Today we dressed the Daytona 675. This is a procedure we recommend everyone get familiar with. At some point, you’ll either want to service the bike, clean it, prep it for the track or, as in our case, repair/replace damaged fairings. And while it’s not exactly rocket science, you do need to be paying attention in order to do the job right. As with everything, your manual will help.

First, we attached the side fairings – first the left, then the right – joining them beneath the bike, with the triangle brace inserted in front of the radiator before bolting everything together.

We put the headlamps back into the front fairing, bolted them in, then bolted the headlamp/fairing assembly to the bike’s hard points and side fairings. Et voila! Then we turned the electronics on (come to think, you should do this before bolting everything together) and, fortunately, everything worked just fine.

Remember: Give the steering a full turn in either direction, making sure nothing catches on anything you don’t want it to catch on. In our case, we found our Ohlins damper (mounted beneath the lower triple clamp) jammed very nicely into the lower lip of the headlamp/fairing assembly when the handlebars were turned to the right. “Ungood,” as my MSF instructor used to say. We put another spacer on the Ohlins bolt and solved the problem nicely. See the Ohlins damper installation video for more.

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