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April 2008

Having bought a new Datatool Digi Gear Indicator dirt cheap, (fitting guide here) I thought in an idle moment I'd fit it, having fitted one to my RRV and then moved it onto my 1000RR when I bought it in 2004, I thought it would be a simple job........

Oh how wrong was I ....... This job took the best part of 5 hours to complete, when it should have taken about 2-3 hours tops, due to..... yes you've guessed it !!!! the bikes past reared up to kick me in the b******* yet again and I found that someone possibly the previous owner had; had the bike in bit's at some point and not fitted the proper fairing screw's or retaining clips and the headlamp was only being held in by 6 instead of 7 screw's, and the top cowl wasn't even screwed to the screen brace above the headlamp, and there was me wondering why the screen shook.

Luckily I still had some fixings left over from the rebuild on the RRV in 2002 when I had my big off, and they all fitted and the fairing is now solid and not all flappy like it was when I bought the bike a couple of months ago.

I'm just wonder what other nasty surprises lay in store for me, on what seemed like a decent low mileage 954, when I first clapped eye's on it in January, so either the dealer's I got it from just didn't bother to check it over properly, but in their defence you couldn't see the missing headlamp fixings untill the top cowl was taken off, but the missing screws in the inner fairing panels should have been caught, by them and I probably should have seen it when I looked at the bike, but didn't, but from the bit's I've found missing which were all the inner/lower fairing panel screws and retaining clips or messed up (indicator wires - see page 4 **) I'd say the previous owner had some goodies fitted and just wasn't bothered about putting things back properly or at all in some cases when he took them off to part-ex the bike.

Let this be a cold hard lesson well learned, so take a fine tooth comb with you next time you go to buy a second hand bike..... I will forsure.

I'm not overly impressed and, can't decide whether to go back and kick up a fuss or not at present, I can guess what they'll say though .....