I Crashed My Kove 450 Rally HARD. How Tough Is It?
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2023
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Tyler, very happy you are on the mend mentally and physically. Please don’t twist the forks with the bars, you need to loosen the triple clamps and bounce the front end and it will go back straight.
So the steering damper didn’t prevent that head shake from getting out of control?
I hope you recover quickly and heal
I think you are just at that point in life where you start to realize that you’re not 25 any longer…
Slow down and smell the roses 🌹
I went through that exact faze a few years ago.
Cheers and blessings from Israel 🇮🇱
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Please consider pulling the forks and triple clamps off. Thoroughly inspect triple clamps and bearings and steering head before riding hard again. It's so easy to assume it feels right and have a critical failure after a hard crash.get well soon
Dude glad to see you're okay.That truly seemed a hard crash.
That level of damage after that hard a crash is impressive… and your arm is healing too!
"isn't she beautiful", nod nod. "Honey I'm going to ride the Kove just to see if it's not broken like me".
Tyler, Keep bouncing back! Good post crash report on the bike, let your arm heal and keep living the dream!
Hard to tell by camera but it looked like about a 40mph impact. Good report you made for us. Impressive that the damage wasn't much worse. Thank you and God bless.
Great crash follow up, and I'm glad you're on the mend.
I've always loved your output, and your courage for sharing the non bike stuff.
Fork straightening. You're loosening off all the TC bolts first aren't you.
It might be easier to pull the front wheel and just do a proper alignment. Its easy with 2 arms. One... not so much, but you have friends.
I would think twice about changing out the tower to aluminum. You would be moving the failure point down to its mounting point (frame)?
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Glad to hear you are recovering well, stay safe and best wishes...enjoy your content, thank you for bringing us along.
Good to see your on the mend. Keep up the great work.
Awesome Tyler! As you know, riding is the best thing for your mental health. I bought a Kove with your link and I'm thankful!! Take a deep breath and enjoy your Sunday! Heal up quick!!
Good to see you feeling a little better :)
Glad to see you back at it.
7:54 - could've very well been from the crash, as it's the material that deforms, the bolt just acts as a "spring" to keep the parts together, of the forks twisted/misaligned it's possible things got a little crooked out of shape temporarily causing some bolts to loosen up and some to tighten up, especially if it was fairly random.
Glad you’re doing better on all fronts as far as we can tell from this. Like the FXR Helmet! I have the orange and grey version! Hopefully see you soon! Merry almost merry Christmas!
Good for you! Stay with it!
Thanks for the update man. My slide on my Kove was similar but a little less aggressive or violent. We did go down shifting up from third aggressively at over 40mph and not realizing I was in ice and not wet gravel lol. Went down and slid on the right side and after I got off the top of the bike I flip over and slid on the left briefly. On damage was a broken rear signal and a bent up hear shield
So good to see you on your feet again!
Dude! Good to see you stoked! When you twist the forks loosen the bolts on the clamps and the axle bolts. This helps free up any binding before wrenching on it with a busted wing.
Glad to see so many notifications from this channel. I wish it was a little different, but you get that. Heal well!
It's good to see you happy and smiling 😁
Glad you are in good spirits about the crash! It’s bound to happen how often we ride.
Wow, that crash was rough. Glad you're on the mend.
Your demeanor and mood was so good today man…! Glad to see that..!! It seemed to take that impact pretty well……
I'm happy to see you in good spirits, warm greetings from Italy.
You take care and all the best.
it's also possible that the whole upper and lower tripple clamps are not only twisted in a horizontal way. If you take them a part and put them on a flat surface you will know for sure - that was a case with one of our bikes, we had to replace the lower fork bridge - I don't belief that they over torque the screws
Good to see you're on the mend and the bike is mostly A-okay. You got me to say "No! Bad Tyler!" When you talked about trying to straighten the forks. Gotta give it time and get the okay before pushing yourself or you risk undoing the healing (the slowest part of any injury) and ending up setting back the 100% date again. Dr. Mom (DPT) has beaten that one into my head.
I'd get your hands on the torque specs for the fork and see what they say. USD forks are twitchy about what the clamp bolts are set to and it can make the fork kinda sticky and seem extra stiff. Sometimes they will spec a really light torque on the lower bolts (get the bolt down and then fart on the ratchet once and that's it) and then really tighten the upper bolts more to provide the safety margin to avoid the forks shooting through the clamp and clonking you in the face when you drop off a ledge flat.
Hey Tyler, things are sounding a little more upbeat. Looks like the Kove has lived to fight another day. Keep up the good work with your recovery. 👍🇦🇺
Glad to hear it was mostly OK. Hope you are able to heal your shoulder up ASAP and get back out there with the tours.
