I had a slight 'off' on my bike about 6 weeks ago - broken collar bone now repairing itself!
No major damage except for a new rocker cover - I had Llmberger covers fitted but they are basically useless in a real world crash. The bolts supplied to mount the cover stand slightly proud of the factory rocker cover and as soon as it hits the ground, even at about 10mph, as in my case, the carbon cover pulls off, the bolt grounds and bends over, punching a hole in the rocker over. They look very nice but I have bought a pair of R & G stick-on carbon-kevlar covers which look more likely to actually protect. The R & G bobbin on the final drive joint did a grand job - no damage there at all - maybe I need some fitted to my shoulders!
The other expensive damage is both the front and one of the side magnesium fairing supports - over £300. When the bike hits the ground it pushes the sprung mirror support, which is attached to the mag casting, and this is enough to fracture them. I have decided to remove both of the indicator/mirror arms and fit some Oberon bar-end mirrors. I am now finally getting to the point of this post - I already have LED's fitted in the rear indicators so I thought it would be easy to buy another of standard rear indicators and fit them to the upper part of the side fairings. I assumed that the front bulbs would be the same voltage rating as the rear (10W) but according to my BMW CDR, they are 16W, yet my Haynes manual states that they are both 10W. If they are a different wattage rating this could cause flasher problems with the CANBUS wiring system.
Can anybody help? Is there a way round it by fitting a resistor in the front wiring if indeed they are a different rating?
R1200S crash damage and new front indicator
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