Kawasaki ER6-F (First big bike CONFIRMED)

[wr6133]

You can price up oem parts here https://parts-a.kawasaki.eu/kepcc/kepcc?ALIAS=99254&PRODUCTGROUP=MCXR&DISPLACEMENT=501_750&MODELNAME=ER-6F&MODELYEAR=2009_EX650C9F&COLOR=15D&COUNTRY=GB&MACHINE=951

Personally I'd get it home and diy fix with used parts.

[Zen Dog]

This has been a lesson. Learn from it for gods sake, because lessons can come cheaper than this, but they can also be a lot more costly.

Glad you walked away at least.
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Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
My bike trip around S.E. Asia 2010/2011

[Bhud]

When I got my first big bike I had these strange ideas in my head. Those 2 habits both had an imagined ideal at their root, i.e. "the ideal rider should be able to take this [completely unsuitable] road at 50mph+ with the right road positioning and throttle control" and "the ideal rider should be able to get much better acceleration from standstill than I managed [from the last set of lights]", were my bad habits. I can't pinpoint when I stopped doing these things. It just sort of went away.

You live and learn. Lucky it was just an alternator. The gear selection lever can probably be straightened. The plastics don't really matter.

[stinkwheel]

[Keithy]

So, are glad you didn’t spend £12k on a new MT-09 now?

Relieved to hear you are ok

R&G crash bungs ftw!

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

Glad you’re ok!! Literally everyone here has done something stupid to drop their bike - anyone who says otherwise is a lying SoaB

Pick up the bits, fix what’s necessary, and move on
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DILLIGAF

[Weisse Schlange]

Yup, chillax

Just remember that everyone else on the road wants to kill you and you'll be fine. It's a fast way to learn defensive driving for sure.

Learning that you are actually a shit rider until you learn how to ride properly is difficult as it's natural to think you're a riding god or somit.

humble will make sure you get to reach god status.
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Hing Oan

[GettinBetter]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[grr666]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

Just had the garage on the phone they told me it needs:

Generator cover,
Cover gasket,
Stator,
Rotor,
Tyres.

Said all in and using non-Kawasaki stator it would be in the region of £950 - £1,150….

I am thinking they probably thought this would be an insurance job and priced it up like it was. Reason I suspect that is the woman on the phone asked “so it’s not through insurance?”.

All the parts on eBay come in at £305 and change if I go for non Kawasaki parts where possible and use a Renthal handlebar instead of a Kawasaki one.

Guess my best option is to just pay them to deliver the bike back to me and repair it myself? Tyres can wait till MOT time or next month anyway. I also think the current stator and rotor might be fine but they priced it up anyway.
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PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
PAST: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6F. 2021 Zontes ZT-125U.

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

Apologies for double post, but here’s what I can find on eBay so is it worth asking the garage for their labour cost only if I supply the parts?

Parts prices on eBay:

Stator (21003-0042) - £38.93 (New - non-Kawasaki part),
Rotor (21007-0601) - £62.36 (Used - Kawasaki part),
Generator cover (14031-0096) - £67.51 (New - Kawasaki part),
Generator cover gasket (11061-0165) - £5.95 (New - Kawasaki part),
Handlebar (46003-0152-26M) - £54.45 (New - Renthal).

(Part numbers from parts-a.Kawasaki.eu).

Tyres to be deferred to next month:

Pirelli Diablo Rosso II 120/70 ZR17 TL (58W) - £86.89,
Pirelli Diablo Rosso II 160/60 ZR17 TL (69W) - £86.89.

(Tyre sizes from mytyres.co.UK)
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PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
PAST: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6F. 2021 Zontes ZT-125U.

[Bhud]

Doing the work yourself, at home, should be fairly easy and will save you money.

If you decide to give it a go, then check in advance the thread direction of the rotor retaining bolt, as well as its size. You may have to buy a tool to hold it steady. I've got a really good strap wrench tool where the band is actually made of steel, but a cheap strap wrench will probably work fine. Likewise, you may need to make or buy a bolt to remove the rotor. There's a sort of tool you can buy which basically just a bolt, with a bolt inside it. You remove the rotor retaining bolt, then screw on the rotor-lifting tool, and then tighten down on the bolt inside it. This then lifts up the rotor.

The Haynes manual most likely explains a way to remove the rotor with rudimentary tools on that bike. But work out what you would need to do and if it's feasible, before making the jump and relieving the garage of your bike.

[to v or not to v]

[arry]

Dude. Sorry to hear this - lessons learned etc. Go get that extra training we talked about before - it'll be worth the investment.



Anyway, tyres? Hang on, you just bought this from a dealer?



Oh, I spy you've done a fair few miles on it now.... As you were PS: Easily done. I thought tyres were getting low on the BM as I set off for Wales and.... by the time I came back..... Lo and behold!

[arry]

[A100man]

[ThunderGuts]

Other thing, if you're paying for it yourself, how bothered are you about it being factory fresh? If you can live with scuffs then you may as well only change the actually broken bits.
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TG.

[wr6133]

You can fit all that (excluding tyres) yourself fairly easily on a Saturday. Even if you need to buy tools it'll probably be cheaper than a garage and they last a lifetime.

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

Sorry I only took one pic of the damage so I’m not sure if it will help at all:

https://imgur.com/a/9egfMX3

I can accept that the stator might be damaged because it mounts onto the cover itself but the rotor mounts to the engine side and I can’t see any marks, etc on the rotor in the picture on the underside of the rotor which might have made any contact with the ground.
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PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
PAST: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6F. 2021 Zontes ZT-125U.

[ThunderGuts]

Gear lever looks bent?
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TG.

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[UncleFester]

https://www.motea.com/en/sissy-bar-for-harley-davidson-softail-18-21-craftride-tampa-xxl-black-153643-0

and

https://www.pingelonline.com/wheelie-bars/gsxr7500.asp

HTH


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2017 Z1000SX