Good to see you in better spirits today Tyler! Doesn't say much for the materials on that bike though if it got that messed up from a 40ish mph crash. My buddy's 300L Rally took a 60-70mph crash and took less damage
Your buddies 300L doesn't have a tall nav tower to take all that force and impact in a crash. Also no two crashes are the same, you have different impact points, different forces and torque being applied. I'd say the Kove came out quite well.
The Kove is finally starting to peak my interest so I went out to the USA importer site. The site states that it is a closed completion course only use and that it is not street legal. That's a short synopsis of its disclaimer. That means it cannot be ridden off road legaly in California or plated in most states. IMO that means it has not passed EPA regulations. That's fine but that makes it a dirt bike which is disappointing.
I am impressed. Nothing broke worse than on any other bike would in a crash like that. You planted yourself and the bike HARD on what looks like hard pack dirt. I have a collar bone that never healed right after a similar crash so you got away lucky. The fact it didnt bend the frame in half makes me think 2x about buying one myself. Thanks for the info, use light weights like soup cans 1/2 hr 4x daily to heal up,ice and heat between helps .
I'm glad you are doing so well, Tyler. Bike doesn't look that bad for a crash at that speed.
Glad you are ok
hey Tyler.glad your ok.im an old customer of yours.keep up the good work.
Glad to see that you're ' getting back in the saddle' so to speak. Hope you're starting to feel better too. Like a lot of people with mental illness, they hide it pretty well. Hope this isn't the case with you, and you really are starting to feel your old self again.
Thanks for the update. As all riders might say..."How's the Bike?"
What happened to the original skid plate? There's a piece of white plastic bolted on where it use to be.
The bolts being too tight or too loose in the triple clamps very well could have been because of the crash. The tension in the clamp itself can change due to external forces without the bolt itself turning. Not saying it was but it could have been
Glad to know that your going better with the arm.
This is a good test to see how is the spare parts situation with Kove.
Thanks for crashing in order to let us to know about it! 😂😂😂
I don't think it's a good test concerning parts. I would bet a youtube influencer will get parts asap compared to Joe six pack.
Keep us updated with the bike. I've been thinking of picking one up now that I've totaled two KLX's. I ride them too hard. Plus I usually trailer the thing everywhere anyways because it doesn't have the fuel range. Its either a strictly street bike or just a worse dirtbike to me. So I need to know if this bike is up for the task. Everyone's been calling it the dirtbikers dual sport and it seems like a dream bike. But I'm going to break it and I'm going to need parts.
Lol, very familiar with what the wifey may have said after you announced the ride to check out the bike! Good to know great women!
Chinesium metal is selective at what is soft, and what is immortal. I took a really hard crash on steep wet rocks on my prior GPX bike. I hit the radiator with no brace, front brake cylinder, throttle tube, headlight and bar's. None of that broke to my surprise. Rode it wonky back to truck, thought bars were bent. Nope. The 1/2" bolt for oem bar clamps bent, and at a 30 degree angle too LOL.
I can't see the footage even now, have to close my eyes. I feel the pain.
Glad you weren't seriously injured . It's EZ to get a little carried away sometimes.
Like you said, not if, but when you crash. Ride long enough and it'll happen to anyone. Glad you're doing better and the bike held up quite well!
Thank you for showing us real world damage...this stuff usually is not shown on manufacture release tests when invited riders biff the bits. So if you zip tied it all back together and keep making Kove content...I wonder if parts would magically appear....hmmm. Hope you get well and back to riding soon! Cheers!
The clicking in the back might be a ball bearing. Hopefully it's the chain guard. That happened to my DR650 about a year ago. Easy fix.
Don't worry about the bike, but about yourself. Get well soon. Günter/Nürnberg
I wish everyone would use Zeus fasteners for their plastics, so much easier.
Thanks for the update, glad you and the bike are fairly well.
Please do not try just twisting the front to straighten it. (Not on a bike or a motorcycle)
Just deweight the front and loose up those bolts. Clean everything and straighten them while they are loose.
PS: Just watched the rest of the video and it sounds like you did exactly that.
Get well soon and ride safe 😄
Loosen one side little wiggle on the bars and tighten , repeat for the other side.
Gets most of the issues solved and can do it in the field.
Your a lucky man Tyler riding the best places in America a wonderful family and beautiful wife. Been following you for years now love your channel !
I'd like to hear how long it takes to get parts from Kove. You may want to get some real hand guards while she is down, glad you are ok!
