K pannier fixed

As Sod's Law has it, after four years of not seeing a single dark blue K
LT pannier on eBay anywhere, and just after I bought an ordinary
mismatched used black one, a pair came up on Fleabay.

This afternoon I've been replacing the bust footrest plate and pannier
bracket. Coo, that's a task and a half. I naively thought it would just
be a matter of unbolting the alloy plate, mounting the footpegs onto the
replacement, and botling it back on. I didn't realise that all the rear
brake gubbins (slave cylinder, pedal, switch, plumbing) is all bolted to
the inside of the plate and has to be transferred as well.

And there was one allen bolt that matched *nothing* in the BMW toolkit
and *nothing* in my (extensive) toolkit. In the end, I found a Torx head
that was exactly the right size, and used that.

Still, it gave me a chance to sort out my tool box.

 

Heh.
There is always one, often because someeone has stripped and rethreaded
it to some larger size that just happened to be around. I keep finding
the odd metric bolt on SOBantams etc.

You can never have enough tools.

 

Whenh i had to take off the GAY heelplates on the R1, one allen bolt was
mullered & nothing would fit, sio I hammered a torx driver in & off it
came...

 

I just took out two of the XJ900s fairing bolts to give them a quick
polish as they were pretty furry. Bad idea, first one went fine, second
one the rubber captive nut fell off the back. Turned a 15 second job
into half an hour :-(

 

Bid for them you can always ditch the plain ones. When /if you sell
the bike the buyer will want blue ones.

Also given the rate you go through panniers and pannier lids, about
one a year, you will need them eventually.

Boxerboy

 

Bid for them? I've got 'em.

Thanks. You are, of course, right.

 

I saw a K1100LT yesterdat, it was a trike with panniers still on & it looked
like a well beaten prostitutes rectum slaver.

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

 

Clean and wax new panniers

Wrap in bubble wrap

Put in loft

Retain unpainted ones on bike to get bashed / catch dustcarts.

Boxerboy