Just remember that material things can be replaced. Family is all important.

 

bikes are fairlly waterproof. change all the fluids and clean it real well, it will be good as new. doubt the computer or relays would be bad.. absulutlly no reason to replace any fuses unless the ignition was turned on while wet, and they blew.

 

Agree with hattitude i'm an avionics tech on military aircraft and have seen what salt water does to wiring it does wick up the wiring and corrode from the inside out and you won't see it till it gets to the contacts. And thats on mil spec wiring that is 100% better than motorcycle and automotive wiring.

 

Jimmy, trust me. Saltwater is nasty ****. You don't get much of it in Ohio. If those things aren't bad now, they will be soon.

 

Storm caused both fresh and salt water damage. If fresh water, the damage is much easier to repair than salt.

From original post no salt water was noted.

 

I'm all for never letting a bike die, but if my sled was sitting under salt water for a while, I'd really want nothing to do with it.

The thought of what could potentially go wrong would always be in the back of my head and I'd never feel right.

Sorry to hear about your bike though man, I hope you get it figured out.

 

Took my friend to HD of Nassau County (Long Island, NY) to pick up his new CVO convertible...they had about 75 bikes with blue painters tape on the headlight marked "flood"...the service manager said they had about 50 more to pick-up and counting...

 

Speakerfritz sorry to hear what you went through and glad to hear the family is well. I went through the Black Saturday fires here in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia in 2009.
We stayed and fought the bushfires and saved our house and main shed but lost all infrastructure and other sheds and stuff to the tune of $100k. Fortunately insurance saved the day.

Anyway this isn't about me. I too have seen what water, whether salt or fresh (fresh to a lesser extent) can do to wiring to create internal corrosion when you least expect it. Water and electricity just don't get along.
I suggest that you total the bike or get rid of it asap before the possibility of long term troubles set in.
Good luck whatever you do.

 

Very sorry to hear about your ride. My BF and I both work for dot in Columbia County NY and I have been pulling many long hours going to Westchester Co. to help with tree clean up. So many of those people are even now still without power. It is devestating to look up a road and see nothing but enormous trees in the road covered in power lines and know how bad off these people are.
At first they were happy to see us but by now, they are getting pretty pissed off. They just want to be able to get out of their driveways and go to a store by now. I keep telling people next time to fill their bathtubs up with water so they have enough water to at least flush. Much easier than bottles of water...closer too. They don't even have any convenience stores with power yet so most of the ones that can get out of their driveways, pretty much have no where to go except for the long 7-eleven with a generator.
The funniest thing to me, or maybe it isn't funny, is that these are million dollar houses that went thru this last year at Halloween and none of them broke down and bought a generator. Would have been #1 on my list of things to do.
Good luck with your bike but at least you and your family are safe.

 

Uncle Paul
NYC is surrounded by salt and brackish(prt salt) water. No fresh water around here except in lakes in parks. All the rivers are mostly salt until you get above the GW Bridge. By then, you are leaving the city. That's why I referred to it as salt water damage.