Jacket / Exhaust interface

[Lightrunner]

So when you accidentally burn a hole in your textile jacket how do you
a) Get the huge mess off the exhaust header
b) Deal with the huge hole in the jacket sleeve (can you get the outer skin repaired/patched?)

we are not amused

[Blackal]

Ooh!-Ooh!.... I know the answer to this one!

I hung a Goretex jacket on the bar-end, forgetting that I had taken the bike to fill up with fuel and the exhaust was hot!

a) The mess will burn off in short order on its own.

b) You will probably find that the jacket is fecked

My faux pas ruined the Gortex lining and melted the zip. Claimed off the house contents insurance and lost the £50 excess.

Got a new jacket out of it, but the original one (BMW Seattle) - I'd got off Ebay for £76 (a bargain)

Al

[Archie]

So when you accidentally burn a hole in your textile jacket how do you
a) Get the huge mess off the exhaust header
b) Deal with the huge hole in the jacket sleeve (can you get the outer skin repaired/patched?)

we are not amused

I did the same when I hung a Rukka jacket on my GS bars in the underground car park at work. When I went to pick it up the sleeve was firmly stuck to the header.

I ended up with a hole about 4"x2" which didn't go through the goretex, so it was still waterproof. I am told it's repairable, but luckily for me it was a loan jacket provided while mine was having a warranty repair.

Get the exhaust really hot and the crusty bit will scrape/flake off with light mechanical assistance.

Hope this helps.

[Ade B]

wet brillo pad on a hot exhaust removed a monster plastic bag encrustation which simply wouldn't fall off on its own.

If you are of the mirror polished header brigade, this perhaps isn't the best option..

Nearly set myself on fire in the first week of S ownership, knee/header interface simultaneous to fuel filler 'blow back'

Luckily saw the funny side...

Ade

[izustu]

I once dropped a glove and it sat on the header pipe, unbeknown to me. The small fire bought it to my attention.

Seriously do try and claim for your household contents insurance. But check with them first in case your policy is loaded the following year. (Some company’s discount your premium if you don't claim.)
I claimed for an Arai once that was damaged during a flood. Honestly!

Simon

[Dog Tyred]

I am told it's repairable, but luckily for me it was a loan jacket provided while mine was having a warranty repair.

Hope this helps.

I bet that pleased em!

[sproggy]

My wife killed her goretex trousers while checking her hair in the mirror We parked up outside work, bike on side stand, she takes her helmet off and steps in to check her hair in the RH mirror.......smell of burning.....messy exhaust and holed trousers. Fortunately she didn't burn her leg, but she won't do that again in a hurry.....





.......now she checks her hair in the LH mirror


As Blackall said, the mess came off the exhaust in the 25 miles it took to ride home. The trousers didn't recover.

[Blackal]

I claimed for an Arai once that was damaged during a flood. Honestly!

Simon

Did you manage to hold your breath until the level dropped??

Al

[Jason M]

I put a big burn on my forehead with the headers if that counts - I was checking to see how much was left on the brakepads at the time

[bigblackfalco]

I put a big burn on my forehead with the headers if that counts - I was checking to see how much was left on the brakepads at the time

Is it made of plastic 'gov......anycahnce of sending it back to the maker for repairs?
Bailey.

[Lightrunner]

I've left the jacket with Nine Lives in Farnborough
£20 for a guaranteed waterproof repair.

I'll let you know how it turns out

[Archie]

I've left the jacket with Nine Lives in Farnborough
£20 for a guaranteed waterproof repair.

I'll let you know how it turns out

I believe they're the approved Rukka repairers in the UK, so should be fine.

[Ade B]

I put a big burn on my forehead with the headers if that counts - I was checking to see how much was left on the brakepads at the time

superb

[Lightrunner]

Picked the jacket up on Saturday and I'm very pleased with the work.
They've done a part panel replacement and in my opinion you wouldn't know it hadn't come out of the factory like that.

Ride into work this morning was in constant rain and the jacket works as well as it ever has