I just got back from Home Depot...
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From: GTS-1000 Owners List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Derek Baylor
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 2:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Givi rack installation
If you're careful, a simple matte knife will do the job nicely. Of course a
Dremel is a fabulous tool, so any excuse you can find to buy one...
I'll look for the GIVI instructions and see if my girlfriend can scan them
at work.
I followed her to NYC after she got a swanky new job here. I work in the
theater biz, so New York is not a bad place for me either. We chose
Brooklyn to avoid the extreme housing prices is Manhattan.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Garcen and Angela Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Givi rack installation
> Looks like I'm buying a dremel (I have been cursed with two horrible
> disease - anal retentiveness and neatness).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GTS-1000 Owners List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Derek Baylor
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 12:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Givi rack installation
>
>
> I installed a GIVI Wingrack on my GTS, and yes, the painted panels do need
> to be trimmed. When I mounted my rack, I forgot to make this adjustment
> before the rack was almost totally installed, and I ended up chiseling
away
> the offending bodywork with a flat-bladed screwdriver (like the hack that
I
> sometimes am). I think I still have the instructions around somewhere if
> you need to see them. Basically, they call for cutting away as much of
the
> panel as is necessary (about 0.25" - 0.5").
>
> -Derek
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Garcen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 12:20 PM
> Subject: Givi rack installation
>
>
> > The GTS I bought a month ago had a Givi wingrack and top bracket
> installed. Yesterday I noticed that both painted fairing
> > side panels (the ones right under the seat) were loose. In each panel,
two
> of the three plastic pins that "plug" into rubber
> > chassis grommets were not in the grommets. It seems that the bent sheet
> metal Givi brackets that come down vertically from
> > under the passenger seat area prevent the faring panels from seating all
> the way. The black inner plastic (where the relays
> > are attached) is cut way for these vertical brackets, but it seems that
> the painted outer panels have to be trimmed also. I
> > don't have any instructions for the Givi rack, so I can't verify that it
> was installed correctly. My question is this: In order to
> > have the side fairing panels seat correctly when installing a Givi rack,
> is it necessary to trim those fairing panels? Thanks.
