i'm not sure if i named the topic correctly, so here goes the question.  let me pre-empt it that the bike has gone down on the right side going maybe 5 miles per hour.  so the thing i'm concerned about is that my flanders handle bars hit the tank on the left side and not the right side.  i've measured them and they are centered.  (at least i'm pretty sure they are from my measurements.)  anyway, i've stood it up and centered the bars then measured from the stop welded to the center neck to the stop on the forks.  looks like the distance is a few mm closer on the left side.  
is there a way i can straighten this up like on a regular bicycle or could i be looking at a bigger problem like bent forks.  i looked down the forks and from what i can tell they are straight.  but i am no expert.
any advice?

You may have  bent the tab on the neck - not likely though. It's near impossible to hurt the stops on the lower triple. Are you sure the bars aren't bent? That's the most logical solution. You may have tweaked a fork tube, but if the bike just dropped on it's side, I doubt it. If the forks are very slightly bent you probably won't be able to tell without pulling the tubes. I doubt you could eyeball a minor  bend like that. My money is on the bars. If you have them, throw your stock bars back on and see if they hit. If not, you're good. If they do, you have a bigger problem.

the bars on there now are the replacement bars from the accident. the accident was at low speed in a parking lot.  an suv tried to squeeze by me while i was looing for a spot and their back end caught my right handle bar and took me down.  the issue isn't too big of a deal since my leaky tank isn't the one i'm keeping, but i'm hoping to find the culprit before i get my other tank painted.  i'm not sure if i'm game to pull the forks out.  i don't think i have the equipment, especially since i took the centerstand off.  i'll have to do a search on what all that entails.  

(anybody want to trade some chrome flanders drag bars ,30 degree bend, for some of srinath's bars?)  he! he!   :mrgreen:

My money is on the bars. They are pretty easy to bend. Also I think it is funny that I actually remember you writing that story in a post along time ago.

sounds to me like a good excuse to scrape some money together for some new bars!

I haven't seen the flanders ones... but the stockers are made of butter. If they have chrome on them look for spots at the bends where the chome has peeled or chipped. Check all the way around thebends... Anyway when tetsing them the stock ones bent with just the weight of the pole we were using for leverage. The contrast was the bars we welded up with a steel rod in the welds had a 200 lb guy on the end of the 8ft pole. Also the 30 dgeree bend I can understand... but it is 8-9 inches wide at the triple and straight back 30 dgerees... wont the bars hit your knees. Mine go forward ~2 inches and then come back ~5... You are right about 2-3 inches behind the triple clamp... and its 35 degrees instead of 30...
Cool.
Srinath.