First and foremost, my apologies for the delay in posting this update. This deals with all the accessories that I had bought for the Versys 1000
The first one to go on were the Barkbusters.
Next on the bike were the Hepco & Becker Engine guards. I did agonise quite a bit between these and the ones offered by SW Mototech - but then I decided to go with these since I felt they were a good balance between too much and too little. Moreover, they also worked well with the way in which I wanted the Baja Designs Squadron Pro Aux lights to be installed.
In today's traffic scenario, I believe that it is extremely important that every vehicle has a dash cam. From my perspective, its not so much to post videos of riding exploits on YouTube, but its more towards ensuring that there is footage that can come to your rescue in case of any unfortunate incident - even if that did not involve you or your vehicle, but purely due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I have a perfect scenario for this. Many times, when I am on my way to my work on the Z900, I have these kids on various KTM machines pull up and try to incite me into racing with them. Needless to say, my way of putting them off is to further reduce speed. But there have been a few cases where, after failing to get the expected response from me, they have just blindly opened their bike's throttle not expecting to find another vehicle in front of them, and thereby causing an accident. Even though one is riding a Superbike responsibly and is no way involved, our Indian psyche is to blame the bigger/more powerful vehicle. A dash cam, I believe, provides the evidence required to prove that your vehicle was in no way involved.
I had, for my Z900, used a lesser known brand in India called INNOVV. For the Versys though, I went with the Viofo M1 Motorcycle DashCam. This setup comes with a DVR which is mounted out of sight, a GPS module which provides speed data and also two 1080 HD Cameras for front and rear. Installation instructions as well as a whole lot of different accessories for mounting the cameras are provided and it takes about an hour with your FNG for Superbikes to have it up and running.
Below is front camera mount - this requires a minor re-positioning which I will get done real soon. It needs to be moved forward by a centimetre.
This is the rear camera placement.
The DVR goes under the seat. This DVR records both video and sound - so you have the engine note as well with a side track of gearbox whine
Another important accessory that is a must have, is the radiator guard. I recently changed this component on my Z900 and replaced it with a locally designed and manufactured one. I liked that a lot and therefore, I commissioned the same shop to design, manufacture and install one for the Versys 1000 as well. I am pretty happy with the job done.
At this point, I am done with about 70% of the accessories that I had planned. Some pictures of the bike at this point.
One issue that I had found even on the day on which I took delivery was that the lights were not aimed properly. In fact, if I rode two up, the lights illuminated the tree line rather than the road.
When I installed all the accessories, I took the opportunity to set up the lights in the way in which I wanted. The results are in the pics below.
The first picture is that of the low beams.
The next one is of the low beams and high beams.
The third, comprises of low beams, high beams and the Baja aux lights.
I am currently awaiting delivery of the side frames for Panniers from Hepco & Becker. Once that comes in, I will do the next post covering, hopefully, the installation of the SW Mototech bash plate, the panniers and the top box.
Until then, ta ta!
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