tail piece would of prevented the handlebar doing damage?

[Yellow Meanie]

Someone else's handlebar? Heading in the direction of "a place the sun don't shine".   

[CairnsDuc]

Now, your going to feel a pinch