So, this last sunday, I replaced the stock rear soft brake line with a Braided Stainless Steel line with stainless steel banjo fittings. After doing this, I just couldn't get the brakes bled well enough to prevent the rear brake pedal from bottoming out with more than negligible resistance. So yesterday, I removed the caliper from the mount, and used the flat of a combination wrench to hold the brake pads apart, and suspended the caliper off the easy bracket post on that side, the whole point of this being to get the rear brake line as straight-running as possible from the grommet that's bolted to the swing-arm.
Now to the bonehead part, seeing as how the strap-the-front-brake-lever-to-the-grip trick works so well on firming up the front brakes, I got the bright idea to weigh down the rear brake pedal using a charged propane bottle. As this is progressing the bike is on a sears jackstand so that the rear brake reservoir is as level as possible.
Today was supposed to be a pretty rainy and nasty day, and seeing as how the rear brake wasn't attached to the rotor, I took the cage to work today. On the way home, I get a premonition of doom seeing link fence posts that have been uprooted by what-must-have-been some serious winds accompanying the rain storms today.
So I get home and see my beauty lying on her right side on the jackstand. Between the propane gas bottle weighing down the brake pedal, and what I'm assuming was a pretty strong gust of wind, it was enough to topple the bike onto the jackstand. Fortunately, there's only cosmetic damage, the worst thing seems to be a dent in the tank from the jackstand pull lever, and the RH side cheese grater got a little mangled from said pull lever, and a few other scrapes on my previously beautiful blacked out muffler, header, and footpeg bracket.
So that's my bonehead story and I'm sticking to it. On the plus side, the rear brake feels alot firmer than it did yesterday!
Good its only cosmetic...
Glad it is still ridable!!