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mudplug · Post by **mudplug** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:58 pm

First off it's NOT my bike but I have just seen this on another post and it scared the pants off me, apparently the guy was riding down the road and felt the steering a bit strange so started to brake and slow down, He never got to a stop because this happened!! Looking closely at the front you can see where the front forks have sheared right off, imagine if that happened at 70+

ct1500 · Post by **ct1500** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:56 pm

mudplug wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:58 pm First off it's NOT my bike but I have just seen this on another post and it scared the pants off me, apparently the guy was riding down the road and felt the steering a bit strange so started to brake and slow down, He never got to a stop because this happened!! Looking closely at the front you can see where the front forks have sheared right off, imagine if that happened at 70+

Sure looks like that front wheel rear ended another vehicle and I would expect a casting to break under those forces. One big rim dent in front and another behind when the front end folded. Whether tubes or cast forks does not make a difference no one is gonna ride that kind of impact out, you going down.

Sadanorakman · Post by **Sadanorakman** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:01 pm

Whoahhh. Let's hope just a one-in-ten-thousand bad casting, but you'd think they would be ultrasonically tested for integrity/critical flaws in production.
Didn't BMW have some failures similar to this with their cantilever front suspension? I think that might have been corrosion at the bottom of the forks though?

Ghostman · Post by **Ghostman** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:27 pm

Theses pics and story are on the other Goldwing site and supposedly he had an accident and rear ended a car. The steering didnt just fail and break. This was over in Europe and if you look at the front wheel you can see how bad the damage was besides the bike.If youre going to spread a story get the facts right.

mudplug · Post by **mudplug** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:51 am

Ghostman, good on you for discovering what happened but do NOT accuse me of spreading stories, I posted what I saw and what I read on a site and shared it. I did NOT invent it and as you say you have seen it on many sites so why did YOU not put it up? In future anything I see or read I shall not bother to post on here no matter how interesting I feel it may be because I don't like to be accused of "Spreading Stories".

AZgl1800 · Post by **AZgl1800** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 2:21 am

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it happened in Afghanistan, and he hit something darn hard.

blow up the pix of the wheel six times, you can see daylight thru both sides of the rim where it was rolled back on both sides.

I wonder if that bike had been a 2017 or earlier with forks on it, if the engine might have been saved?

dingdong · Post by **dingdong** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:55 am

Just WOW! Look at the surface area at the break in the fork. Not much holding that together. Especially for the forces involved at the "fork". IMHO a defect in design.

landisr · Post by **landisr** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:51 am

I'm quite shocked at what appears to be such a narrow cross section of material, although I don't know anything about metallergy and am confident they thoroughly tested these forks.

Ron in AZ

Ravyn · Post by **Ravyn** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:43 am

mudplug wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:58 pm First off it's NOT my bike but I have just seen this on another post and it scared the pants off me, apparently the guy was riding down the road and felt the steering a bit strange so started to brake and slow down, He never got to a stop because this happened!! Looking closely at the front you can see where the front forks have sheared right off, imagine if that happened at 70+ 38794516_1194447207365046_8735058457440288768_n.jpg38856440_1194446927365074_1767692111060140032_n.jpg

I don't think something like this going to happen when you are just riding down the road and feel something strange. It looks to me like he hit something dang hard. Where did you find this article ? Post the whole story man !

Ravyn · Post by **Ravyn** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:50 am

Sadanorakman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:01 pm Whoahhh. Let's hope just a one-in-ten-thousand bad casting, but you'd think they would be ultrasonically tested for integrity/critical flaws in production.
Didn't BMW have some failures similar to this with their cantilever front suspension? I think that might have been corrosion at the bottom of the forks though?

BMW had some problems with the Ball Joint failing on the cantilever front suspension and some of the rear aluminum one sideded swing arms would just break off. So far Honda hasn't had any problem with there alumium swing arm on the 1800. I have never been a fan of cantilever suspension, especially if it pivots on a ball.

