Well it did run a"round" on you. 
How To Set Up Your 800 Xc, Or Not
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That it did !
Mind you ! It was a re cut table tyre and you know what they say .........the first cut is the deepest ! 
Oh my.........oh my........
If you could "do it" with a tire, you're a MUCH bigger man than me... and I'm not afraid to admit it...
When I arrived home this morning, opened the front door and there sat the box with my engine guard.
Now I need for my time off to arrive.
How did it get inside was there someone home at the time
Glad it arrived. 
Kim got home after I left for work and it was sitting on the door steps when she got home. She just forgot to tell me it had arrived.
Now to find time to install it.
Here's what I saw when I arrived home last week.
Ok, finally had the time to at least get the guards out of their box.
Dagnabbit. . . If they are as hard to install as they were to get out of the burial shroud then I might have bit off more than I can chew. One things for sure, Givi didn't want anything to be missing when I got them. Inside the outer plastic was two wraps of bubble wrap. You know what they say, everyone acts their age until the bubble wrap comes out. And to top it off, the outer plastic sheet/wrap was melted, not glued to the inner bubble wrap. It took forever to get the outer cover open.
This is the model guards I ordered.
Well by time I had popped all the bubbles it had gotten too hot in the garage to start installing them. So stay tuned for the next adventure in the Hemibee "How To Set Up Your 800 XC or Not" saga.
Ok, finally had the time to at least get the guards out of their box.
Dagnabbit. . . If they are as hard to install as they were to get out of the burial shroud then I might have bit off more than I can chew. One things for sure, Givi didn't want anything to be missing when I got them. Inside the outer plastic was two wraps of bubble wrap. You know what they say, everyone acts their age until the bubble wrap comes out.
And to top it off, the outer plastic sheet/wrap was melted, not glued to the inner bubble wrap. It took forever to get the outer cover open.This is the model guards I ordered.
Well by time I had popped all the bubbles it had gotten too hot in the garage to start installing them. So stay tuned for the next adventure in the Hemibee "How To Set Up Your 800 XC or Not" saga.
Almost forgot. . . proof that I did get them out of the box.
I consider engine guards essential for our bikes.
I smiled when I read that part about getting the guards free from the bubble wrap.
I recently received some engine guards for my new H***a and they were heavily wrapped the same way.
But I was grateful that they were wrapped that way. Not a mark on them
I want new items like that to be perfect when I receive them. If they get marks on them in use, then that's on me and just normal "patina"
I recently received some engine guards for my new H***a and they were heavily wrapped the same way.
But I was grateful that they were wrapped that way. Not a mark on them
I want new items like that to be perfect when I receive them. If they get marks on them in use, then that's on me and just normal "patina"
Hemi, you need your House Keeping Harum to come use large banana palm leaves to fan you while you work in the heat.
Well the day has arrived. . . I was out in the garage to tackle a couple updates on the XC.
I haven't built a Devo Bike Stand yet and was trying to figure out how to secure the bike in an upright position to do the work. So . . . . . . . .
I loaded her up on the trailer.
The first mod didn't really need to be on the trailer but since she is there. . . Time to get rid of the stock foot peg rubbers
Right side
Left side
This should drop the peg height a good inch, maybe more
I haven't built a Devo Bike Stand yet and was trying to figure out how to secure the bike in an upright position to do the work. So . . . . . . . .
I loaded her up on the trailer.
The first mod didn't really need to be on the trailer but since she is there. . . Time to get rid of the stock foot peg rubbers
Right side
Left side
This should drop the peg height a good inch, maybe more
Next, round up the tools Givi says are needed for the job
A quick look at the actual bike and the test fitting of the guards I realize Givi is wrong, this is the bare minimum, plus a torque wrench not included in this photo
Another look at the instructions and another test fit, Givi says start unbolting the mounts and installing them but I notice another error. . . the right side radiator shroud is in the way, can't easily access the upper engine mount so. . .
So now the work can really begin, I place the jack and a block of wood under the engine to keep it from moving. There are several entries on multiple forums that warn against not doing this. So I'm now ready to begin on the upper engine mount. This is not the one Givi says to start with but it is the one that causes the most problems according to the info I can find on several different forums. On three different forums I have seen different folks saying "If the nut on the upper engine mount starts walking off the bolt which occurs in 50% of the guard installations, stop what you are doing, you DO NOT want this nut to walk out of the well, it is impossible in 90 to 95% of the installs to get it back in place without a near total dis-assembly of the radiator and associated parts. Well guess what, mine is in the 50% that the nut is walking out. No problems says I, I'll just stick a finger in there and hold it. Nope, that didn't work. Maybe I can just stick another socket in there and that will work. . . Nope, can't get a socket in there. So I back off and look at it again. The only way I can get to the nut . . . yep, removed the radiator and all associated parts that have to come off with the radiator.
At this time I'm about ready to take a BFH
and go up side the head of a couple engineers. . . the one's at Triumph for making it impossible to get to this one nut without major surgery and to the Givi engineer that didn't say anything about this in the piss poor instructions that came with the guards.
Now after stepping back and looking at this a little more, I think I'll give Patrick at Motorcycles Unlimited a call and see when he can get Luke, his Triumph expert to do the install. This is more than I want to tackle in the garage, on the trailer with no one else around to lend me hand.
A quick look at the actual bike and the test fitting of the guards I realize Givi is wrong, this is the bare minimum, plus a torque wrench not included in this photo
Another look at the instructions and another test fit, Givi says start unbolting the mounts and installing them but I notice another error. . . the right side radiator shroud is in the way, can't easily access the upper engine mount so. . .
So now the work can really begin, I place the jack and a block of wood under the engine to keep it from moving. There are several entries on multiple forums that warn against not doing this. So I'm now ready to begin on the upper engine mount. This is not the one Givi says to start with but it is the one that causes the most problems according to the info I can find on several different forums. On three different forums I have seen different folks saying "If the nut on the upper engine mount starts walking off the bolt which occurs in 50% of the guard installations, stop what you are doing, you DO NOT want this nut to walk out of the well, it is impossible in 90 to 95% of the installs to get it back in place without a near total dis-assembly of the radiator and associated parts. Well guess what, mine is in the 50% that the nut is walking out. No problems says I, I'll just stick a finger in there and hold it.
Nope, that didn't work. Maybe I can just stick another socket in there and that will work. . . Nope, can't get a socket in there. So I back off and look at it again. The only way I can get to the nut . . . yep, removed the radiator and all associated parts that have to come off with the radiator.At this time I'm about ready to take a BFH
and go up side the head of a couple engineers. . . the one's at Triumph for making it impossible to get to this one nut without major surgery and to the Givi engineer that didn't say anything about this in the piss poor instructions that came with the guards.
Now after stepping back and looking at this a little more, I think I'll give Patrick at Motorcycles Unlimited a call and see when he can get Luke, his Triumph expert to do the install. This is more than I want to tackle in the garage, on the trailer with no one else around to lend me hand.
That makes me really glad I have the Triumph engine guards.
I know what you mean Carl and coming real close to wishing I had gone the same route but these fit what I want a little better. It's just the dern headache of the install.
That seems to be a really difficult install for sure.
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