I have a buddy who bought an 03 ZX636 right before I bought my ZRX (a couple of months ago). Last week, he had a little mishap with a curb in Wal-Mart parking lot. Some guy in a blazer didn't see him and he tried to miss the blazer resulting in a collision with the curb. He obviously layed the bike over, but did very little damage. He knocked off a signal light and scratched it up some. Something is also amiss in the handle bars. Since I work on bikes from time to time, I got asked to help assess the problem.
I think I know what is wrong, but I am unsure on what to do to correct it. First question, can clipon handle bars slip around the fork or do they only go on one way. What I mean is, can you loosen the allen head bolt and rotate the clipon around the fork tube or is there a key or something similar that would prevent that. It feels like the handlebars are pointed a little to the left when you are riding straight. I thought that the clipon handlebar might have slipped around the fork a little. I also think that the fork tubes rotated in the triple clamps and got locked there during the accident. Is this possible? What do I do to correct this? Can I just loosen the triple clamp bolts and let the forks realign themselves or do I need to do something special to make sure that everything is aligned properly? When you let go of the bars at 60mph or so, there is a little handlebar shake. Would you consider this normal, or a result of the mislaligned forks or maybe something else? My ZRX doesn't shake at all when you let go of the bars. Is there anything else that I need to check when looking over this bike.
Thanks for the help,