Seen this GS today on the Tenere forum. Ooops...

Heavy landing after a wheelie?
 
Wtf happened there!!


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Must have hit a hard edge or something, even a pothole. The rim has clear sign of impact


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Pretty sure I’ve seen that before. It hit a car I believe at a junction. The other pictures showed it in situ alongside the car.
 
And just wait , it will be rider error, accident damage, alien intervention, sabotage by KTM but never,never, never a problem with either BMW design or a lapse in build quality
 
spoonz said:
Pretty sure I’ve seen that before. It hit a car I believe at a junction. The other pictures showed it in situ alongside the car.
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Guy who took photo said he saw it today and there was some rim damage but not that much. Still it’s clear that the suspension link could not take the impact and just split..


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Osprio said:
Guy who took photo said he saw it today and there was some rim damage but not that much. Still it’s clear that the suspension link could not take the impact and just split..


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Looks very similar to the one on here a month or so ago but not sure if that was a 1250. If you look at the close up pic the linkage is intact it is the bolt that has failed or come undone. The rim looks split so must have been a big impact like a kerb etc.

I suspect the rim damage came first as he/she couldn’t have continued at all if the bolt failed first to then hit a kerb.
 
Osprio said:
Must have hit a hard edge or something, even a pothole. The rim has clear sign of impact


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Maybe he did hit a rock/kerb/pothole, but I wouldn’t have expected a blow that caused a relatively minor ding in the rim to cause the lower suspension link to have such a catastrophic failure.
 
longdog said:
Maybe he did hit a rock/kerb/pothole, but I wouldn’t have expected a blow that caused a relatively minor ding in the rim to cause the lower suspension link to have such a catastrophic failure.
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Like @sponz says, this picture bears a remarkable similarity to a picture that was circulated a while back. The bike hit a car, and they even showed a picture of the car. The dent in the rim came from the bike hitting the side of the car, and the impact broke the lower balljoint, as is also seems to be the case for this bike.

The balljoint don't just fail out of the blue. It takes a hefty lateral force to brake it. Whatever broke it, it will not brake by merely driving the bike and hit a bump. The bike needs a lateral force such as from a sudden stop.
 
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