Notice anything wrong in these pictures?

[Cornholio]

:thinking:

http://psychobike.com/iB_html/uploads/post-1-37465-J_2.JPG

http://psychobike.com/iB_html/uploads/post-1-37414-J_1.JPG

http://psychobike.com/iB_html/uploads/post-1-37536-J_3.JPG

That had to be one hell of a ride!

[rideboy5]

yea, it looks like your chains a wee bit slack. I think if you just tighten the tensioners a little, you should be just fine :impaired:

[Jane Honda]

Looks like the wheel is off the axle too, and totally rubbing against the swingarm.

[Nicegy525]

Swingarm is pretty fubar. Ive never seen tires like that before. Looks like theyre covered in mud and gravel. Is that a stretched swingarm?

[Kelbor]

Is that a legal liscense plate mount? Looks like 'suprman' is 'lucky man'. I always wondered about the structual integrity of those stretched swing arms.

[speedracer42]

That must be a cheap ****ty swing arm or there was some other catastrophic failure that contributed to the bending. Niceguy those are sportbike drage tires. Probably picked up alot of "marbles" from the side of the track when they pulled off.

[Skipbo]

Ok, here's what I see..

** 3rd picture **
1) left side of swingarm.
No axle adjustment bolt/washer (look near the cotter pin)

2) right side of swingarm..
Rear axle placed into 3rd hole (furthest back) so therefore the bike didn't track straight..??


** 1st picture **
could that axle even be mounted in the 1st hole (most forward of the 3)..?? Is the axle even long enough..??


It looks like the bike had a case of serious "crabwalking".. That happens to 18-wheeler trailers when drivers
run over curbs (mis-aligning the tandems).


:thinking:

[Willixer600]

I want to turbo my bike!!!!!!!!!!! Hahaha right....... looks like a bad install on the swing arm. I wounder if cycle sports did that?? hahaha J/K relax.

[RockstEdy]

I say dood was doing a burnout....too much power from the turbo and the swingarm bent because of the crazy power :eek2:

[parallax]

hey, lt,looks like the axle bolt broke and tensioner bolt on left side went missing,a product of all that fun tire smoking horsepower, it is probably one of the hollow racing axle bolts( i broke a axle bolt one time on a kx500 right after the landing on a jump)..needless to say my back tire departed the bike and i gotta bunch of cool scars from the post landing crash :popcorn:

[Cornholio]

Even the owner's not sure what exactly happened yet. He bought the 'arm from a guy that has built dozens of other extended arms. What a couple people on that board think is that the bolt tore the threads out of the adjusting block and that allowed the axle to move forward and then tweak the 'arm.

[Cornholio]

Ive never seen tires like that before. Looks like theyre covered in mud and gravel. Is that a stretched swingarm?
The tire is a Shinko. The tire originally was a Yokohoma 003 and back in the mid 90's we used to run 160/60's on a 5.5" - 6.5" wheel and really flatten them out to make great DOT legal drag tires. After the Kobe, Japan earthquake flattened their factory Yokohoma got out of the motorcycle tire business. Shinko bought the molds a while later because there was still a big demand for the tires and the prices for remaing stock went through the roof, from $90 each to over $400 in just a few months. For the price they're great drag tires and quite a bit cheaper than a Mickey Thompson shootout tire.

All that gravel is just from the tire being hot from the burnout and then being rolled through the gravel. Go to a dragstrip and look at the tires of the cars in the pits. They'll all have pebbles stuck to them too.

And the swingarm is definitely stretched. I'm guessing it's probably 12" over .

[parallax]

oh i see it now, the milled tensioner block on the left side is pulled into the square tubing of the swingarm from the force of the chain,thats why it looks like it is missing, looks like a poor design. :iorun:

[Buck-O]

oh i see it now, the milled tensioner block on the left side is pulled into the square tubing of the swingarm from the force of the chain,thats why it looks like it is missing, looks like a poor design. :iorun:


:werd:

That is exactly what happened.


Very Poor design. I know its lightweight and all, but there should be SOME redundancy there. At the very least a stop in the axel shouding to prevent the asjustment block from launching throughthe tubing like that.