cycoactive glovebox
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2000 10:53 am
I recently got a "GloveBox" from Cycoactive of Seattle. I really like this
bag and keep in it mostly stuff I hope to never get out; 1st aid kit, tire
repair kit, a few tools, etc.
I initially mounted it to the windshield itself as this seemed most
convenient. The total height of this bag is approximately the height of the
shield. I soon found on washboard roads it leveraged the fairing & shield
excessively and would not be a good long term placement. Yesterday I
discovered that the black plastic piece inside the fairing, behind the
headlight can be adjusted up to provide more support to the windshield and
better blocking of stray light from the backside of the headlight at night.
I removed the shield and used my Dremel tool to carve back 2 areas of a
horizontal ridge just below the level of where the shield meets the fairing.
This allows the top mounting hooks of the GloveBox to slip in here between
the shield and the fairing with only slight pressure applied to the shield
when installing or removing.
As a side note I completely removed the fairing to check things out under
there and found the bottom center (facing forward) mount screw hopelessly
frozen in place and 2 of my 4 front fender bolts loose. I determined the
instrument cluster must be of a "floating" variety because although all the
mounts seemed tight it still had several millimeters of vertical play.
Everything else looked good at 7 plus years and over 15,000 miles.
Ric Merry