DenverWinger · Post by **DenverWinger** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:11 am

I saw this posted originally over on Saunder's site with a link to an article with a bunch of pictures. I just went to Saunder's to copy the link to the story, but it appears the site is down right now, will have to get the link later...

AZgl1800 · Post by **AZgl1800** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:59 am

DenverWinger wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:11 am I saw this posted originally over on Saunder's site with a link to an article with a bunch of pictures. I just went to Saunder's to copy the link to the story, but it appears the site is down right now, will have to get the link later...

I have all the pix posted in an Album here

https://imgur.com/a/b4NdLlY

Ravyn · Post by **Ravyn** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:07 am

Does anybody know what he hit and how fast he was going ??

DenverWinger · Post by **DenverWinger** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:08 am

John, ya beat me to it. And appears Saunder's site wasn't down, I had local DNS issues here, running on WiFi for the moment. I plugged 8.8.8.8 into the DNS server config and things are working now... Funny how I could get to Goldwingdocs but not Goldwingfacts...

AZgl1800 · Post by **AZgl1800** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:02 am

Ravyn wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:07 am Does anybody know what he hit and how fast he was going ??

that first showed up on Facebook, and like all FB posts, nothing is ever provided in the way of "full disclosure".... just those damn incomplete headlines to sucker you into "click bait"

Ravyn · Post by **Ravyn** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 5:01 pm

AZgl1800 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:02 am
Ravyn wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:07 am Does anybody know what he hit and how fast he was going ??
that first showed up on Facebook, and like all FB posts, nothing is ever provided in the way of "full disclosure".... just those damn incomplete headlines to sucker you into "click bait"

Yeah, I don't ever do facebook !

AZgl1800 · Post by **AZgl1800** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:23 pm

Ravyn wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 5:01 pm
AZgl1800 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:02 am
Ravyn wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:07 am Does anybody know what he hit and how fast he was going ??
that first showed up on Facebook, and like all FB posts, nothing is ever provided in the way of "full disclosure".... just those damn incomplete headlines to sucker you into "click bait"
Yeah, I don't ever do facebook !

I wouldn't either if it weren't for not being able to stay in contact with Family, and forum members who just don't bother to visit our forums anymore.....

the Smartphone and Facebook has just about killed good forums.
The family type atmosphere we used to have is just about gone all together.
we don't see the casual chit chat we used to.

Viking · Post by **Viking** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:22 am

It is strange, but the rest of the bike, like both sides, do not appear to have suffered any damage. How the heck would the bike not go over on its side and slide? Well, probably by stopping dead when it ran into an immovable object. If the forks had just broken off like that, and bashed in the front of the motorcycle, no rider on earth could have kept it upright. This was not likely a manufacturing defect. No pics available of the owner/operator.

seelyark1 · Post by **seelyark1** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:25 am

I don't suspect that he was going that fast, as the wind screen is still intact from what I can see. Surely the rider would have been thrown forward. And the oil on the road makes it look as though it was pushed to the curb. We will probably never know what really happened. That front wheel surely took an impact.

AZgl1800 · Post by **AZgl1800** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:33 pm

seelyark1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:25 am I don't suspect that he was going that fast, as the wind screen is still intact from what I can see. Surely the rider would have been thrown forward. And the oil on the road makes it look as though it was pushed to the curb. We will probably never know what really happened. That front wheel surely took an impact.

that is not oil, it is coolant from the radiator.

what does surprise me though, is the Air Bag did not deploy?

doxbike · Post by **doxbike** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:10 am

Doesn't look like an air bag model-different paint scheme?

someone548 · Post by **someone548** » Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:16 pm

mudplug wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:51 am Ghostman, good on you for discovering what happened but do NOT accuse me of spreading stories, I posted what I saw and what I read on a site and shared it. I did NOT invent it and as you say you have seen it on many sites so why did YOU not put it up? In future anything I see or read I shall not bother to post on here no matter how interesting I feel it may be because I don't like to be accused of "Spreading Stories".

This.

WTH Ghostman? Bad day or something? He clearly had no intent of spreading false stories.

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