Thanks... I think? The only thing I actually broke today was the plastic ring for the gauges; that was actually during my first attempt at bending the birds nest back by smacking it with a rubber mallet (obviously a bad idea... 20/20 hindsight). Everything else was already damaged from all the times the bike was dropped in the past. I was still thinking about possibly going the route to replace the entire stock headlight with a dual-sport headlight kit. I could probably save a $h!t ton of money that way, but I would seriously miss the sport "cat's eye" look that makes the CBR so trademark. Plus, the CBR headlights are FAR superior to any other headlight I could find. I have a buddy who has HID bulbs in his ZX-7 and it still doesn't even come close to how bright mine are, and that's only with one headlight at a time (because the stock configuration turns off the low-beam when you turn on the high-beam but that will be changed very soon).
It only just hit me now when I calculated it up for how much money I could save by not choosing to do all the optional mods. Then again, this whole handlebar replacement is entirely optional in the first place I suppose. But it just sucks that I'm finding out about all these underlying problems with the front fairings at this point in time. I would actually be within a reasonable budget, if it weren't for that...
I'm definitely not in over my head yet financially, but I'm really starting to feel the cold water on my ankles.
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