Hi Everyone,
I am brand new to this community because I just bought my first "big" bike (started on an 89 NX250), a 2002 naked SV650. I was riding home one night and, just my luck, flew over the top of it when my rear spun out on some crap on the road. Banged up the bike pretty good. I've started replacing what is broken and have found a couple issues as I have been going through it. One of the things I did was bend up my right foot rest and pedal so I replaced it with an aftermarket set. The new set sits a bit lower than the OEM one so I had to pull downwards the solenoid(?). Sorry I don't really know what its called, its the part that the rear of the lever connects to on the bike to compress the spring that's just behind the heel guard. Well now my brake light seems to be always on and nothing changes when I press the lever, either front or rear. I also banged up the right side of the handlebars pretty good but I can still hear the small 'click' when I press the front brake lever which leads me to assume that's fine, although it definitely could not be as I am new to the world of moto-maintainence. When I crashed I broke the peg off the foot lever and in doing so I had to wrench the lever back into the 'up' position to release the rear brake.
Anyone have any ideas on what I should do to try and fix this? Thanks!
I am brand new to this community because I just bought my first "big" bike (started on an 89 NX250), a 2002 naked SV650. I was riding home one night and, just my luck, flew over the top of it when my rear spun out on some crap on the road. Banged up the bike pretty good. I've started replacing what is broken and have found a couple issues as I have been going through it. One of the things I did was bend up my right foot rest and pedal so I replaced it with an aftermarket set. The new set sits a bit lower than the OEM one so I had to pull downwards the solenoid(?). Sorry I don't really know what its called, its the part that the rear of the lever connects to on the bike to compress the spring that's just behind the heel guard. Well now my brake light seems to be always on and nothing changes when I press the lever, either front or rear. I also banged up the right side of the handlebars pretty good but I can still hear the small 'click' when I press the front brake lever which leads me to assume that's fine, although it definitely could not be as I am new to the world of moto-maintainence. When I crashed I broke the peg off the foot lever and in doing so I had to wrench the lever back into the 'up' position to release the rear brake.
Anyone have any ideas on what I should do to try and fix this? Thanks!
