New Skin
by znielsen on Mar.28, 2010, under Home, Motorcycles
I posted up last fall some time about a set of HANNspree fairings I ordered for my 1000RR. Well now that the weather was finally starting to act like spring I planned a trip home to pick the bike up and while I was there swap the old fairings for the new. We had beautiful weather all last week and I was really itching to get the bike together and ride. The weekend finally came and the night before I left they got 2 inches of snow where I was planning on working on the bike. I suggested bringing the bike in the house to work on it (thinking that would not go over well with mom). Turns out inside and close to the fire place was the preferred place to work.
I did a lot of reading before starting this project to find out what I was in for and while I had a good idea I still wasn’t expecting quite what we experienced. I was thinking it would be a 4-5 hour job…in reality it was more like a 8-9 hour job with 3 helpers…
I don’t have before pics right now since dad took those on his camera, but it was an all black bike with a good bit of road rash on the left side. I’ll just start right in with the pictures:
Here is the disassembled bike in the dinning room.
The tail and the nose cone were by far the hardest pieces to install. The tail is not quite as “stretchy” as the factory plastic and since it needs to be stretched over a plastic piece that is about 3 inches wider than the opening it is pretty tricky.
Here is the finished product as clean is it will ever get. Every colored part got a coat of wax before it went on and the lower and mid side fairings all got a layer of thermal insulation on the inside to help protect them from the exhaust.
After a very full day of work both bikes were ready for their long trip back. This was a very cool view out the back window of my truck on the drive back.
I can’t wait to ride it now. The first day I had it back it was 40° and raining…
I have to thank my mom and dad for helping and letting me take over the dinning room for the day and my fiancée for helping with the work.
