How do I fix a rear grab bar that is scraped?

[TC17]

my friend brian was doing wheelies on my 250EX today. of course, i didn't want him to so i told him not to. he did anyway. he stood it up, smashed the rear grab bar off the ground and scraped it pretty bad. i have never hurt or scraped anythiny on it and i am very upset. should i take it off, sand it, spray it and put it back on? i want to paint it a shiny, metalic, chrome. i was think about spray painting the front and back red to make it look better. what's everyone's opion. what should i do? thanks.

[kxrider]

jut paint it with a clear coat so it dont rust then deal with it stuff happens

[Racing Rice]

bah, itll be okay.. Run it till it rusts and buy a new one they are only like $45. :devil

[TC17]

here it is.

[TC17]

here he is right before he flipped it.

[TC17]

here is one of me.

[quadlessmike]

awww, man suck it up. crap like that happens, ha you should see mine!! i have 2 dents and i think it is bent up from hittin it. ya lots of scrach marks too!!

oops just realized i was in quadlessmikes name!!!!

this is 250exen if anyone cares!

[zephead400ex]

hey man, dont be too p*ssed, at least he was wearing a helmet...could have scraped his scalp along with your bar...its only a grab bar

[Sparks425Ex]

Pish Posh... Don;t worry about it. Just spray a little bit of clear coat on it and it will be fine. Just don;t let it rust. Then when you do end up really bashing the thing then you can go buy a new one.

[kxrider]

dud that aint that bad my friend brought mine over and caugh it on a root and bent it to a point, i just left it til i got money for a new dg

[Team Outlaw #34]

for things like that i just brush the rust off (if there is any) with a steel brush and then i get a spray paint and try to get the same color and patch it up....

[TC17]

thanks guys. i was just upset because it's about 5 months old and i haven't hurt anything on it. yeah, he sort of just hit the back and came back down.

[JustRace]

It could be worse. Your friend could have jumped it and landed on the grab bar.

[YardDog24]

Originally posted by 2003TRX250EX
here it is.

He never would have flipped it if he was covering the rear brake. :devil

I agree with most here, clean it up and clearcoat it.

[Z-King]

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh nnnnnoooooooooo
say it aint so not a scrach :devil
i am just screwing with you but mine was up till it was touching the plastic but thats what it is there for

[KrazyKid300ex]

why are you worried. look at yourself. you have your legs up on the plastic

[kicken250x]

OMG!!! NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA Just messin with you man! You should see mine...or whats left of it anyways.:devil Back when I was first learning how to ride wheelies and click through the gears I would drag the bar all the time. hit it so many time that when I was pulling it out of the building one day I broke it off. lol I havent had one in... 3 months? That is how you learn to ride wheelies REALLY good is with no grad bar!! lol Later...

[rider250ex]

that is nothing. i would love to have that one. mine is like touching my seat. i hit a rock doin a 4th gear wheelie. that looks fine.

[RideRed400StYlE]

Hey, sand it a little bit, and pick up a can of duplicolor dark metalflake gray.. its a shade darker than stock, but its the closest to the original color we have ever found. used it on some stock a-arms, and you cant even tell the difference.. or feel free to send it to me, and I can powdercoat it any color ya want
just my .02 cents

[Ride400]

good joke, that grab bars fine.

[DantheEXman]

Dude.... Thats what its there for... or you can all the plastics and the stock bars good bye. And if there isnt anyone who doesent tip it up on a regulair basis, they have seriouse problems. Just leave it :blah (Most people i ride with have a flat grab bar from ridin wheelies on black top.)

[Z-King]

dude it maks you look like u ride harder if it is all messed up

[desertratt45]

make your buddy buy a new for you. put it a box till you sell your bike and then put it on. no sence on sracthing up a new. cuz it will happen again:D

[TC17]

i'm just going to take it off, sand it, and spray paint it. i'm sure it'll happen again. he didn't actually flip it. it just stood on the grab bar and came back down. we're both glad the bars didn't come down and crush his rib cage or something. it snowed a lot and i'm looking foward to riding tom. my dad did a really big powerslide coming out of an intersection today. no one was around. i'm going to be doing a lot of wheelies(if i can get grip) this winter. you can't scrape the bar if it's on snow.

haha, i had my 400ex one day and it was all scraped up after that :p

[300EXrider02]

hahaha your mad bout that man..damn u gotta see mine before i got my prm it was better not to have one:D...your lucky your quad didnt come back on your freind and bend the $hit out of your bars to..and scratch the little *******s:D

[250x#93]

One time I got stuck trying to go over a log over a trail and got stuck on it. My friend on his recon wasn't paying attention smacked me in 3rd gear,luckily only bent grab bar into plastic. His front bumper now is bent back and flows with the plastic better;) :p Just by a new/used one on ebay thats what I did and painted is red. Looked nice painted up but riding wheelies soon wore the new paint off. Just wait till you roll it and bend the bars and scratch all the plastic:devil

[Derek]

HAHAHAHA i WISH mine looked as good as that. Mines so scrathed up its not even funny.

[iceman2488x]

dude, what is soo bad about a lil scratch on ur grab bar, mine is almost wore through, mine is on the grab bar about half of the time...think ur bar is bad, MY BUMPER GOT TORE COMPLETELY OFF....snapped the supports for it ...look at this LOL, no bumper..i had to drill out the bolts to even get the supports out

[BadA$$440]

dude, i snapped my front bumper to. I just snapped the top 2 bolts though. Its ziptied to my frame right now, lol

[Sick0]

You gotta to be joking right. If you care about THAT YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN OWN A QUAD.

[DantheEXman]

yeah... what he said.... lol

[TC17]

i take good care of my quad.

[Sick0]

:devil

[phatswinn]

jeez i gotta get a pic of mine now, its shaped like a U and theres a part of it missing from hitting a rock, how does his arse look? my rule in never wheelie on the street, cuz theres been a couple people on here with head trauma from falling backwards, and if ya fall on ur arse, ya cant sit down for a month

[2K1 300EX]

I'll sell you a brand new AC grab bar, hasn't been opened yet. It has a number plate and 2 stickers with it too. PM if you want it.

[Honda99_300ex]

be glad it's just like that............here mine from after i learned wheelies.............

[TC17]

looks like it needs a bath real bad! hey, i'll take the pipe. lol. yeah yours is worst than mine. your plastic is scratched up i see.

[Honda99_300ex]

oh ya........alot of things are scratched up...........and beat up.............

[BadA$$440]

dude, dont worry about it. Id hate to see what you do when you REALLY do crash it.

[2k2-300exnj]

leave the kid alone its his first scratch... my grab bar is dented in and all scratched up... but i didnt put the new one on still... lol gotta find it it is in my dads shop somewhere

[DantheEXman]

yeah.. when I got my first scratch i was mad :grr but it doesent matter any more

[Jimmah]

I have yet put my bike on the grab bar......Keyword being "I". My buddy who has the same bike, pipe, and filter put my bike on it's grab bar my 3rd time out with it.

[TC17]

i was riding in the snow yesterday. there was ice under some some snow and i slid into a steel rail and it dinged my rims. whoops. oh well. it'll happen again and again. its called the "break-in process". i guess if it's not a little banged up i'm not riding it hard enough.

[Honda2003]

i got my quad almost 1 1/2 months ago and you should see all the scratches and dings. my first time out i had it stuck in mud over its wheels within the first 2 hours. had to have it pulled out