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Old 06-19-2009, 12:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
RJN2112
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Default Rock strikes on my hands

I've noticed this year that if I am at freeway speeds, my fingers are getting a beating accross the first joint past the knuckle.... usually my index fingers, on both hands .

Has anyone else noticed an unusually high number of strikes to the hands, on the FZ? I got whacked with a rock flipped up by a logging truck Tuesday, had to be a bit smaller than a golf ball, or it would have broken my finger.

Wednesday, some sort of heavily laden bug whacked into the switch assembly on the throttle side.... left a sticky spot like sap, a good 2" accross.

I'd like to know if the '07 and later fairings are producing similar results..... if anyone else is taking the same sort of abuse as me, that is. It would be quite painful, without heavy padded gloves.
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