zing!

 

Actually, its not just this one incident--if u read up on stuntlife.com, its happen to several riders and fucked them up too.

 

God damn you KAWASAKIIIII!

 

it could be worse... you could be riding a Gixxer just doing a regular commute down the road and have the frame crack in half.

 

oh lord, not that again. that only happened to a few pre-production bikes that were on the track. the track puts waaaay more load on things than the street does.

 

That's not entirely true. I've read about it happening to several people, and it happened on the street--not the track. It as only a few instances, but it did happen on the street as well.

 

I don't think coming down from a 12 o'clock ten times an hour then doing endos is what engineers had in mind when designing forks.

And I bet they didn't have the bars straight during those endos putting all the load on the axle mounts on the bottom of the fork, it surely wasn't the bolt that gave in either pic.

 

alright u definitly lost me here

 

I was talking about the handlebars(clip ons in this case) because if they were turned to either side and you are at the peak of your endo with the tail up in the air, those axle/caliper mounts are taking the whole load. In both pics, those show to be the areas of failure.

 

it doesn't matter if the bars are straight or not, all the load is there anyway.