| Happy New Year from Snowy Japan. Came back from California and had a nice snow storm the next day. Kind of precludes riding for a while. SO, I started to wrench on my new ST4. Decided to take the side panniers off for the time being and see what it is like to ride without having to worry about a big butt.
Anyway, pulling the beast out of my very narrow bike garage, I popped the left mirror off while I was watching to the rear. It seems there would be two springs to this but I only found one. Is this a repairable accident if the spring can be found. If so, any tips on how it is done?
Next, I decided that was not so bad, and continued with the original task. Did the right side alright (a little cold outside though) and moved over to the left. Pulled the screws from the pannier bracket at the bottom on the passenger peg and then undid the exhaust muffler. Tried to bolt that back up to the original bracket and the screw would not go in very easily. Not wanting to strip anything, I pulled it out, moved the exhaust hanger out of the way and inspected the threads in the bracket.....basically very stripped all the way to the other side! I did not even get that far on the initial turns, so I think this was done when mounting the panniers before I picked up the bike at the dealer. Anyone have this kind of problem?
Cheers ( I want to ride this thing while I still have some New Year vacation left!)  |