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Sorry to hear of this and am glad you are OK. ending up with your head through the windshield sounds very scary. My best wishes for whatever you decide to do about another bike or not for the future.

I thought of the sand thing but that technique only works for thinner walled tubing. I bent mine down to the point where it was just about to flatten, even when it was being held in a carved out wooden jig. The difference is that I now have better rear vision, but not the best. The mirrors are...

I've got Quadlock mounts on both my bikes, the Svart and a Triumph Tiger 900. Both are mounted with the handlebar mount and on the Tiger I also have the Motorcycle Knuckle Adapter. I previously had the Tiger setup on my Indian. I've ridden some very rough roads and the mount has shown it's...

If you look at the third pic from the OP you'll see that the stain is on the seam and not that hole. The seam might indicate that the portion with the round hole is an outer shell that is welded to the body of the chamber. There is no problem with riding the bike. Think of the number of cars...

I checked my bike - 2021 model - and it doesn't have any notch on the risers.

When fuel is burnt it produces water vapour - this is invisible and exits the pipe with all other gases. However, if the pipe is cold it will condense, which is why you see steam (condensed water vapour) or even dribbles of water coming from a cold startup. My concern is that you have a hole in...

You'd need to check that by measuring. Mine doesn't seem to have an obvious notch - I'll check later as I'm about to go out. I'm going on the info in the manual - Part 11 is Tuning the Chassis and 11.6 is handlebar position

I bought my bike on 1st April. They don't even have April on their chart. Perhaps I'm no more than a character in somebody's else's dreams and imagination. o_O

It's tricky trying to compare car and bike gear changes. The gearboxes of cars and bikes are very different and bad clutchless shifting has different consequences. Cars have synchromesh boxes where the teeth of the gears have to slide into each other with every gear change. There are synchro...

My 2021 bike does not have the lines of the part number, and the logo is done in dark smoke rather than white so it's all very muted in comparison. There are two adjustments of the bars. The first is to rotate them, The second is to reverse the risers. The centre line of the bars does not sit...

I managed to bend them down and will try them out tomorrow. To bend them I made up a wooden jig. I drilled into a solid block of timber with drills that matched the size of the tube and the narrower threaded portion. At the top of the hole I used a burr to round off the edge so it locked in...

I suspect the very thick wall of the mirror stem will deform the plastic bottle before it bends.

I've got 1200 kms on my Svart 401 and have the same problem, as do many others. So many, in fact, that there is a company who sells an aftermarket shift mechanism for the bike. Inside the right side case there is a star shaped piece with a wheel on a sprung lever. Each gear position is locked...

Thanks for the Kiwav link. The style you have is now only available in chrome or blue, but they have several others that I'm checking out. I like the hinge at the base.

Nope. :( It's mostly a case that if I ask enough mates I find someone who has what I need. A lot of my tools have ended up in my son's shed as he's more likely to be using them than me.

I know a lot of people swap out their stock mirrors for bar-end etc but I'm generally OK with the stock, except I'd like them a few inches wider. I thought I might be able to bend them down a bit so they come out a little wider. I took off a mirror to see what it's made of. It's a thick walled...

That mesh looks like catalytic convertor material. It's typically like a rolled up piece of corrugated cardboard.

Every now and then I get on Royal Jordanian's youtube channel just to listen to the Nuda. It's among the most fantastic sounding bikes out there.

The bronze is nice but riding a bike that's branded with a clothing logo is not my thing. I have enough trouble finding tee shirts that don't include the logo across the front as if I'm a billboard. In recent years I've had two Indians, and they partner with Jack Daniels each year to produce a...

If you are six feet tall and can't flat foot it I suspect your height is trunk length. That will tend to make any bike look smaller than it really is as your seat to helmet distance will be a bit further than most riders and you will tower over it. The bike looks good in its own right...