Went on a long weekend ride to Hatfield McCoys this past weekend with some buddies. Put on about 200 miles flawlessly, thing ran awesome. In the last ten miles I slip into a rock going up a trail and punctured side of my tire. Repaired it with what we had, had a spare down in the truck at the trailhead so I crept it back down the mountain. I noticed even with the spare and the repaired tire, my handlebars are sitting crooked, to the right to be more specific. I had the alignment pretty much dead on before I left (had installed All Balls tie rods/ ends a couple weeks in advance). I figured if my alignment was off it would have shown itself before I punctured my sidewall after 200 miles of riding.

I also noticed that when I try to steer right, it seems to be noticeably harder than if I steer left.

Im just curious if the power steering unit has teeth/ gears it sets in and if it was likely that I may have popped it over a tooth (check tie rods, both sides straight). The tires still seem to be straight and how I had them, Im just wondering if something got jarred when I hit the rock and when I tried to turn away (rock was on left side) it popped it over a tooth.

Not sure if anyone has had this issue. The bike is a 2013 Outlander 1k XT. Ive only seemed to find threads on people having overheat issues with their DPS