buckled shock mount

[Mal S7]

I just went to remove my Hagon shocks and noticed the left shock lower nut, on my R100/7, just touched the muffler.

A closer look and the whole lower mount was buckled and kicked over to the left. (yes a photo would be helpful but a bit busy getting dinner for the kids now)

I've managed to lever and hammer it back upright. The metal tabs are pretty flimsy. I guess its folded from the shocks bottoming out on the great roads we have here in NSW.

Has anyone known this to happen? Is there a permanent fix? I have a spare big tube swing arm that I will fit one day. I didn't notice that BMW beefed up this mount at all.

thanks in advance
Mal

[ME 109]

I've been outdone.

Not sure what to advise Mal, chuckapicup

[Mal S7]

I've been outdone.

Jeez Jeff you just haven't been trying.

I reckon they must have braced em in the later models. The zen master says I need to be more observant.

[Mal S7]

Here you go, for the imagination challenged.



This is AFTER I bashed it straight(er). Still doesn't look great does it. It was folded down and shifted sideways about 1/2 inch.

[ME 109]

That's quite a hit Mal
Must've happened at Nymagee when we took your bike for a spin when youz asleep.


Yer shock isn't seized is it?

[Duane Ausherman]

Wow, never saw that before. Are you sure that it was ok in your past? Could it have been like that when you got it? If it happened on your watch, and you are going to continue of those roads/conditions I would remove and weld on a stronger mount.

[Major Softie]

Wow, never saw that before. Are you sure that it was ok in your past? Could it have been like that when you got it? If it happened on your watch, and you are going to continue of those roads/conditions I would remove and weld on a stronger mount.

Mmmmm, maybe. I'm thinking: whatever shock (sorry) bent that bracket, if you make the bracket strong enough to bend, then that force will be more directly transferred to the swingarm and frame, perhaps then bending one of them. The bracket is designed to be the first thing to fail, thus saving far more expensive components.

Better to bend a bracket.

[Duane Ausherman]

Major makes a good point. I highly suspect that there is some unknown information that would be very useful about now.

[Mal S7]

Wow, never saw that before. Are you sure that it was ok in your past?

Not seen it before Duane? MS? Really? I don't know whether to be impressed .. or worried

I have owned the bike 18 years and I've done about 70K km. It had been round the clock and was half flogged to death by inept POs when I bought it, but that support wasn't like that. I guess it must have happened in the last 10 thousand kms, since I last had the gearbox out. It did take an inebriated slide in the Nymagee mud ... with a portly passenger ..... maybe that pushed the sub-frame sideways?

I will check it out. Fortunately I have a spare sub-frame and swing arm from the S for comparison.

cheers and thanks
Mal

[SteveD]

Ok. Hands up if you've checked your shock mount today!