Thanks for posting this. I too fell prey to the piss poor engineering. Had an '06 that I dropped harder than I did my '16 and never had this happen. I ordered the stay, the front plastic, and the instrument cluster plastic, all damaged when I dropped the bike on a crested driveway. My bike went over onto the T-Rex bars, then continued past that point. My wheels were between 10 and 11 O'clock when I got out from under the bike and when we got the bike up, I noticed my mirror laying on the ground. I was thinking, "oh, I'm going to have to find a mirror" until I picked it up and saw ABS plastic and pot metal attached to the mirror, with the nuts intact as well. It was then that I noticed the gaping hole in my fairing and the stay had snapped and was still attached to the mirror. I just went from an $80+ dollar part to over $600. I finally got all the parts in and plan on ripping into it and doing some other upgrades at the same time. This will make the front end repair much easier.I did once do this, you can see pictures of how I did it here.
You can get to that buried screw with a thin screwdriver as in this pic:
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Possible, but not the right way of doing the job.
I plan on setting up my Go Pro and putting together a step by step of the work. Once I edit that, I'll post it up for everyone else to use. I will be replacing my windscreen with a Cee Bailey, my exhaust with a Two Brothers Carbon Fiber, sending the scratched plastic off to a recommended body shop, and spooning on new Road 6GTs. Late Summer I plan on starting back on my original ride to Tail of the Dragon and checking that off my bucket list.
