I have a couple of things to do to the GS

[moe_tunes]

I was trying to avoid an accident happening in front of me and ended up clipping the back corner of a tip truck. The bike and I went down and under the front wheel of the tip trucks trailer and were dragged down the highway.  The back wheel is buckled and gouged, the axle head is ground down, the swingarm is crushed at the ends and bent, there's some plastic damage and the footrest hanger and shifter are bent from the trailer wheel rolling on them.

At first I thought the exhaust was bent into the wheel but when I could move around a bit again I put the bike on the center stand and it was obvious the swingarm is bent.



I am suprised the rest of the bike is ok. Front wheel, forks, handlebars, engine and frame are unscathed. The bar end mirror doesn't have a scratch on it. So with a replacement swingarm and back wheel, some hammering and plastic welding it should be ok for the road again. I just need to be a bit more mobile to start that.
Meanwhile if someone around South East Queensland has a back wheel and/or/ swingarm or a parts bike I know a bloke that's looking

Cheers

[herennow]

Sorry to hear that, good luck getting it all back together. Are you OK?

 I had a front ender when someone cut me off. I got new forks, sidestand, footpeg mount handlebar etc slowly for ebay ad got it back together.

[DarkCyDE]

Just glad you survived even if your bike didnt fare so well.
You might want to take a hard look at the frame as well. Best of luck with your repairs

[moe_tunes]

Sorry to hear that, good luck getting it all back together. Are you OK?

 I had a front ender when someone cut me off. I got new forks, sidestand, footpeg mount handlebar etc slowly for ebay ad got it back together.

So far I am 13 weeks on crutches with a badly broken tibia, suprisingly there was very little other damage.
There is an OK motorbike wreckers near me that I'll hit up for the parts. I do like to see and touch what I am buying before handing over cash...

Cheers

[moe_tunes]

Normally with the GS on the centrestand there is about 15mm between the tyre and the ground so I shove a 19mm thick fence paling under the tyre which makes removing and replacing the rear axle super easy. In its' current configuration with the swingarm bent the tyre is hard on the ground so I expected removing the rear axle to be a battle but it ended up being relatively easy.
I removed the rear wheel to make sure there was no load on the swingarm so I could see if the swingarm shaft was hard to remove due to a bent frame or not. It came out easy so the frame isn't bent in a way that binds the swingarm shaft. That makes me happy to continue with the repairs

Here is a pic of my improvised mechanics seat (Not Recommended)