hawkiii
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Ok, it seems my duct tape reference has raised some questions. Well here it comes.... somewhere along the way to Chicago it appears our rear shock may have failed. Back when we first got the Spyder and our side bags I set the shocks to the maximum setting for performance and because of the weight of loaded bags when riding. Deb would climb up on the back of the Spyder and the seat would basically stay in the same spot. Somewhere between Wyoming and Illinois I remember seeing Deb climb up and the seat dropping down. I didn't think much of it til I noticed the cracks in the supports that hold the rear fender on.
I had seen posts from different folks about this problem but we had never encountered anything like it. While riding one evening one of the folks along for the dinner trip noticed that our back fender was hopping around on the back of the Spyder. We looked at it and I wasn't that worried about it until after we left Deadwood. We were on HWY 85 out of Deadwood heading for I-80 in Cheyenne, WY. The road gets a little rough at times and I started to think about that rear fender.
Well, somewhere outside of Cheyenne we stopped for gas and I decided to check on the fender again. One side had split all the way across.
and the other was almost all the way through. We bought a half roll of duct tape and I slapped a few pieces on trying to minimize the damage. Every stop we made after that was a rear fender check stop. I would apply a little more Duct tape every time we stopped in hopes of keeping the fender from falling off on the road.
We got down to the last night in Salt Lake City. I stared at the fender and what was left of the duct tape. I crossed my fingers and laid out the rest of the duct tape on the fender. The tape stuck and held all the way home. When I went out and looked this morning a bunch of the tape had separated from the Spyder after sitting all night but it held long enough for us to get home.
Thus my praises for the virtues of duct tape. And thank goodness it wasn't the visor repair problem I fixed with the duct tape
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Here are a couple pictures of the problem:
I had seen posts from different folks about this problem but we had never encountered anything like it. While riding one evening one of the folks along for the dinner trip noticed that our back fender was hopping around on the back of the Spyder. We looked at it and I wasn't that worried about it until after we left Deadwood. We were on HWY 85 out of Deadwood heading for I-80 in Cheyenne, WY. The road gets a little rough at times and I started to think about that rear fender.
Well, somewhere outside of Cheyenne we stopped for gas and I decided to check on the fender again. One side had split all the way across.
and the other was almost all the way through. We bought a half roll of duct tape and I slapped a few pieces on trying to minimize the damage. Every stop we made after that was a rear fender check stop. I would apply a little more Duct tape every time we stopped in hopes of keeping the fender from falling off on the road.
We got down to the last night in Salt Lake City. I stared at the fender and what was left of the duct tape. I crossed my fingers and laid out the rest of the duct tape on the fender. The tape stuck and held all the way home. When I went out and looked this morning a bunch of the tape had separated from the Spyder after sitting all night but it held long enough for us to get home.
Thus my praises for the virtues of duct tape. And thank goodness it wasn't the visor repair problem I fixed with the duct tape
.Here are a couple pictures of the problem:
hyea:
