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No Fairing--How To Support The Brake Line Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:55 am
donsmerz
active member
So with the fairing off of the 91 K100 which is on its way to becoming my personal taxicab, how do I support the front brake line hose? Might have to make some bracket or figure out how to reuse on the the fairing brackets.
When the fairing comes off, you are left with all these "little things" that need some kind of solution--like headlight, turn signals, ignition switch and the hydraulic hose. I bought a 7 inch Chinese round headlight and modified (very slightly) a Harley custom headlight bracket. That worked great and was easy--my ideal outcome. Next i lowered the instrument cluster about 1.5 inches by simply redrilling the holes on the existing brackets 1.5 inches higher. Then I searched for a piece of steel I could mount to the two now-unused instrument cluster bracket holes and found a plain black suzuki bracket that with 4 slight bends to accomodate the forks, fit like it was made for it. I've just ordered some stud-mount turn signals to go on the brackets--bulb type not the ugly LED things on eBay which I despise (though they have the virtue of being small).
I am still fussing with the ignition switch. It will mount on a bracket to the handebar riser bolts--a typical Harley custom setup made difficult because the BMW switch doesn't really have any way to mount--no flanges or threads. So some ingenuity is required.
I think I've taken everything else off of it that I can. Took the crash bars off today. One of the rubber mounts at the motor bolt was broken but you could not tell to look at it--if you have these bars, you might want to check yours to see if they still are actually doing anything.
This thing was a mess. A friend of mine commented that the guy spent more time riding the bike on its sides than on the wheels. He had laid it down on BOTH sides--twice on the right side. Even the huge, weird x-shaped fairing and horn bracket in the front had a 4 inch crack in it.
The side-rider guy i bought it from never checked anything as far as I can tell. Removing the fairing and associated stuff, parts often fell off in my hands after one bolt was removed--the rest of the required bolts having long ago vibrated off the bike. When I bought it, he told me that he had mounted the tires himself. I immediately took it and had both tires replaced. I'm not trusting my life to that kind of "workmanship".
I am not concerned with making it pretty--if the bike treats me well this summer, I'll treat it well this winter. Right now I just want to ride it safely as a motorcylce instead of the land yacht it once was.
When the fairing comes off, you are left with all these "little things" that need some kind of solution--like headlight, turn signals, ignition switch and the hydraulic hose. I bought a 7 inch Chinese round headlight and modified (very slightly) a Harley custom headlight bracket. That worked great and was easy--my ideal outcome. Next i lowered the instrument cluster about 1.5 inches by simply redrilling the holes on the existing brackets 1.5 inches higher. Then I searched for a piece of steel I could mount to the two now-unused instrument cluster bracket holes and found a plain black suzuki bracket that with 4 slight bends to accomodate the forks, fit like it was made for it. I've just ordered some stud-mount turn signals to go on the brackets--bulb type not the ugly LED things on eBay which I despise (though they have the virtue of being small).
I am still fussing with the ignition switch. It will mount on a bracket to the handebar riser bolts--a typical Harley custom setup made difficult because the BMW switch doesn't really have any way to mount--no flanges or threads. So some ingenuity is required.
I think I've taken everything else off of it that I can. Took the crash bars off today. One of the rubber mounts at the motor bolt was broken but you could not tell to look at it--if you have these bars, you might want to check yours to see if they still are actually doing anything.
This thing was a mess. A friend of mine commented that the guy spent more time riding the bike on its sides than on the wheels. He had laid it down on BOTH sides--twice on the right side. Even the huge, weird x-shaped fairing and horn bracket in the front had a 4 inch crack in it.
The side-rider guy i bought it from never checked anything as far as I can tell. Removing the fairing and associated stuff, parts often fell off in my hands after one bolt was removed--the rest of the required bolts having long ago vibrated off the bike. When I bought it, he told me that he had mounted the tires himself. I immediately took it and had both tires replaced. I'm not trusting my life to that kind of "workmanship".
I am not concerned with making it pretty--if the bike treats me well this summer, I'll treat it well this winter. Right now I just want to ride it safely as a motorcylce instead of the land yacht it once was.
