You never expect it to happen to you. You buy a new Goldwing motorcycle and go for your first long club ride. I had heard of damage to the oil filter from rocks but never expected it to happen to me even though I knew someone who lost an engine for that reason. I heard about someone who had struck a rock and lost all of their oil. I had also seen on the webboards that this could occur so I had orderd a belly pan as an aftermarket item. The time for the ride was here but the belly pan had not arrived.

We rode into West Virginia from Manassas, Virginia and just short of our hotel in Marlinton Virginia, We rounded a curve.andnbsp; On the road were rocks that had come down the side of the hill and landed on the road. My front tire struck a rock. The rock flipped up from under the front tire and hit the Goldwing, making a loud noise. It sounded like something had exploded. I could see smoke coming from the bike and had to get off the road and shut down fast. After the curve there was a business parking lot which I rode into and I hit the kill switch coasting to a stop. The result of the rock damage is shown below. The irony is I had read of this problem on the webboards and had ordered a belly pan the previous Monday night, but I had not arrived by Friday morning when we departed Manassas.The damage to my fairing - three deep cuts was minor compared to the hole in my oil filter. The grey plastic could be replaced. A passerby happened to have a tool I could use to remove the oil filter. The engine sump was almost empty. I had lost all my oil. Another club member offerd to let me use his bike to go find oil and a filter in the nearest town. I rode back down the hill and purchased an oil filter and 4 quarts of oil.
In the parking lot, I did a roadside repair and installed the oil filter and oil. The Goldwing started up just fine. I appreciate the fellow riders who trusted me with their motorcycle after mine was struck and also was lucky that the person who stopped had a screwdriver that helped me remove the damaged oil filter. We rode the last two miles to our hotel with no problems.

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