If you ride a sportbike long and hard enough, chances are eventually you will wreck. Hopefully for your sake, it will be on a track with all the proper safety gear, rather than a public road with other cars and obstacles. For your motorcycles sake, hopefully you will have some sort of frame sliders or race rails to help protect your bike. However chances are even with frame sliders or race rails, your bike has just endured a beating, its going to have some damage.

There are a few types of damage to look for on these bikes. There will be obvious damage such as broken fairings, bent pegs, mangled stay brackets, and more. All of these types of damage are noticeable, even to someone who knows nothing about motorcycles. These are always the first things noticed damaged; however it may not be the worst of your damage

There is a possibility that your bike sustained some frame, rim, or suspension damage. These types of damage are much less noticeable to the naked eye. You will need to take various measurements, from the front to back wheel to insure the bike is still straight. Check areas on the frame around the steering stem and were the sub frame (if your bike has a sub frame) mounts. These are common areas for bends and cracks. Check welds for cracks; sometimes they can me as small as a hairline crack. Forks as well can easily be bent, so check those for straightness as well.

Before spending money to repair or replace any cosmetic or obviously damaged parts, be sure that your frame, suspension, and wheels are all straight. Otherwise you could be throwing money at a project that you're not going to be satisfied with. If the bike is not straight it may handle poorly, chew up tires of have annoying noises and vibrations. It's very important to properly repair a wrecked motorcycle.

Once you have made sure your rims, suspension, and frame are all straight you can continue on to repair the cosmetic damage. While replacing damaged parts this is a good time to think about upgrading or customizing your bike with aftermarket parts. Many times these aftermarket parts are cheaper than OEM parts. Many people that are rebuilding bikes choose to go with aftermarket sportbike fairings as they are a fraction of the cost of OEM fairings. If you shop your parts well, you should be able to get away with rebuilding one pretty cheap.