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#21 |
Viff6N Mutated Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N
Posts: 8,704
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I just wanna put my tongue on that melted plastic.
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#22 |
Trip's Assistant
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Location: Imported from Detroit
Moto: 2009 HD Street Classic
Posts: 12,149
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Yeah WTF Kerry... can't post that shit and not say anything!!
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#23 |
Semi-reformed Squid
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 531
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That was the aftermath of my garage fire which happened in Nov '06 out in NC. Had a fantastic ride up to Shady Vally with Kathy 2-up & some other VFR guys, than around midnight woke to my neighbor banging on my door. I ran outside and saw smoke billowing out the cracks around the doors, and heard fire engines headed my way. Luckily, my house was directly across from a fire hydrant & 2 miles from a big new firehouse. VERY luckily, since there were LOTS of flammables which didn't go up (5/gal can of lacquer thinner, paint reducers, torpedo heater full of kerosene, buddy's truck w/ 30gal of diesel, etc!). Much gratitude to those guys - they hooked up fast & had it out very quickly, and before it turned into a MAJOR weenie-roast which would have rendered most of my stuff unidentifiable, all of it unsalvageable, and destroyed the structure. Still an incredible mess, and a life-changing event which kept me from moving back to Nashville much sooner.
![]() As for the VFR, the plastics were roasted pretty good but it wasn't hurt too much other than cosmetic damage. What really sucked was that the prior spring I had rebuilt it from a crash a couple of years prior, and it was a fantastic 2-up bike which we spent many hours & miles on sharing some incredible rides. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now it was a melted mess, I no longer had a 2-up bike, and I spent the next year consumed with rebuilding the garage damage while the bike just sat forlornly. ![]() ![]() But, eventually the garage was wrapped-up nicely with the help of some outstanding treasured friends... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ...and I got around to doing what I should have done much sooner - moving back to Nashville, and repairing the VFR! Fortunately, I had pulled the Ohlins forks from my RC51 just a couple of weeks before the fire, and they were 'destroyed', but salvageable with plenty of elbow-grease. ![]() |
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#24 |
Semi-reformed Squid
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 531
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Over the winter/early spring of '09 during several trips back to NC for work/rental house stuff, I slowly pieced the front-end conversion together & tended to the cleanup & cosmetic stuff.
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#25 |
Viff6N Mutated Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N
Posts: 8,704
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You just can't let a VFR die. It becomes a part of you. LOL
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#26 |
token jewboy
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: CBR 900, KLR ugly ass duckling, Gas Man
Posts: 10,799
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What caused the fire in the first place?
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#27 |
Semi-reformed Squid
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 531
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Well, the insurance adjuster tried to blame it on a bookshelf stereo system. I think he just went in there looking for a name-brand appliance to try to pin it on so the insurance company could try to go after them. I tend to suspect a raggedy 4-gang lectrical box which my buddy had a halogen light stand plugged into while he was working on his truck - he had been gone for a couple of hours though and the lights were off, so?....
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