This slot if for what ?? please enlighten me

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OK maybe I am missing something or have forgotten something.. more like it.
I have a set of side covers for an RGS which I bought out of Italy a while back, they have a slot above the RGS badge on both sides that doesnt appear to have been cut into them at a later date. For the life of me I cannot see any rhyme nor reason for them so thought I would put it out to the experts here.
Yeh I hear ya that the Corsa badge is not in the correct spot and the colour is wrong.
Interestingly I have found a picture of another RGS that has the same slots.. this bike is out of Germany I believe.
 

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I believe in some markets it is a statutory requirement to be able to see the brake fluid level, I suspect it is something to do with that.  Never seen them in Oz though, all are the normal smooth type.  The later SFC1000's had a hole in the LHS for that reason. 
I'd guess some dumb eurocrat-inspired rule arrived in the mid 80's, and the sidecovers you're seeing were from very late batch RGS's (they kept making them in dribs and drabs, and if memory serves the very last triple to be built in 1989 was an RGS for Enzo in Belgium).
Cheers
Steve B
 
Steve is right I think if this slot is just on the left side of the bike. Easy check: if you can see the brake fluid reservoir through it, that's why its there.
 
troutbishop said:
If I remember right my mk2 monty had one too but it was horizontal and only on the one side.
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Correct, I have a horizontal slit in the right side panel of the Mk1 Montjuic and when viewed you can see the rear master reservior.

Geoff
 
The slot is to comply with US safety regulations which state that brake fluid level/brake wear must be visible for checking without dismantling any body work.

Japanese bikes had pointers fixed to the levers on drum brakes, BMW had little windows cut into the side of the drum to check brake shoe wear... Laverdas got slots cut in the sidepanels.  By then, front M/Cs had translucent reservoirs or had a level window.

For a change, not eurocrat inspired, but rather DOT. :D

Somehow, these US-destined sidepanels were fitted all bikes of all markets, perhaps because Luigi got carried away and slotted the entire stock. :o

piet
 
sfcpiet said:
Somehow, these US-destined sidepanels were fitted all bikes of all markets, perhaps because Luigi got carried away and slotted the entire stock. :o

piet
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it doesn't really look to me as if it's all just hand slotted, I think it was part of a changed mould at some point in time during the fabrication, no?

Wonder why they never made an "easy access" to the fuse-box...  :-[ On the 1000 SFC it's just 4 screws and disconnection of the tail-light wires, but still a pain if you have to do that at road-side, as it takes some Minutes and typically your fingers are covered in grease from the chain-grease that rust-protects if you will the hole seat-unit and frame in that area if to much or the wrong type is applied...  >:D

Easier on the RGS I suppose as its just the side-pannel you need to dismount, right?
 
Laverdalothar said:
Wonder why they never made an "easy access" to the fuse-box...  
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'Cos it's italian?? :D

Just a built in form of punishment for buying such a shit heap beautiful motorcycle.

piet >:D
 
:D You like them, do you...?  :D :D :D

Have seen a nice modification from a guy in Hannover that cut out a triangular piece of material with a very thin saw or a dremel or so. He then installed some kind of bracket with some welded-on nuts so he can mount this triangular plate back into place with three screws. If I only had a spare seat-unit... preferable in carbone...  :D
 
Hey All

Sorry just having a Tim moment........

Put some hair around it ! ............. :D

                    Cheers
                            Matt
 
Laverdalothar said:
On the 1000 SFC it's just 4 screws and disconnection of the tail-light wires
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Lothar,

Do you really find removing the SFC1000 (or 1000SFC!) seat unit easy?  Yes, there are only the rear bolts, side screws and electrical connectors, but then the fun starts......

I have to really flex the front sides apart to clear the Koni shock springs (normal Koni type) and trying to do that whilst lifting it away without chipping paint is very tricky - evidently too tricky for the last owner, going by the amount of paint that had been chipped all the way up the rear edge of those 'side panels'.  By the way, I have the later fibreglass moulding with the rectangular location for the seat.

