Today I brought the bike home in my truck. As the bike came from a much drier climate I’m sure the cold and rainy trip home came as a shock to the old girl.
The fairing was removed to make it easier to hook the front straps onto the frame — you can just see the windshield of the fairing behind the back tire. The bike looks pretty nice without the Pacifico Aero XP fairing. One interesting thing about the fairing install, all of the electrical stuff that was originally in the headlight bucket is now a black box where the headlight should be. The box is Tupperware painted black! Cool idea, actually, Tupperware as a waterproof electrical box.
During transport, the bike was held in place using four straps and was riding on it’s own suspension (i.e. no stand). The straps were tightened down to compress the springs a bit. We had three guys to get the bike into the truck, so that was easy. I took it off without extra hands — just me and gravity. It went fine, but it truly was white-knuckle time.
