Thursday, August 21, 2025

My bike, Footrest and fairing

The riders side front rear set was snapped on the heal guard, I had previously got the replacement I just needed to get round to fitting it.


As I swapped everything over I cleaned, polished and replaced all the nuts and bolts with replacement stainless items.

Rear set main bolts, M8 x 30mm socket head x 2 plus 2 x M8 nyloc nuts

Spring bolt pedal side, M6 nyloc nut

Rear brake cylinder plunger nut, M6 nyloc nut

Mater cylinder bolys 2 x M6 x ? bolts plus 2 x M6 Nyloc nuts

Fairing lowers

I decided to fit the decals I had previously bought to the fairing lowers. 

Using the original sales brochure as a guide I started with the big 'A' in line with the front of the fairing edge. the lower part will overlay on the fairing vents so some cutting is required.

Next I fitted the green and red triangles, because of the curves I cut them in to two separate parts and installed them separately, I used a hair dryer hear to get round the corners.

Next the white 'aprilia' word, the 'P' bleeds in to the white and used spaced accordingly.

Next, sponsor stickers, these just aligned as per brochure.

Thoughts? Firstly I will say some of the scale of these stickers is questionable, so it is difficult to make it look 100%. Secondly I think I made the white spacing a little tight, if I did it again (and I may do) and would make the white lines thicker. But there is no instructions for this, you just got to give it a go and if it looks right to the eye, it probably is.



OG panel for reference 

UPDATE

Feeling brave I decided to see if I could remove the flag elements and re-position them, this worked out much better than expected and I am much happier with the placement now.




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