Joined May 2008
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Falkirk, Scotland
Following on from my carbon wrapping thread I finally got round to fitting the set of carbon ear deflectors on my first gen RSV, 2000MY.
They won't be to everyone's taste, some folk prefer the "cleaner" look of the early Mille's, but I'm quite pleased with the looks and how it turned out. Took longer than I thought, measuring the holes and getting the deflectors to line up the same on each side took a lot of patience ( and swearing :biggrin ). I was skidding myself to actually start drilling the holes in the fairing but it wasn't too traumatising in the end.
I followed Garvey's "Sticky" guide on how to do this but my measurements were slightly different to his. It seems easiest if you measure the bottom holes and mark them then drill them. Then offer the ears up to the fairing and fit them using first of all, one single fairing screw and then a second on the bottom part of the ear deflectors.
Once you have them sitting pretty well lined up, press the top of the deflectors inwards and line them up so they sit nice and even. Then mark the two top holes, drill them and again, offer up the ear deflectors and fit the screws. Don't worry if you are a few mm out here and there, its fairly easy to adjust the deflectors and tighten each screw at different rates if you need to do so to adjust them in tiny amounts.
Once tightened up, the deflectors are "drawn" into the top fairing just like Garvey mentions in his "Sticky" so despite the early RSV top fairing being a rounder shape compared to later models, the ear deflectors do indeed fit even though at first they seem like there's no danger of you getting them to sit on there in the right position.
Anyway, pictures of the finished article. As I said, some folk may not like them but different strokes for different folks, eh??!!! :-
They won't be to everyone's taste, some folk prefer the "cleaner" look of the early Mille's, but I'm quite pleased with the looks and how it turned out. Took longer than I thought, measuring the holes and getting the deflectors to line up the same on each side took a lot of patience ( and swearing :biggrin ). I was skidding myself to actually start drilling the holes in the fairing but it wasn't too traumatising in the end.
I followed Garvey's "Sticky" guide on how to do this but my measurements were slightly different to his. It seems easiest if you measure the bottom holes and mark them then drill them. Then offer the ears up to the fairing and fit them using first of all, one single fairing screw and then a second on the bottom part of the ear deflectors.
Once you have them sitting pretty well lined up, press the top of the deflectors inwards and line them up so they sit nice and even. Then mark the two top holes, drill them and again, offer up the ear deflectors and fit the screws. Don't worry if you are a few mm out here and there, its fairly easy to adjust the deflectors and tighten each screw at different rates if you need to do so to adjust them in tiny amounts.
Once tightened up, the deflectors are "drawn" into the top fairing just like Garvey mentions in his "Sticky" so despite the early RSV top fairing being a rounder shape compared to later models, the ear deflectors do indeed fit even though at first they seem like there's no danger of you getting them to sit on there in the right position.
Anyway, pictures of the finished article. As I said, some folk may not like them but different strokes for different folks, eh??!!! :-
