It seemed like I’d take the bike down for a couple of weeks, but I have an ever-increasing laundry list of things to do to the bike.

I originally thought I would take it offline for a few weeks and try and get some major farkling, maintenance, wire clean-up, and other details finished.

One of my bugaboos is that it was difficult months ago to cram low-beam HID lights in the nose of the fairing without taking it all apart. Well, I decided to do it right and this is the ugliest picture of an FJR I’ve ever seen. It scares me a little actually as major chunks of structure are now sitting on my shelf across the garage.

A little closer and you see the ballasts which are fairly big and don’t conveniently fit in the smallish nooks and crannies of the FJR nose. Fortunately, the ‘05 and earlier have more space than the ‘06 and later FJRs. I’m going to have to take a close look at Warchild’s article on the subject.