Took me half a day to work it out.The only way I could make it work was to pack out the front mount to raise it 5mm or so, otherwise nothing was gonna line up. As time goes on and I have used the system a few times, it has sort of worn itself in but it is nowhere near as easy to use as I had anticipated and should probably have dzus underneath the fairing lower to make up for the difficulty removing the upper!
What is this Bob Brown clutch of which you speak?
I used to go down to Kensington with my Pantah before I learnt to do the work myself. Used to try to hit him up for info, he didn't like that very much and I feel kinda bad about it considering how much he's been screwed over for his ideas.
--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Michael Toomath <bandmtoomath@...> wrote:
>
> Hi snow bunnies in the cold lands. I've just arrived back from a 580km ride
> (round trip) down to visit my mechanic "Bob Brown" to fit up some extras, and to
> fit one of his new clutches, very sweet. Left in the 35' C heat and copped warm
> dry roads all the way down, with spasmodic speeds in the 160kph area, hill
> country and no cops. I returned in torrential rain for the last 2hrs of the
> journey and basically surfed most of the way with total white-outs when trucks
> hit the big puddles, not so sweet, but an accepted part of motorcycling even
> when one has only the leathers onboard. I weighed half as much again as usual,
> when I stepped off the bike. Still a great ride.... but!!???
> I have to ask if any other ST owners have attempted to install the fairing
> replacement brackets as supplied by a fellow lister, (no name will be mentioned
> at this point) the middle fairing has to loose 2 of the mounting lugs to do the
> job, and they cannot be put 'back on' once this is done. Then 2 stainless steel
> bands hold the upper fairing in place (with zoos, miss spelling intended, male &
> female fasteners) to enable the middle/lowers fairings to be removed while the
> upper fairing stays in place. I figure you know what I'm on about and possibly
> the product, and it's source. We (Bob, 40 years Ducati mechanic) and I toiled on
> this for *%#!ing hours and there is no way, and I say "no way" that it is
> possible to do, as is said, with this product. So anyone who has gone the same
> way as I did and made the fairing removal more difficult, for the rest of time,
> could you tell me if you had positive results with the fitment. And if so, how
> did you do it? My fairings still require the removal of the lot, as the lowers
> will not go into position without knocking the fasteners out of line. And the
> brackets themselves are too tight across the space to easily fit the male to the
> female and hold the fairings together, and the pre drilled holes on one side
> didn't line up with the fairing holes. All together a pain in the arse, and
> thumbs. Feed back would be appreciated, as from where I stand at the moment I
> would not recommend this system to my worst enemy.
> Not normally a bleeding heart, ride safe.
> Mike, 2003, ST4s, 'STralia
>
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