This is pictures of the engine area and chain of DH's 2006 Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle as it is tonight (more better pics here). He said it went BOOM around the corner from the house, in the subdivision earlier tonight on his way home from meeting us in Suwanee for dinner. He tells me that usually when bikes do this, the rear wheel locks up and flings the rider off the bike. I'm glad to say this was not the case. I'm not glad to say this looks pretty bad. And more than that, pretty expensive. I think one thing that makes it so much worse is that we have plans to go up to Tennessee this coming weekend to go riding (specifically motorcycle riding) in the mountains. The bike shop is closed tomorrow. We'll be lucky if we have the bike back by the time we're supposed to leave on Thursday evening. If we're really lucky it won't cost us thousands of dollars to get it back.Sure we'll still make the trip without the bike. I was planning to take the 2009 MINI Cooper S anyway, with the intention of chasing the bikes through the twisties. I just know that DH was looking forward to riding with his buddy C and vice versa. DH is so sad.
09/22/2009 Update: It got to the bike shop today. More pictures got added to the CrumpledPhoto album after the covers were taken off. It's definitely not looking good and going to require some phone calls to Yamaha. Hope to know more before the end of today.
09/25/2009 Update: I forgot to mention that we got an actual quote on the repairs. $3800. DH has not decided what he wants to do. He did walk down the road in the subdivision and find the missing nut (the one that came off and caused all this) and one of the many chunks of metal that got knocked off. Those can be seen in the pictures. It's a mess.
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