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has this happened to anyone and were you able to bend it back, mine has bent about and pushed about 20mm to the left.
Bike fell over and bent the top screen bracket
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Remove the screen before trying to bend it back. A jolt will push it across, but if you pull against the bracket with the plastic conected to it.... it will crack
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is the bottom bracket strong enough to bend the top bracket, as the top bracket bolts on to the bottom brackets with the adjustor screws?
Bottom bracket/plate unlikely to have bent - it's steel whereas the top bracket is aluminium.
The way i straightened mine ....
Lay it flat on a piece of card, on a surface with the feet overhanging the edge, then draw round it. Turn it over and do the same again, then draw a new position to show where it should be! It's fairly easy to bend but ideal to clamp lightly in a vice. Get it to match the new drawing, then ..... offer it up to both the screen and bike mounting points independently to determine whether you've got the shape and the foot spacing correct.
Stu.
The way i straightened mine ....
Lay it flat on a piece of card, on a surface with the feet overhanging the edge, then draw round it. Turn it over and do the same again, then draw a new position to show where it should be! It's fairly easy to bend but ideal to clamp lightly in a vice. Get it to match the new drawing, then ..... offer it up to both the screen and bike mounting points independently to determine whether you've got the shape and the foot spacing correct.
Stu.
red line
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trying to find a part number for the part that slips into the bottom bracket where the screan bolts on to. the parts fiche i have shows its part 8, but there is no part number
http://www.maxbmwmotorcycles.com/fiche/DiagramsMain.aspx?vid=51732#PartsList
http://www.maxbmwmotorcycles.com/fiche/DiagramsMain.aspx?vid=51732#PartsList
red line
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just found it 46 63 7 694 710
A guy I met in Italy last year had done exactly the same thing. He bought a new one and it was horrendously expensive....about £190 if I recall.
So if you can 'bend it back' go for it.
Mike
So if you can 'bend it back' go for it.
Mike
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Exactly the same thing happened to me. Bike fell and the screen landed on the bumper of my car 
. I just took the bar off and bent it straight over my knee. It is soft aluminium and straightened easily. The paint cracked off around the area of the bend but it hardly notices behind the Zumo bracket and won't rust. The screen had a couple of crazes around the mounting holes from the strain of taking the weight of the bike but has not got any worse since.
. I just took the bar off and bent it straight over my knee. It is soft aluminium and straightened easily. The paint cracked off around the area of the bend but it hardly notices behind the Zumo bracket and won't rust. The screen had a couple of crazes around the mounting holes from the strain of taking the weight of the bike but has not got any worse since.
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Sell it quick.
It's almost certainly an insurance write-off.
It's almost certainly an insurance write-off.
red line
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i think that will be worse, as they are stronger, the screan has more chance of cracking than the OEm ones which will just break
red line
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yeah, tried last night with just hands and bent back nicely, not completely straight as i need to wait for spare part for lower bracket
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