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Americanrice
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 01:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Can anyone tell me how to remove the headlight bezels? I think that is what they are called, I am referring to the funny shaped, flat, black peices that go around the headlights in the fairing.

P.S. XB9R
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Boulderbiker
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 01:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

unless you're doing it to replace them... dont do it. I did, and promptly found out what they're for. The headlights when parked faced direct sun create a marvelous magnifying glass effect that will melt tracks in your fairing. Those bezels can handle the heat, your fairing cant.

If you must take them out they're basically just stuck in their with this double sided foam/tape. get it hot (heat gun, blow dryer) then gently pry them out. They're brittle so go easy.
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Daves
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 01:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

When you break them, I have a set coming back from Darthane that he didn't need!

Ride to the edge!
Dave
1-866-757-1651
Ask for Dave in the SALES dept
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Stonecoldbuellin
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 01:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

lol
whats a price on some carbon fiber ones?
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Darthane
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 02:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

LOL @ Dave
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Captainplanet
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 03:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Those get real brittle. If they have been on the bike a while and you try to remove them, they are very likely to break into multiple pieces. Superglue works wonders for them though after you get all the puzzle pieces back together.
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Al_lighton
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 09:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

American Sport Bike CF headlight bezels here:
http://www.americansportbike.com/shop/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F6214190&rnd=5642 167&rrc=N&affl=&cip=69.160.138.75&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=PROD492&cat=&catstr=
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Stonecoldbuellin
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 09:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

120 EACH!!!dayam
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Al_lighton
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 12:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Well, not each, its for the pair. Jeez.....
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Tatsu
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 12:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

They look really nice too! The Carbon fiber ones, got em on my bike. Oh and the old ones did break apart when I removed them.

(Message edited by Tatsu on August 18, 2004)
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Stonecoldbuellin
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 02:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

OOOOOOOH i thought it was EACH.
dunno probly cuz the lights i bought over the net came single.
tatsu GOT PICS?
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Steviejay01
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 10:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yea I removed mine when I had the respray, and found the bloody sun burned a track in the fecking fairing!!!
If you try and take em of they WILL snap into bits, you will need to order replacement ones or failing that put in an alloy polished metal strips to reflect the sun.

Steve
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Steviejay01
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 10:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You cant really see it but I put some Alloy foil tape on the bottom of the glass and the housing at the bottom of my lights to reflect the sun

http://steviejay69.50megs.com/images/guvnor.jpg

I freaked out when I saw it burning in the sun, jesus who would have that that eh!!!
It always seems to be the left light unit too.....lol

(Message edited by steviejay01 on August 18, 2004)
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