Need help from an BCR (lower fairing) owner

[Jozef Schumann]

Hello Gentlemen - As some of you know, I've purchased an '03 'prep' and am in the process of refurbishing it to my liking, which happens to include fitting a lower fairing which is a fiberglass version of the original, obscenely pricey carbon version. Once the fairing arrived I took a look through Max's fiche and decided it would fare me well to purchase the factory mounting kit instead of putzing around resorting to some form of back yard hackage. Well, after a couple of hundred bucks in hardware, I still need some guidance on how the parts are actually situated. The forward cross brace is straight forward at first glance, but there are several - what appear to be delrin or some such material spacers/bushing's and a whole gamut of clip nuts, screws, long bolts, etc. I can't find any suitable illustration depicting how it all fits together. Below are a couple of photos of my parts. Can someone with either a BCR or another r11s owner who's fitted one of these help by providing some details (... a pic is worth yadayada). Your input is greatly appreciated.






J.S.

[peterz]

The rubber/delrin bits fit into the holes the center stand attaches to.
If you bike has a center stand you'll need to remove it.
One side takes the longer rubber piece, it should be obvious once you fit the belly pan.

[peterz]

Oh, and to fit the belly pan, you need a stand that allows the side stand to be free.
And it cannot be the center stand
A baxley or similar chock stand works well.

Only one long bolt, for the front bracket to the engine.
Then 4 black screws to each of the belly pan holes.
The 2 clip nuts are for the front bracket for 2 of the black screws.
The rubber bushings are threaded already, the other 2 black screws fit there.
The longer rubber bushing goes on the brake side.

Hope this helps.

[Jozef Schumann]

Originally Posted by peterz

Oh, and to fit the belly pan, you need a stand that allows the side stand to be free.
And it cannot be the center stand
A baxley or similar chock stand works well.

Only one long bolt, for the front bracket to the engine.
Then 4 black screws to each of the belly pan holes.
The 2 clip nuts are for the front bracket for 2 of the black screws.
The rubber bushings are threaded already, the other 2 black screws fit there.
The longer rubber bushing goes on the brake side.

Hope this helps.

peterz,
helps heaps and thank you so very much. Upon debagging, everything became rather obvious. I didn't see the bushings were fitted with threaded inserts. The trial fit revealed an approximate 15-20mm gap on both sides between the pan and bushings. It appears to be a prime location for some type of isolator or rubber anti-vibe spacer? Also, the sidestand makes contact with the pan, but I believe there's a resting bracket or some sort of snubber for it to lean against when retracted as it made metal/metal contact which just isn't BMW-like. What does your sidestand rest against and does your pan fit flush up against the bushings? - If so, I reckon this fiberglass repro has a rather robust tolerance spread which will require me to fab up some spacers. No big wow.

Also, you're spot on with the requirement for some type of auxiliary stand. Here's a couple of shots of my skeleton bike on its abba stand.








J.S.

[peterz]

Jozef,
9, 10 & 11 are what you need from the below diagram.
9 has a rubber cap and threads into a hole in the frame.
Its length is set by 11 so you can adjust for your stand as you like.
There should be a hole in the belly pan for the head of 9 to poke through.

[Jozef Schumann]

peterz. PERFECT! - If you were closer, I'd invite you for a Hefeweizen or two!

J.S.

[peterz]