Remove the visible 1/4 turn fasteners on the Side Cowlings, there's 6 or 7 per side, some come out and some are "washered" on from the other side, and stay on, so don't force them out.

Then remove the Side Cowling Inner Panel, this is in 2 pieces split up the middle, the black panels above the front fender, there's 3 push in clips, and 4 screwdriver clips and some velcro, remove the side cowling inner panels. Also you must remove the 2 upper 1/4 turn fasteners on the Bottom Cowling Front Cover.

Now after you have the 1/4 turn fasteners removed you can begin to wiggle the Side Cowling off from the bike, rear first. The front of the cowls that go underneath the lights have a series of interlocking pats under there and you have to slide the fairing off toward the front of the bike. One the fairing clips out you can unattach the turn signal connector and the fairing is free.

If you get stuck at any point you'll just have to play with it, it took me a few times and some experimenting to be comfortable taking it off, and still sometimes I have difficulty lining up the tabs under the light. It is difficult because the ram air ducts ar on this fairing so you can easily misalign the ram

 

thanks bro.

 

I have a hell of a time getting the very front tab to come off every time. I am afraid I will break it some day. Other than that is no big deal.

I just always get stuck on that one tab.

 

ditto. that frontmost tab is a pain in the ass.

 

for that tab I turn the fairing toward 90 degrees to the bike, and it slides out more easily

 

The tip that extends a couple cm past the tab will allow it to bend?

 

yeah I kinda like twist it forward and up so that part follows the contour under the light, it's surprising how fast it pops out. One day I was having a hell of a time and decided to try....I haven't been able to put it on like that though only off......It's still a bitch.

 

im pretty much all done, sept now i cannot get the right side to sit flush against the light at all.. there is a gap between the mid and the upper undernieth the light... kinda pissing me off.

 

BAAM got it. lil intake action holding it back and not lining up... ill take pix now. brb

 

herez some pix of the flushmounts finally installed after all the BS with the mid fairings.

got a lil happy with the camera, so i took some pix of both my bikes. the R6 was pretty frosted over kuz it was outside while i was working on the 1.

 

thanks for the info... i tried to take mine off the other day and gave up... it such a biatch... surely they could have made it easier... my old cbr was a 1 minute job to get it off...

 

Just took the fairings off for the first time last night, definately much more complicated then my Honda.

 

Same here, the GIXXER was a snap.

 

can do the both mids & lower in about 1 minute
get's easier once your familiar with how it goes, & some of the plastic inserts loosen up (the ones in the nose)


& you will get very good at putting the plastic push pins somewhere safe - LMAO

 

subscribed to this thread. i'm installing my graves flushmounts this weekend hopefully. =)