I win the gold medal idiot award !

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Cannot believe I have been so stupid...............

Took the back wheel out of my 1200GS because of a puncture. While I was at it I thought I would clean up the back end of the bike that you cannot normally get to with the wheel in.

Then because it was a bit gloomy in the garage I decided I would push the bike outside to see a bit more cleary. A senior moment and you guessed it straight off the stand onto the ground with no back wheel in !

Sitting there resting on rear disc, had to somehow prop the bike up and get a neighbour to help me lift it back onto the stand. Told you it was gold medal award level.

Just wondering now what damage could have been done. Put the wheel back in and it seems to spin ok and disc looks ok for runout.

Does this episode put extra pressure on the drive shaft ?
 
Backroader said:
Does this episode put extra pressure on the drive shaft ?
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I doubt it, the rear wheel and the brake disk are attached through the same alloy mounting flange, which then turns the rear axle spindle.

Remove the rear wheel again and inspect the rear disk mounting lugs on the alloy wheel/disk carrier for cracks where the disk bolts penetrate. Also check the disk for cracks, damage and runout.
 
Ummmmmmm .... Yep, having put diesel in my bike last month I thought I owned the gold idiot award ... but yer might have just pipped me at the post there .... :thumb :D
 
Yep ... I'll take that one on the chin .... :D
 
Backroader said:
Cannot believe I have been so stupid...............

Took the back wheel out of my 1200GS because of a puncture. While I was at it I thought I would clean up the back end of the bike that you cannot normally get to with the wheel in.
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You should have settled for bronze................... :rob

A moment's lack of concentration - easily done, not so easily admitted to :thumb2

Al :comfort
 
No no no no ....

That would make me more stupid ...

Backroader is far more of a klutz than me ... :D
 
Gundog said:
This is a joke right ?
Nobody could be that stoopid :blast

:rolleyes:
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There is a picture somewhere on this site, of a bloke who had both wheels out at the same time, and the whole plot fell onto the deck !!!.....

I think that it was an 1150ADV.....HEAVY.......:eek
 
I once took the front suspension out without putting any weight on the rear / or putting a jack under the belly pan :blast

I got half way across the garage before the front folded and realised what I had done :tears
 
Giles said:
Ummmmmmm .... Yep, having put diesel in my bike last month I thought I owned the gold idiot award ... but yer might have just pipped me at the post there .... :thumb :D
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I cant belive your abmitting to this. :blast

I detect some ribbing coming your way. :D
 
Backroader said:
Cannot believe I have been so stupid...............

Took the back wheel out of my 1200GS because of a puncture. While I was at it I thought I would clean up the back end of the bike that you cannot normally get to with the wheel in.

Then because it was a bit gloomy in the garage I decided I would push the bike outside to see a bit more cleary. A senior moment and you guessed it straight off the stand onto the ground with no back wheel in !

Sitting there resting on rear disc, had to somehow prop the bike up and get a neighbour to help me lift it back onto the stand. Told you it was gold medal award level.

Just wondering now what damage could have been done. Put the wheel back in and it seems to spin ok and disc looks ok for runout.

Does this episode put extra pressure on the drive shaft ?
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Yes a complete
 

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Blackal said:
A moment's lack of concentration - easily done, not so easily admitted to :thumb2
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Well as I now don't own my GS any more , I can man up and say I did the same thing to mine (I didn't have the guts to admit it on here at the time and tbh until I saw this thread had forgotten I had done that) However it was not an Olympic Year when I did mine so I guess I don't get joint gold.

I did manage to get it back on the centre stand without needing to bother my neighbour (not that he could take the piss too much as he dropped his 1150GS Adv during a side stand moment in his garage and I helped him about a year earlier)

It did take a huge amount of planning to get it back on the stand without help using more than one car jack and some axle stands and blocks of wood.

With regards damage, I checked for a warped disk etc and after that whenever I took the wheel off I checked for cracks forming near the disk mount bolts (as these have been known to crack without a drop onto the disk) however never saw any issues (no warping, no cracks, no oil leaks etc)

I have no idea what mileage I had done at the time so can only guess at approx 1/3 of the way through the 45,000 miles that were on it when I sold it. (which I think is more mileage than some have had out of the final drive even without a drop)
 
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