You ever thought about investing in some crash knobs? When I dropped my bike they saved my bike from a lot of damage.

I've already got new gauges in (housing, bulbs, & everything!) from an '07 F but I'm considering sending them back to go ahead & put in digital gauges. I'll have to splice in the tach wire to wherever the hell it goes for an electrical tach in order to keep all the trim & condition of the gauges matching, so I figure if I have to do that I may as well just go ahead & go full on digital with an Acewell or Vapor or something.

And eventually I'm probably going to order the SW-Motech engine guard. It would go well with the sport-touring look I'm going for with this bike, & I've heard nothing but good things about it.