the turn of the screw (or lack thereof)

i am really beginning to hate these mounting brackets.

what should be a simple 90 minute installation is turning into the project from hell, with just about everything going wrong that possible could. i finally got time this evening to sit down and try to get this thing done, after my lesson from eastside motosports. so i sit down and grab my #3 philips screwdriver to take off the headlight and...wait. i don't have a #3 screwdriver. and neither does mein papa. i'm grounded before i get to the runway. so it's off to home depot to buy a screwdriver.

returning home with my shiny new #3 philips, i expertly remove the headlight (with the help of some CCR and a ninkasi spring reign ale), and start to remove the mounting brackets. everything is going swimmingly, and both brackets are soon removed without a hitch. the problems start again when i try to resecure the headlight bracket bolts without the fairing mounting brackets (are you keeping all these brackets straight?). as it turns out, the brackets for my bikini fairing double as the nuts for the headlight bracket bolts. without those brackets, the headlight bolts can't secure. and, of course, i don't have the right size nuts on the ole tool bench. roadblock # 637 on this project.

so, once again i have to delay the project until i have time to return to home depot yet again, and give myself time for more potential trips (i've learned to anticipate multiple trips from many home improvement projects with dad). the worst part is, i had to reinstall the mounting brackets, simply to secure the headlight so i can ride her over the next few days. insult to injury indeed.

my 90 minute quick and easy installation is now going on 2 days, and i won't be able to get to it again until thursday, when i actually have a day off, and have more than an hour to try to get this damn thing done.

on a side note (it's only a side note because of this stupid windshield, otherwise i'd reflect on it a bit more), i'm trying to only use the truck when i absolutely need to, which is basically for hurling practice (irish sport, of which team i am manager this year. that means lots of equipment) on tuesdays and thursdays. the rest of the time, i'm on the bike. so far so good, and i'm enjoying the hell out of it.

anyway, hopefully next time i post i will actually have pics of this thing mounted, instead of some new complication to complain about.

until then,

rftc,

scott