Here's one for either the great minds of the V-Strom Owners Site UK or possibly the Famous Five (there'll be lashings of ginger beer in it for someone!)
So, after trying unsuccessfully to determine what is causing a really loud vibration sound (see
here for details) I was starting to think I would have to take it somewhere for a mechanic to figure it out. Then as I was walking away from the bike I noticed that my Suzuki crash bars had snapped, or sheared off, or whatever the correct terminology is for it. Here are a couple of pics...
Now... what the devil has happened to my crash bars???
As far as I'm aware, the bike has never been dropped... though I guess it's possible that someone messed around with it, dropped it and picked it up while I wasn't looking and it was parked somewhere. But if that was the case, you'd imagine there would be other scratches/scuffs on the bars or the bike itself and I can't see any. So has it just randomly snapped of its own accord at some point... does that sort of thing happen?? I have very little knowledge of metalwork and such things, but I didn't think metal tended to just break randomly like that?
Or did ghosts do it? Or gremlins? Or pixies?? What's going on???
So does anyone know what could have happened here and whether, if they did break magically by themselves, they're covered under my warranty considering the bike was supplied with them fitted?