Today I spent pretty much the whole day fitting my fairings to the bike.
The fairings are the ABS chinese ones that you can get these days and need a bit of "adjusting" to get everything to line up properly.
I used a grinding stone on the end of a Dremel to open up some holes to take rubber grommets.
I had to drill some holes and rivet on the Dzus brackets.
I also had to open up the holes were the rear vision mirrors attach.
The RH rear side fairing has a push in spigot for a bung in the tank that is just too big to actually push in
The LH rear side fairing was totally missing the push in spigot for the tank bung. So I will have to sort these out in due course, but it is not a show stopper for now.
It didn't seem like it was going to be a big task, but it sure took some time.
Probably the worst fitting parts are around the rear brake lights. Especially the piece with the seat latch keyhole in it.
Somehow I doubt that the people that make these fairings have actually tried to make improvements to the way the fairings fit the bike.
Anyway here are some pics of the bike with the fairings fitted.
Note that I forgot about the front radiator surround. Ran out of time for it today.
I finished working on it approx. 8pm and I thought I would take it for a spin up to Dave's about 10km away.
I pushed it out of the shed and gave it a kick.
It started and ran for 3 seconds and stopped. It then would not start again.
I was pretty tired, so I just pushed it back into the shed and thought that I will look into it tomorrow.
But after a few minutes, I just couldn't resist a bit of a tinker.
I removed the rear fairings and played around with the TPS plug and also pulled apart and re-twisted up a wire to wire connection on one of the PGM wires that was done in a bit of a hurry when I was swapping PGM's a few days back.
I also put in a fully charged battery from a FXR150. It is a bit too tall to enable the riders seat to go on, but I was still able to connect it up and give the kick start a good kick.
Well the bike fired up and ran sweet.
So I re-assembled the rear fairings and swapped back to the old battery, which doesn't seem to hold its charge all that well, but does still basically work.
The bike still fired up easy enough and ran well.
So I grabbed my helmet and took off up to Dave's just taking it pretty easy. It was now dark
At this stage the rev counter, Speedo and temp gauge are not working.
I need to seal up around the headlight as some light from the headlight leaks back into the riders face at night.
The bike ran well to Dave's where I stopped and had a bit of a chat.
Left Dave's at 10pm and got about 1.5km down the road and the bike stopped as if the kill switch had been flicked.
In the dark I was able to give the TPS connector a bit of a squeeze. But to no avail.
I pushed the bike back to Dave's. This was a bit of an up hill mission.
I left the bike at Dave's and he gave me a ride home in the car.
Got home 11pm and wrote up this post.
Not sure what the problem with the bike is.
It sure was a disappointing end to a reasonably productive day.
All I need to get a Warrant of Fitness (M.O.T, Inspection) is a speedo cable and a park light.
The fairings are the ABS chinese ones that you can get these days and need a bit of "adjusting" to get everything to line up properly.
I used a grinding stone on the end of a Dremel to open up some holes to take rubber grommets.
I had to drill some holes and rivet on the Dzus brackets.
I also had to open up the holes were the rear vision mirrors attach.
The RH rear side fairing has a push in spigot for a bung in the tank that is just too big to actually push in
The LH rear side fairing was totally missing the push in spigot for the tank bung. So I will have to sort these out in due course, but it is not a show stopper for now.
It didn't seem like it was going to be a big task, but it sure took some time.
Probably the worst fitting parts are around the rear brake lights. Especially the piece with the seat latch keyhole in it.
Somehow I doubt that the people that make these fairings have actually tried to make improvements to the way the fairings fit the bike.
Anyway here are some pics of the bike with the fairings fitted.
Note that I forgot about the front radiator surround. Ran out of time for it today.
I finished working on it approx. 8pm and I thought I would take it for a spin up to Dave's about 10km away.
I pushed it out of the shed and gave it a kick.
It started and ran for 3 seconds and stopped. It then would not start again.
I was pretty tired, so I just pushed it back into the shed and thought that I will look into it tomorrow.
But after a few minutes, I just couldn't resist a bit of a tinker.
I removed the rear fairings and played around with the TPS plug and also pulled apart and re-twisted up a wire to wire connection on one of the PGM wires that was done in a bit of a hurry when I was swapping PGM's a few days back.
I also put in a fully charged battery from a FXR150. It is a bit too tall to enable the riders seat to go on, but I was still able to connect it up and give the kick start a good kick.
Well the bike fired up and ran sweet.
So I re-assembled the rear fairings and swapped back to the old battery, which doesn't seem to hold its charge all that well, but does still basically work.
The bike still fired up easy enough and ran well.
So I grabbed my helmet and took off up to Dave's just taking it pretty easy. It was now dark
At this stage the rev counter, Speedo and temp gauge are not working.
I need to seal up around the headlight as some light from the headlight leaks back into the riders face at night.
The bike ran well to Dave's where I stopped and had a bit of a chat.
Left Dave's at 10pm and got about 1.5km down the road and the bike stopped as if the kill switch had been flicked.
In the dark I was able to give the TPS connector a bit of a squeeze. But to no avail.
I pushed the bike back to Dave's. This was a bit of an up hill mission.
I left the bike at Dave's and he gave me a ride home in the car.
Got home 11pm and wrote up this post.
Not sure what the problem with the bike is.
It sure was a disappointing end to a reasonably productive day.
All I need to get a Warrant of Fitness (M.O.T, Inspection) is a speedo cable and a park light.
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