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I personally have replaced fairings on 3 CBRs. All of which came from eBay and I think all 3 were from different sellers straight from China. All turned out great. The only reservation I would have doing this on a R6 is the gas tank. On the CBR there is a plastic cover over the tank which is included in the fairing set, therefore, no worries about colors matching. I don't believe that is the case on the R6. As far as installing them just take your time. I never had to drill any holes but did use a razor knife here and there to clean out holes. If you end up ordering a set please update. I'm curious on the color match.

Glad to see you're standing in this picture after watching that video @jacobhawkins

@NinjaDoc and @jacobhawkins I am super bummed I'm missing out on this. As Doc mentioned I have plans for tomorrow and no way my wife will go for me heading out on the bike on Sunday too. I really can't hit the road on Sundays until 1 anyways so that makes it difficult for real long trips. I'm already hinting though to my wife that next Saturday is looking good for a long motorcycle ride. As long as the forecast holds I plan to make a trip to Marietta then.

I currently use 2-4 x 4s on the ground with my wheel placed on them, then using a couple pieces of 2 x 4s as levers under my 2000lb tractor I break the bead. Hillbilly engineering at its finest. I've contemplated those exact bead breakers. Thanks for your thoughts.

How do you like the bead (bread) breaker?

I think IP hit the nail on the head. I have basically been doing exactly what he stated in his posts since my return to motorcycling. I now have multiple options for gloves, jackets, pants, and a leather suit. I never would have been able to buy it all at once. Accumulate it as you go. Another option is to keep your eyes open here. I have bought a couple of things used from members here. Sometimes it's free even.

Nice. I went some time without a bike. When our second was born the wife told me the bike had to go. I would guess my girls were 10 and 11 when she said I wouldn't mind if you got a bike again. About 2 weeks later I traded her quad for a F4i and have taken a huge advantage of my second chance to be back on a bike again.

I appreciate that you made it a whole family event by having the little guy wash the bike after you and the wife went for a ride.

Good deal. How old is he?

I think so Jacob, but I am a bit partial.

My oldest loves to ride with me. When I told her that her birthday gift was a trip to the Tail, she said it was the best gift she ever got. My youngest on the other hand only likes to take short runs. I think she prefers to be seen on the bike more than anything. She often asks for me to take her to friends or pick her up from school on it.

Glad you and the wife got out Doc. Maybe next time our schedules will work to where we can meet up. It's awesome right now to ride with my daughter. I'm still amazed that at 14 she still likes to spend to with her dad. I keep telling my wife that at some point she is going to think I'm just a boring old man that knows nothing and she'll want little to do with me. For now though I'm going to enjoy the times we have until she meets some teenage punk like I was that she will be more interested in than me.

My daughter and I rode close to 300 miles today and had a blast. We spent about 5.5 hours on the bike. I think we will have a blast on our Tail of the Dragon trip this summer. After I talked to her about not trying to lean the bike and just to remain neutral we got pretty comfortable. I don't think the Q3s enjoyed the ride as much as us. I'm hoping with some extra preload added the next time they may not get as chewed up. Time will tell.

Sometimes you don't save money when you choose the DIY method.

If somebody else chimes in with a for sure by all means run with it. I will not be offended. As I said I'm a ?

I stopped at that exact waterfall and took a pic on my first trip to Deals Gap. Enjoy your ride. Looks like the weather is nicer there. It's raining here and has been most of the day.

I'll see what I can do. Would you be up to pushing your departure time back as I mentioned?

Doc I may be able to ride Sunday, but if I do, I won't be in your area until 2 or so. Then I'll probably only be able to ride 2-3hrs. I'm a big ?. I have my bike in pieces currently to check the valves. The 1st 4 I checked were in spec. If the rest are I should have the bike ready to go Sunday. My second obstacle is getting a pass from my wife. Since I was gone last Sunday and I have been in the garage every free minute this week that may be pretty difficult. So by no means don't alter your early departure for me.

See how screwed up I was. I didn't even know what it was called. I'm a math teacher. Concepts are more important to me than words.

Exactly. I think Code calls it pushing the bike under. I fought breaking that habit most of last year. Before I rode this year I set the bike on stands and practiced hanging/leaning off. Sunday was the first ride this year where I felt the roads were clean and I could really focus on what I was doing.

Prior to a ride where Danimal was following me I was riding cross threaded. He informed me at a stop on the ride of what I was doing. He politely gave me some pointers on how to go about fixing this. That is what got me to start reading about positioning and I thought I was starting to figure it out. Then after my reread of Twist of the Wrist I discovered this concept. So I guess it's back to the drawing board. I can tell you when I rode cross threaded I definitely had a lot of weight on the bars and my arms would get tired. Pretty sure I have gotten away from cross threading and I feel I'm light on the bars. I know what you mean about using up your resources. That's why I only thought about this outside peg on my last decent set of twisties on my ride Sunday.

Thanks for all the input guys. @blue03636 the video made sense as I watched it. Now as long as I did not bite off more than I can chew by diving into checking and possibly adjusting the valves on the bike I'll hopefully be making sense of what you guys are saying. (servicing a single cylinder Atv's valves sure is a lot easier than this)

This could be true, but I don't hang off to the inside on my bicycle as I do on my motorcycle.

So are you saying the pressure is more on the tank than the peg?