We are alright, the ST is another story

[AY4B]

On an ST, you really dont need a deep pothole, especially when you are riding 2 up with the extra weight. There is a metal piece that hangs lower than everything else that is part of that mechanism. If you push or pull, I cant remember it instantly drops the floorboard. In a perfect storm, if the dropped floorboard plants, you are launched into the air. It would happen so fast, you wont know for sure how it happened.

 

[Bob Denman]

Just push the brake pedal all the way down, and add a little bit more pressure: it'll drop! :thumbup:

 

[AY4B]

The brass colored piece on the left is the trigger. Push it toward the rear of the bike and the floor will drop.

 

[AY4B]

This is what the floorboard looks like when you pull that trigger which theoretically can be done by the ground in a perfect storm. The black piece of metal is supposed to guard against that.

 

[robmorg]

Glad mine doesn't work.

Just push the brake pedal all the way down, and add a little bit more pressure: it'll drop! :thumbup:

It that's all it takes, I'm glad mine doesn't work. nojoke

Mine has NEVER done that. I've tried to trigger it that way, and even by stomping on the brake pedal, but the floorboard simply won't ever release. OTOH, I can physically reach underneath it and push on the latch and it will drop. I asked my dealer once, when it was in for maintenance, why my break-away floorboard wouldn't break away. They said "everything looked normal". I seem to have plenty of clearance for my brake pedal above the floorboard, and if the fluid gets even a little low, you get all kinds of nasty warnings on the dash display, so I just stopped worrying about it. (If it ever does come unlatched, it'd only drop down about an inch anyway before my REVCO highway peg bar would come to rest on the air deflector in front of the floor board.)

 

[robmorg]

This is what the floorboard looks like when you pull that trigger which theoretically can be done by the ground in a perfect storm. The black piece of metal is supposed to guard against that.

Wow, that is a huge drop - I believe more than on the RT. :shocked: A failure of that mechanism may well have been what happened to otter, if it was the right floorboard that hit.

 

[otter28169]

I looked at the road where I was driving and there is a little bit of a dip where I was when I was going around the "bridge out" sign at the end of our road. I Am 270 pounds and I had my wife on, so we were close to the weight limit, I wonder if that little dip combined with the weight was enough to do it. Typical NY state, all roads are damaged or under construction. I am not certain that the board released, but I do not think it will now. I am gonna let the insurance company deal with it. I am glad we were going slow when it happened though.

Just sayin'...........

 

[robmorg]

...I am glad we were going slow when it happened though.

Yep, that is a VERY good thing. Otherwise it may have been much worse. :sour:

 

[AY4B]

Most of the times I bottomed out, it was the spyderpops skid plate that got the contact. Just that once where the pavement ended and I hit rock road is when I felt contact with my left floorboard. The potholes were hard to see because they were full of water.

 

[Bob Denman]

It seems as if the ST boards do drop lower, that the ones on the RTs... Mine dropped down to about even with the bottom of the air deflector...

 

[FieldTester]

Good Old Murphy, he sure knows when to come around.

Sorry your down for the week, but more important - glad you guys are OK.

 

[Deanna777]

Glad that you guys are ok. Good luck getting the ST fixed.


The roads in VT are just as bad as on the roads in New York. Deanna

 

[Tazzel]

Sounds like a design flaw. Lawsuit in the making? I would get to the bottom of it. Its a good thing you were only going 5mph. You could have been killed. Next ST owner may not be so lucky. Make sure your insurance company takes a hard look at the design to see where the fault maybe. I have 2 very good friends that have the ST.