Fitting Stucchi front crashbar set - Breav 750

[Flay]

Since it looks like we're in for four days of rain, I thought I'd fit the front crashbar set I ordered along with my Mistrals.

Hmmm. After a bit of poking around, removing the front plastic grille in front of the body, it LOOKS like I've got to remove the tank to access the top bolt where the horn is mounted?

Better to (possibly) ask a stupid question I figure, before I go to the effort .

 

[john zibell]

You can just move the tank back. There is enough slack in the fuel line and electrical cable to allow that. Complete removal isn't necessary unless you want to prevent any possible "wrench marks".

 

[Holt]

Once you've learned to remove the tank, it's quite forward.
1 8mm bolt, 1 electrical connector, 2 breather hoses and then the little bugger that confuses the most, the gasline connector.

Outer ring shall be pushed straight backwards, nothing else. No turning, no violence. Support the whole thing while you're doing it.

You'll need to dismount the tank anyway, when it's time to change the air filter.

And everything is so much easier accessable when the tank is removed.

 

[cvcaelen]

Holt wrote:

Maybe an enormously stupid question,

but is that a tonti-frame?

Christiaan

 

[Holt]

cvcaelen wrote:

Holt wrote:

Maybe an enormously stupid question,

but is that a tonti-frame?

Christiaan

Yep.
Very Tonti, indeed. Lino Tonti not only designed the frame (Which differs some from the bigblock Tonti; a bit smaller and the back swing) - but also the engine. :woohoo:

 

[Flay]

Rocking, thanks. The "cold start lever" has never really worked on the bike either, so I'll take a look at it while I have the tank off. Betcha it's kinked or pinched somewhere under there. The dealer lubed it (and it worked once), but as soon as I finished the next ride, it was stuck again...

Burned through 400 ml of oil in the stretch from 2k to 3k. I do hope that rate diminishes...

 

[bimmerheadbri]

I installed the Stucchi front crashbars on my 750 last year and did not have to remove the tank at all.

There is a very small piece of folded paper with them that should show you where to install the bolts. The only kind of modifying I had to do was to remove the small plastic piece that covers a couple of bolts on the downtubes of the frame. The bars attach here and you have to remove the plastic cover and cut it in half.

Here is a pic of mine installed

Hope yours went on just as easily.

 

[Flay]

But I have fat hands that can't get to that upper bolt properly .

Even if I could rope my smaller-handed spouse into helping, I really have to learn how to do some of this stuff myself. I can strip and rebuild a file-server in no time flat, but have never been much of a mechanic.

Thankfully, there's quite a community around these bikes. Some of whom will even put up with he same beginner questions over and over .