This is the one area where I really envy RGS owners, along with underseat storage.  I have been pondering if there is any way that the seat unit could be modified to allow the seat itself to be removed and give access to the space in the seat hump; clearly not easy and would need another seat unit to experiment with - that might be the end of that then!

Cheers, Andy 
 
Wholly shit!

I've just bought an RGS.  8) What a wonderful bike.

Ain't this website wonderful??

Should I shy away from buying an SFC 1000?

No, I don't think so, but I will endeavour to remove the bloody seat unit without the aid of copious amounts of alcohol!

If an (albeit specialist) Italian factory worker can put the damn thing together, I'm sure we all can, expats together, put the damn thing back together again. Without spaghetti and garlic suppers.

Christ, wastheproblemhere?
Duh!
A slightly confused DoC!

 
DoC! said:
Wholly shit!

I've just bought an RGS.  8) What a wonderful bike.

Ain't this website wonderful??

Should I shy away from buying an SFC 1000?

No, I don't think so, but I will endeavour to remove the bloody seat unit without the aid of copious amounts of alcohol!

If an (albeit specialist) Italian factory worker can put the damn thing together, I'm sure we all can, expats together, put the damn thing back together again. Without spaghetti and garlic suppers.

Christ, wastheproblemhere?
Duh!
A slightly confused DoC!
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Doc,

Apparently you have not yet tried your hand at a 1000SFC!  A completely different kettle of fish to the RGS, and not all to the better, I can assure you!  Each and every 1000SFC officially imported to Germany had the seat unit customised to fit the frame, not a single unit fitted straight out of the box!!  Specialist worker??  Italian??  Wassat??

Shy away?  Not really, just not as easy as a RGS to live with, and it helps if you're not too much of a shortarse, the reach to the bars is looooooong!

piet (too small for one, but then, I don't really like 'em! :D)
 
Not to be too controversial here  :P, but shouldn't short arses be confined to 750's, and long arses be confined to 1000's?
It makes sense to me, but there again i'm a 120 pooftah loving weak left wristed long arse with an ever increasing love of anything with a 120 badge.
I test drove an SFC many moons ago and loved it but couldn't afford it.
That was my mistake, and as a long arse, I missed out on a good investment.
Besides, the SFC really looks the dogs bollocks to me.
Seat problems? You've got Allen keys and  bit of nous haven't you? If not, hit the fcuking thing with a 2lb hammer or a sized 12 boot.
It works on wifey so why shoudn't it work on your pet bike?

Ouch

DuC!
 
Coin slot yes I love it..
Now why didn't I think of that hey.

Seriously one of my bikes came from the U.S. and doesn't have the slot and have spent a fair bit of time in the U.S. over the years and not came across this. So am suspecting most likely for one of the Euro markets.
Anyways the mystery is solved... bunch of knowledgeable blokes here that's all I can say. Thank you for scratching an annoying itch I have had for some time.
 
Mmmh - should make a vertical slot into the side-covers of my bikes, only 2 millimeters high but roughly 5 wide - just to accept credit cards, as really I can't pay what goes into it with coins anymore...  :-[

The good thing though is, that with these new, lighter gel batteries, there is room for a coin-reservoir...  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
 
2622 said:
Coin slot yes I love it..
Now why didn't I think of that hey.

Seriously one of my bikes came from the U.S. and doesn't have the slot and have spent a fair bit of time in the U.S. over the years and not came across this. So am suspecting most likely for one of the Euro markets.
Anyways the mystery is solved... bunch of knowledgeable blokes here that's all I can say. Thank you for scratching an annoying itch I have had for some time.
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+1. I've never seen this slot on any RGS in the US or any other bike. I'd chalk this one up to yet another Euro zone foible.

Now, you wanna talk 85mph speedometers, we'll take the blame...  :P
 
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