front turn signal Q

[Jens Pedersen]

Drev,

It's correct that the rubber supports the blinker with nothing but the
wires inside. There is an aging process in the rubber, and it will
eventually get stiff and break apart. Mine broke within a year of each
other. They are not hard to replace.

Ped
'96 "Black Stealth" GPZ
Denmark
Den 05/06/2016 21.59 skrev "Drew Blanchard" <drewblanchard at gmavt.net>:

> I put Barry (the custom blue ’96) on Fleabay and Craigslist the other day
> and got a bunch of responses.  Sadly, one way or another it needs to go
> away soon.
>
> Anyway.
>
> I’d been riding it with no problems, so was confident when I pulled it out
> of the garage the other day to show it to a potential buyer.  To my
> embarrassment, I found the left front turn signal dangling.  I assumed it
> would be a quick reattachment, but when I looked more closely I found the
> rubber surround thingie cleanly torn, and no evidence there was anything
> broken inside.  Am I missing something?  Is that rubber piece the only
> thing that affixes the front turn signals to the bike?  Neither the full
> service manual nor the exploded parts diagrams at Bike Bandit show there’s
> anything else that more securely affixes the signal stalk.
>
> No evidence anything other than time was involved in creating the spit in
> the rubber piece, and no evidence anything else is involved in remounting
> the signal/light to the nose fairing.
>
> But this seems weird.
>
> Drew in VT
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