What have you done with your V-Strom today?

[jmee54]

Right I've spent half an hour fannying about trying to post pictures and looking for instructions and have failed at both. - Last try!
Fitted a Givvy bash plate. I'm sure it has been shown before, but Hello, it's new to me.

It was abit of a fiddly pig to fit, with instructions that were at best basic, but I switched on logic mode and engaged triple jointed and extended fingers and after re tapping the main bolt which didn't fit the nut, managed to get it sorted.

[jmee54]

YEY!!!!!



Do I need to paint it black?

[TLPower]

Is you Mick Jagger?

[jmee54]

I see a bash plate and I want it painted black. No silver anymore I want it to turn black.

Or do I?

[tallpaul]

Very tuneful 

Looks fine as it is to me.

[user650]

Black I think 

[Asmith61]

  I like it TL power  it looks fine in silver jmee54

[Cefarcat]

I have one fitted to my DL1000 2015 and had it powder coated black, my opinion much better in black

[jmee54]

Hmmm, black looks good, but now it's on, can I be arsed?

[SuzukiSte]

Go On You Know you want to

[Brockett]

Leave it silver, paint the tank black, and look out for invisible paint for the beak.

[jmee54]

Brockett, you know you have no sense of aesthetics. Yellow is the new black. Don't know about silver though! And - beaks are cool, pug noses are so yesterday.

[Fat Rat]

Beaks are  pointy pointlessness.

[Brockett]

Aesthetics eh?
All than running ,jumping and throwing things.
eh ? what?
Ah the beak .... an adornment without purpose.
Not ( of course) anything to do with stealing the look of a GS. ( to have copied anything else would only have introduced unacceptable unreliability).
The very essence of motorcycles is an absence of frivolity. They should be fat free and purposeful. I look back, wistfully, to the days of 6 volt electrics and kick starters when your arms were the only indicators and chains had to boiled in grease every month. Bah ! 

[jmee54]

I believe 'twas Suzuki who introduced the beak and BMW that stole the idea. It is but a small strip of plastic, that in my humble opinion, gives the front of the V strom a much needed touch of style sadly lacking in the old model.

My Guzzis fit the bill of naked no frills motorcycling 

[bosnjo]

Arrived to the dealer today. Will pick it up in about a week.

[porter]

Very nice bosnjo. Be interesting to hear what you think compared to the 14

[Fat Rat]

I believe 'twas Suzuki who introduced the beak

Suzuki spent a disproportionate amount of time making that very point at the 2014 DL1000 launch, I think they realised they had dropped a design bollock, maybe it looked better in the design drawings.

The beak looks less ridiculous on the current models, (but still ridiculous) the one they bolted to the 650 XT is just embarrassing.

[jmee54]

Classy 2017 v boring 2014. Both excellent bikes, just that 2014 needs a face lift!

[Jeff in Wales]

Fitted Oxford heated grips to the 650. What a faff. The adventure version grips are a little too long so took a sharpe knife to the ends. Should have measured first and gone for another version. Cutting the raised bits off the throttle sleeve and smoothing it was a pain.

Stuffed the excess wiring and connectors underneath the front of the tank - bit lazy; began removing the tank to run the wiring more neatly but lost my nerve.

Used a 22mm copper plumbing saddle to secure the controller mounting bracket to the bars until I can make something better.

Feeling more vibes through the Oxford grips so will have to try refitting the Grip Puppies.