rayjay
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It's good practice to go over the bike every month or so and tighten things up..i'm always surprised 
RJ
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Pulled my bike into the garage
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Pete
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my vote is for a radiator shroud bolt they can suffer from heavy hands.
I had to fit a helicoil to one of mine after some jerk over tightened it during a service.
I had to fit a helicoil to one of mine after some jerk over tightened it during a service.
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Having had a closer look and noting your bike is an '06, and given the colour of the bolt, I'd said Hanso got it right with the plastic cover between the tank and head stock.
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I know you said it fell from the front, but if these other ideas or not correct, check the back screw that holds the seat on. I have lost that one twice now and eventually used lock tight to keep it secure. It looks just like this screw you show in the picture. Maybe just a common screw with a common issue. Let us know what you find...
cr0ft
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Since it's that large and also black, it is in my view most likely to have come off the plastic side covers that cover the cables and other things behind the triple tree. Between the tank and the front forks.
The radiator shroud has mostly very similar/identical bolts but all the ones that length are shiny/chrome. Some of the others are shorter but still shiny (if you have a chrome shroud). The black ones on the radiator are inside the shroud holding the actual radiator grill in place, and they're smaller and shorter and not externally visible.
Btw, check all the bolts if you haven't. Without loctite in my experience a number of the radiator shroud bolts vibrate loose almost instantly, I put blue loctite on all of them when I mounted my radiator grill embellisher from Flip and have had no worries about that since.
(All this written from the viewpoint of an R3 Touring owner with a chrome shroud, if your bike differs then perhaps it uses long black bolts like that on the shroud).
The radiator shroud has mostly very similar/identical bolts but all the ones that length are shiny/chrome. Some of the others are shorter but still shiny (if you have a chrome shroud). The black ones on the radiator are inside the shroud holding the actual radiator grill in place, and they're smaller and shorter and not externally visible.
Btw, check all the bolts if you haven't. Without loctite in my experience a number of the radiator shroud bolts vibrate loose almost instantly, I put blue loctite on all of them when I mounted my radiator grill embellisher from Flip and have had no worries about that since.
(All this written from the viewpoint of an R3 Touring owner with a chrome shroud, if your bike differs then perhaps it uses long black bolts like that on the shroud).
breeze
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didn't you see all the extra parts rocket scientist had left over?youre worried about one measly bolt? lol maybe bear claw cover?side cover? let us know I guarantee there will be a bunch of us out checking the ones on our bike
Rich Brewer
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Thanks for all the responses guys. Im currently at work, but believe me I will be going over my bike carefully when I get home.
It was wierd how it happened. I was just on the highway going 90 and went through a city with a lot of stop lights. Waited for the bike to cool and then as I parked it in the garage it rocked a bit from me hitting the breaks and thats when I heard the bolt hit the ground. But like I said in 7 hours when I get home ill check it out.
Thanks again,
Rich
It was wierd how it happened. I was just on the highway going 90 and went through a city with a lot of stop lights. Waited for the bike to cool and then as I parked it in the garage it rocked a bit from me hitting the breaks and thats when I heard the bolt hit the ground. But like I said in 7 hours when I get home ill check it out.
Thanks again,
Rich
Rich Brewer
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Thanks for all the responses guys. Im currently at work, but believe me I will be going over my bike carefully when I get home.
It was wierd how it happened. I was just on the highway going 90 and went through a city with a lot of stop lights. Waited for the bike to cool and then as I parked it in the garage it rocked a bit from me hitting the breaks and thats when I heard the bolt hit the ground. But like I said in 7 hours when I get home ill check it out.
Thanks again,
Rich
It was wierd how it happened. I was just on the highway going 90 and went through a city with a lot of stop lights. Waited for the bike to cool and then as I parked it in the garage it rocked a bit from me hitting the breaks and thats when I heard the bolt hit the ground. But like I said in 7 hours when I get home ill check it out.
Thanks again,
Rich
Mark Dunn
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That looks very much like one of the bolts from the side of the radiator and is located inside the left or right radiator side cover.
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