I don't think it was meant to be....

[unfknblvbl]

Me owning a Harley. So as most know I dumped mine shortly after I got it. Got everything put back together (better than new) to include a new tank. Was walking into my garage this evening and the sun hit the tank just right to show me a nice new dent in the freakin' tank. I'm so ticked off right now I can't even think straight. 550 bucks thrown right out the damn window

Sorry had to vent. Time to do some rearranging in the garage and get the kids and all of their crap out of it. I think it was either a bicycle or scooter handlebar.

Or build a little shed inside your garage, sorta like a "hog house" instead of a dog house.

As a kid, I rember one of my friend's dads strung up a steel cable going from the back wall of the garage to a post he set up floor to celing, near the front of the garage. The cable was about 5 feet above the floor. He draped a piece of carpet over the cable that hung down to the ground.
The only thing allowed behind the carpet were his motorcycles. That was his idea of protection from his wife door dinging them and us kids.

[street bob]

Mannnnn..................that is bad news for sure...I feel your pain.
Don't get dicouraged though....one day those kids will grow up...then you can remind them of there "mistake" as your cleaning out their wallet!!

[DesertSpeed]

Dent King, Pops-a-dent and all those other hot glue dent menders work just fine and only cost about $19.95. Once my kids learned to use one, they quit banging up my vehicles. Either that or they got very good at pulling dents.

[JCourneyaP]

Hey Gunny...Yup that sucks. I had a neighbor kid a few years ago decided he was going to play one of those hand held video games while sitting on my bike.
He scratched the crap out of my tank with his dirty muddy shoes. Kids do some stupid stuff.

If the paint aint cracked I would just leave it for now. Gives a little Character.
Ride the hell out of it and when you get some cash get it fixed. Or call your insurance company who may be a little PO at you from your last encounter with the gaurd rail.

Sometimes you just live with the Battle Scars...........You of all people understand that.

[Hammerhead Pat]

Find a buddy and drive thru a dark parking lot late some evening." Borrow" one of those cement things they put at the front of the parking space and set that in your garage defining the bikes "space". Just a suggestion

[evoKENevo]

"Bummer",UFB..

Can't guarantee that the following will work in your case...but there are guys out there that can make "dings" in some gas tanks go-away just by "massaging" them from the inside with these "special-tools" if they can reach it thru the filler bung..and,I've even seen a guy do it by just heating the dent (not too much) with a heat-gun, then rubbing "dry-ice" (wrapped in towel) over it..."boink"!! Yeah and these guys don't charge an arm and a leg,either

Meanwhile.."YEP"..ya gotta do something to keep the little "not-meee" buggers away from your stuff...and, you might want to invest a few bucks in a good packing-blanket to cover & protect, indoors, that much more

Oh,and, by the way...I never-ever HIT kids ('cept when I was one) but,did make it REAL clear that it COULD happen !!

[unfknblvbl]

I'm just gonna leave the dent as is. The way I was raised I could look, but I'll be damned if I touched, took any sort of toy or bicycle near my dads or his buddies bikes. I'm trying to raise my kids that way. In a dealer they're good about it they don't get within one of their arms distance of a bike unless they just can't avoid it (floor being crowded), but for some odd reason that goes right out the window (especially with my youngest) when we're at home. I guess like when buying a new car I should of just kicked it on the dealers lot and get it over with

evo- I don't hit my kids unless they step way out of line, then I'm not against paddling their butts. I got my butt spanked growing up and it didn't kill me. In a case like this if I can't prove who did it then none of them are in trouble. Neighbor kids aren't allowed in the garage.

JC- No doubt kids do some stupid stuff. That's why neighbor kids aren't allowed in the garage. After we returned from Japan I bought my wife the mini-van of her dreams, not really, but she had to have it and about a month or so after we bought it a neighbor kid rode his scooter down the driveway in between her van and my truck I guess while acting like a pinball. His handlebar went down one side of her van, over to my truck, and then back to her van leaving nice deep scratches down both of our vehicles. After that neighbor kids were not allowed in the garage. If they came in depending on which of kids friend it was, my child was grounded for the rest of that day and the day following. They learned real quick...

[Fenderplayer]

I threaten my step kids all the time with - "you or any of your stuff touch that bike and I'll kill ya!"

One of the guys in another forum I belong too just had his wife drop a ladder on his bike a few weeks ago.

Time heals all wounds - or so I've heard.

[evoKENevo]

Oh "hey",UFB..when I said "I never-ever HIT kids" that was'nt saying they never got a "swat on the butt" or a "noogey"...