848 Tail Chop

[RED]

Red sir.  

Yes? Did you say something?

Oh, nevermind  

Although we had beers at The Monk only once with Scott I remember you wanting to ride more from our conversations that night. I'm glad to see you got a SBK. Congrats! Now, you'll know the reason why Ducati calls it "Superbike".   Let's go ride!

[Jester]

Ok, enough of this mindless thread jacking.... back to the topic at hand.  I decided on the comp werkes tail with the vent lights.  Looks like its going to take longer than the monster and I don't even have to cut anything besides some wires  .  I have to pretty much remove everything on the rear of the bike and the exhaust.  Why couldn't they make this simple!   

[bryant8]

Not only the rear of the bike but the under-tank side panels will have to come off since they attach to the tail section. Welcome to the pita that is a full faired bike. Everything is tupperwared together.

[Jester]

Well, 4 hours and a missing parts run to AMS later, tail chop is complete.  The kit was missing the turn signal brackets for inside the tail section, but got it taken care of.  No pics, Tara has our camera, but it looks much better!

[bryant8]

Ouch 4 hours!

Glad to hear that it's all done now.

[Jester]

Yeah, it took a bit longer than expected.  I lost almost an hour having to go fetch the parts at AMS with the bike in pieces outside.  Luckily my buddy kept an eye on it while I ran off, then we got stuck wrenching on his car for a bit..... so the whole deal really didn't take that long, but its the length of time the bike was apart.   

[bryant8]

Jacob, you ever need need a garage in to wrench give me a call