| Author | Message | ||
     Yohinan |
LOL. The poor mans bike stand. One thing I love about this is the height I can get out of my bike. No more sitting on the ground or laying down or kneeling. I can stand and work or sit on a chair. I am still debating on whether I should get some regular stands or not. Also I never noticed it until today when I was snapping pics. See the broken D&D. Time to contact them to see how I can get a replacement. I have not even had it installed for two weeks yet  ( John | ||
| Yohinan |
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| Yohinan |
Here is the broken D&D  | ||
| Hanses25 |
Yohinan you should have seen my improvised bike stand this week. I had to change out my swingarm, it was Ghetto. | ||
| Tomzweifel |
Oh, yeah, looks like the front of the support plate snapped off???? Is the other piece still attached to your chin spoiler by the two screws? What did you hit??? | ||
| Yohinan |
Nope, not still attached. Your going to love this one. I didn't heed the advice of the manual cause I had no thread locker. So I installed the chin fairing anyway. By the time I noticed it hanging there was only one screw left holding it on. Removed the faring and at the time the front of the pipe mount was still there. Took that off about a week ago. When I was pulling off the tires today my wife pointed it out to me. I hadn't even noticed it myself. So it broke off within the last week and the chin fairing was not on when it busted off. With so many having broke off the front of these I would think D&D would go through some kind of update to their product to fix this obvious design flaw. If my new one comes the same as the old I am going to weld in my own gussets to prevent this from happening again. John | ||
| Al_lighton |
John, Lots of D&D's out there. Your's is only the second I've seen with that (or similar) failure. I don't think it is a normal or common failure mode, especially in only two weeks of time. I've got a few customers that ride really hard on D&D's and they haven't broken like that. I think that one must have had a defect. That said, I am surprised that that D&D didn't put the same lip that is on the edge of the rear plate on the front part of the plate as well. Buells have never suffered cantilevers gladly. Al | ||
| Daves |
I have no doubt that D+D will take care of you. I have sold about 70 of their XB pipes and yours is only the 2nd one to break that I know of. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. | ||
| Spyder12s |
my D&D is broke the same ....let me know how you make out with them ..they told me to send them the pipe and they would look at it and see what they could do ... | ||
| Yohinan |
Spyder12s, I hope they don't tell me the same thing. I can't be without my bike. I am going to push for them to send me a replacement with a RMA label in the box and I will just box up the old one and send it back. I am keeping my fingers crossed. Right now this is my only means of transportation. I do still have the stock muff and the race muff so if I have to I can stuff one of them back on but I really don't want too. I will let you know what they say when I get a reply to the email I sent to them. John |
