Hey everyone. i'm new to the forum and i got a question regarding my cousins 2 day old YFZ450. He was riding hard today and ramped, landed, and slid into the back of a 18 foot dovetail trailer.
Needless to say the the handlebars where about an inch off center but nothing looked bent.
You think maybe the steering stem could have twisted?

 

who knows, I wrecked mine and bent my steering stem, if it feels really bad you would be able to tell if the stem was bad. I know at a race two weekends ago, me and another guy both wrecked, and we both bent the stem on the YFZ 450

 

I say steering stem, tie rods, or a arm. One of those three is bent.

Buck

 

Yeah, thats what i figured. I just didnt know what the weakest point in the frontend was
now i got a pretty good idea what it is.

 

I'd guess steering stem also. I bent mine. If its the tie rods, you should be able to see the bend pretty easily. I've been riden my bike with the steering stem bent (minerly) for about three months now. It's not bent nearly bad enough for me to justify the $350. for a new one!