Thank you for showing us the damage. I am a bit worried that sinse you are an influencer Kove will get you get you the repair parts compared to the average joe. IMO the broken plastics are of inferior quality.
That looked like a pretty hard high side on the left of the bike. Last time I did that in the woods the whole right side was trashed the bars were so bent the throttle was parallel with the bike broke the foot brake off and broke all the plastics
Sir, sorry for your injuries… May I ask though .. I’m curious (the trail doesn’t look that bad ?)
If you’d been on a KTM450 with quality suspension… would you have crashed there ?
Tyler, you mentioned your broken tablet that is cheap to replace. What brand/model is it & does it have GPS capability?
I'm expecting from Kove the same thing that happened to the Black Series RV's. You got about 2 years of good quality, good quality control to build up the reputation then once it's marginally well known raise the price by 20-30% and cheap out on quality control as much as you can and still put out the occasional model without defects for the reviews. They will ride the reputation of the first years as long as they can then fade into just another overpriced mediocre brand.
You sound like the Member of the Politburo in charge of Motorcycle Production.
I agree. I've been in the plastics business my whole career and I thought the plastics that broke were brittle and inferior which is normal for Chinese motorcycles.
Well Tyler you are definitely "beta testing " the Kove! Glad you are feeling better!🙏👍😀
Great update, Tyler! Beautiful wife too!
Just super glue the screen and body work...and zip ties!
Fresh bodywork has a natural affinity for Terra firma!!
Lucky you weren’t properly injured dude
Yeah for real! It did break my arm clean through, but man it could have been SO much worse if my head had hit first!
I have a crash on my Kawasaki klr 650 hitting a kangaroo and smash my humorous bone to Pieces it’s all screwed back together and two years on I have 95 to 97% of my movement back so you can slack off getting that shoulder to move. Beware of frozen shoulder you must move that shoulder.
I'm sure your wife said "yeah, take it for a ride. In fact, try that triple jump over there while you're at it". Seriously though, glad you are in good spirits!
Glad you are recovering. I was wondering if you were wearing any body armor. If so what was it? Heal thyself
Dude, loosen the triples and axle pinch and do it right!
Loosen lower triple pinch bolts and axle pinch bolts and get someone not broken to pump the front end a few times.
Don't ride with a broken humerus, reinjury will set you way back. Heal fast.
Click, click - check your spokes
Your wife’s a hottie, your on the mend, the Kove is fixable, and the sun will shine again for a new day to ride.
Probably threadlocker not torque. Threadlocker is god’s gift.
Is this the first time that a rally bike has been put into production?
More like the first time a production bike was entered in a rally
What part of UT are you located?
St. George
Not Wednesday, Tuesday. I left Wednesday morning. Dude if he's riding over towards the southwest of that area, it's gorgeous. I was just on 15 but it was really cool seeing the rock layers. You could see how the tectonic plate movement shifted those mountains up at an angle.
Hiya bro ... Good to see u in high spirits ... Very nice to see ur wife and if u dont have kids yet ... Its abt time if i dare say so ... Live natural life ... And remember there is NO RACE, its just the capitalist system u were raised in ... Love from Pakistan
Nobody says Kove bikes are slow. The problem might be that they're fast and the suspension isn't up to it. How can you say that parts should be easy to get. We can't even buy the bikes here.
Your wife is beautiful!
I hope you heal and keep riding.
Be safe my friend …
May God bless her
Seems like the bike held up better than you bud! :)
how about a link to uncle wayne.........peez
You sure have lost a grommet......... 🙂👍
I think Kove overcompensated when it come to torquing bolts simply because Chinese bikes have a history of being delivered with EVERYTHING loose.
You are who you are, but you will see some comments like mine, of subscribers who are genuinely concerned about you; so take your time to heal properly, please... 😮 👍
What would have happened if you crashed by yourself?
Ride out, walk out, call for help, wait for rescue or become coyote food.
Yes, you have a very hot wife and she even works on your bike! That is fricken AWESOME! Hope your bike is better soon and you too!😉
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Don't take this wrong. But there are not enough legitimate crash videos.. riding off road.. pushing yourself results in crashing..glad you are ok . but for all the middle aged guys buying 5-600+ adventure -dual sports w aluminum washing machine sized luggage..dirt roads are good.. but if you really try to have an adventure. or go in the dirt to explore the dual part of dual sport you are going to crash.. just happens..
Save your old parts so they can be copied. It seems only fair.
Surprised at how many people want to buy a Chinese bike, don't we get enough Chinese junk from Walmart,
Just watched a video where one Kove rider is already having fuel guage sender problems. Chinese motorcycles are throw aways.
The real damage is the head ache it will be getting replacement parts