Originally Posted by lt230sman

oh and atvman, nice writeup on the steering stem replacement!

it reminds me of a race i did last year, when some stupid honda decided to do a backflip in front of me on a hillclimb (well, i was kinda following too close) which resulted in me doing the same. my bars got bent back so far that the rear edge of the steering stem plate (the top piece) put gouges in my plastics above my tank. i bailed (in front of a crowd of 70+ people, of course XD) but got my bike back on all fours and bent the bars back to "kinda straight" right on the spot. my tether killswitch was stuck in the off position so i whipped out a knife and cut one of the wires leading to it (a big no-no according to the AMA haha). First kick my 230 roared to life and i shot up the hill in true suzuki fashion (hahaha) i could hear the crowd cheering and i thought that was kinda cool since i was on a 23 year old 230 while the other 90% of riders were on fancy new 450's and such. anyways, i finished the race and returned to my trailer. while i was strapping the bike down i grabbed a hold of the bars to steady myself, and SNAP! the bars came clean off and i busted my @$$ in front of even more people. i couldnt believe how lucky i was that they didnt let loose in the middle of the race!

from that day on i always check for stress cracks or anything like that before every ride haha...

Originally Posted by gforce34

I can't believe this ****! It snowed yesterday so finally got all my errands done this morning and was all excited to go riding around the neighborhood in the snow and went for like 10 minutes had to come back to the house to grab a different pair of gloves and when I jumped back on the quad and tried to kick start it my steering stem broke. I guess I can be thankfull that I wasn't going 50 mph when it happened.

Originally Posted by atvman29

Its kind of strange that everyone's had broke at a non-riding time!

Edit: That I've heard of.

Originally Posted by JustRandy

You should integrate a warning into the website.

And maybe a "common complaint" or "frequent issues" section.

Originally Posted by atvman29

That could probably be a subsection for help and how-to, you think?

I hate finals, I can't even think straight right now.

5 finals, +1 take home in 3 days.....all cumulative......

I'm about ready to pass out!

It started today w/ Mechanics of Materials, then Algorithms, tomorrow @ 8am, I have Calc 1, then Biology, then the take home Calc 2 test due. Thursday I have the main Calc 2 test. ugh

Originally Posted by JustRandy

You have calc 1 and 2 at the same time? I didn't know you could do that.