Enginerd's Stuff

I have had a magnetic tank bag sitting on a shelf for the last year since the bike I moved up to has a plastic tank cover which doesn’t play well (at all really) with the magnets used to secure it. I had hoped to come up with a reasonable solution that neither involved replacing the tank bag or strapping it to the bike. Last night while chatting at bike night a light bulb went off and I knew I had an idea that would work. It just happened to be in time for a 300 mile weekend trip I’ll be leaving for tomorrow.
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As I had mentioned in previous posts I have been planning for a while now to install HID headlights in my 1000RR. I just had a few snags along the way. Originally my fiancée bought me a set for Christmas this past year, as it turned out months later when I went to install them (waited for better weather) they were the wrong bulb type. Of course having waited months to install them I couldn’t just return them, so they will be on ebay soon. I finally got around to ordering them and realized that while I was at it I would get a set for my truck too. I was super excited the day they came and went out to put the set in my truck first. I figured that I would have more room to work which would make the truck a better candidate for my first install then the bike would be second as it would likely be trickier…I was clearly wrong with this logic. After many hours of messing with them (4 or 5 to be entirely honest) and a few people looking with me I accepted defeat for the night and decided I would call the manufacturer the following day. Long story short there was one connector on each side that needed to be flipped on a select few vehicles, mine just happened to be one of them.

Install and pics after the break.
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Now that I have more or less conceded that I am done riding for the year I am putting more effort into mods.  I have been planning to put new fairings on the bike since I got it.  I finally, just this week ordered a set of after market HANNspree fairings.  This is a 19 piece kit that pretty much replaces every cosmetic surface of the bike except the windscreen and rear seat cowl.

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