Well I finally decided afeter three weeks of spending the life of a lotus eater I'd better get my HB pannier rails fitted. Big mistake, I'd possibly have more chance of performing a successful heart transplant with a blunt boy scout knife.
I thought I be systematic and RTFM. So downloaded HB fitting instructions which now if you scroll right down to the end are provided in English, this saves you having to battle with schoolboy German and Google translate.
Step 1:
Preparing:
- Take off the seat, the original rear rack and the rear winker.
- Unmount rear cover.
A classic example of Teutonic brevity.
Take off the seat - no problem - done.
Take off the original rear rack- ditto
and the rear winker
unmount the rear cover
Consulted the Suzuki workshop manual to see where it tells you how to remove rear winkers. Either I can't find it or is it so incredibly simple to do that they don't bother to put it in the manual?
Unmount the rear cover: does this mean taking off the piece of plastic that goes all around the rear light and becomes the rear mudguard or the piece of plastic that is under the seat where the tools go.
I've currently said "Sod it" and put all the bits in the outhouse and going to have another attempt tomorrow.
I see that HB's fitting instructions go up to number 12, hopefully the next eleven steps will not be so fraught.
Any suggestions/pointers will be gratefully received.