My 08 recently got blown over in the wind, onto her right side.... see, it's not ALWAYS the left side. Broke the right mirror assembly, but that's about it. the underside of the mirror's outter plastic was scratched, but the mirror itself did not break. The real damage was to the aluminum structural piece underneath. That was cracked, almost all the way through into 2 pieces. I put a bunch of JB Weld on the top side, let it dry for a day, then applied ot to the underside of the aluminum bracket. Put everything back together and you can't even tell (except for the scratches under the mirror).
I had the Dowco cover on, and they warn you about "ballooning" - the cover catching air and causing a lot of drag.
-Last point, this bike had been lowered when I bought it. I will be returning it to stock height, as a fellow COG member has sent me some of the stock brackets. I'll take the Muzzy brackets off this weekend and send those to him. I'll also push the forks back down- looks like they've been adjusted too.
Long story short, if you lower the bike, get a shorter kickstand to compensate. You think it's top heavy now--- lowering it makes it worse, at least when it's sitting still.