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[MARTIN H]

Bad luck Ian, was just telling Gizmo last night that a similar thing happened to me!

I have put a new front tyre on the Multistrada and managed to drop the bike on the floor! I did that stupid thing where after lowering the front I let the bike down on the rear paddock stand and sort of let the bike flop down on to the sidestand if you know what I mean? However this time I had forgot to put the sidestand down! Horrible feeling as the bike falls past where it should be with the stand down and just carrys on all the way to the floor! ****! I was quite lucky actually as I had just placed a small mattress to sit on like you get on a camp bed type thing on that part of the floor! So the bike actually landed on that! Weird as it made virtually no noise as it landed. I had to laugh and then I picked the bike up and sure enough the gear levers bent, and then I noriced a 3 inch scratch next to the headlight where it had just very lightly skimmed the edge of my air compressor! Bugger!

Taken lever off today and got it pretty much as it should be (I heated up first) and it seems ok. No doubt it will snap when I am about 3000 miles from home?