Original post deleted I guess - with no notice. Had a "naughty" word in title. To the mod who removed it - sorry - I was still shell-shocked when I wrote teh post and had to get moving.
Anyway - so I hop on my scoot to do some chores. I get on the main road, take a 20 mph turn a bit on the hot side get a block further down and it's "damn - forgot my meds". Since I was headed out to lunch and teh meds are taken with food - I figure I need to go back. So I u-turn at the next side street. As I'm making my u-turn the front end starts to go down and nothing I'm doing is stopping teh bike from dropping. So I stick out my left leg and start stopping - a real feat with a 545 lb bike. I mean the front end is doing some weird stuff and I'm freaking because the bike is going down and nothing is working! I notice vaguely the front end looks funny. I didn't go down completely but I now have a matching scratch on the left side and the handlebar end is scraped. But I did keep it from going down further - as I'm hauling the bike back up I notice the handlebars are skewed and the act of picking the bike up (still mounted using one leg and sheer arm power) is straightening the bars. what the hell I think. I get teh bike up and lock the front end. The handlebars are skewed a bit. I gotta tell ya - that scared the crap out of me. Apparently something has "let go" in the steering and the short turn radius was enough that the bars turned on me instead of turning teh front end. If that had happened when I sailed through that 20 mph turn....
Needless to say I rode like a grandma back home scared to turn. I'll call Chuck Monday to come pick it up.
Any clues what the hell could have happened? I'll take a peek tomorrow to see what I can see - I was too busy today.
Jon