For ages now I have been trying to figure out how best to fit the little led indicators from a Panigale to my yr2000 M750.
I just like their design, with their short but beefy stems, positive non-spin location and their angled faces which give good visibility while being neat and minimal.
In fact my favourite ever monster special, the NCR One-Shot uses the same std indicators despite everything else on the bike being redesigned to the Nth degree.
The project has resurfaced recently following this thread ...
http://www.ukmonster.co.uk/monster/s...r+plate+holder
...which details Buzzbomb's attempts to do the same on his streetfighter.
So .....
The other day I bought a secondhand tail tidy for an 821, equipped with two of those very indicators ... so now I have a full set.
The front ones are easy enough to fit but I have struggled to come up with a suitable way of installing the rear ones.
The problem is that their stems don't match the profile of the attachment points on the teatray ... and I'm not going to botch them on .. I'd rather stick with the std ones.
The 821 tail-tidy has shown me an alternative method of fitting them, but I remain undecided for now on which way to go.
My current thinking is that I need to remodel the teatray to do away with the indicator mounting stubs and either ...
1) recreate a mounting on the teatray which matches the Pani indicators (be that either via new stubs or simply on a suitable flat area) .. or
2) obtain/make/modify a teatray with no mounting stubs at all and instead mount the indicators separately on a tail-tidy sort of affair.
At the moment I'm leaning towards the latter option but these things sometimes have a mind of their own once you get down to the nitty gritty, so who knows where I'll end up.
I want to retain the curvy style of teatray originally fitted to my "post-facelift" monster because I just like the aesthetics and think that its an iconic "monster" character piece.
And so to the questions ....
1) Does anyone know of an "off the shelf" carbon teatray that doesn't have the indicator mounting stubs on it ?
I've spotted a couple, namely ...
https://conquestracingltd.com/produc...bre-tail-tray/
... which would be perfect except that it has the four-point fixing and my frame needs a three-point. And ...
https://www.ducati-kaemna.com/kurzes...ster-2000.html
... which wouldn't be suitable as it requires the frame ends to be cut off, which would scupper the attachment points for my homemade luggage rack.
2) Does anyone have a spare (or knackered) plastic, three-point fixing, curvy teatray that I could use to make an indicator-stub-free plug, from which to make a mould, from which to lay up my own tray from scratch.
3) Better still if anyone has the above but in carbon, which I would probably end up simply modifying as the finished piece rather than bothering to make a mould.
Sorry if that's all a bit wishy-washy but at this point I'm not sure which way to go and it probably depends to some extent on what options come up .. if any.
My preferred choice would be option 1, but I've searched and haven't found anything.
Second choice would probably be option 3.
There is an "old softy" reason for doing this in addition to the practical stuff, namely that this is a mod which I had discussed with Buzzbomb on a number of occasions and it would be a nice memento to bring the project to fruition and fitment on the bike.
Ta very much ... just for reading all that ramble.