My Givi luggage arrived this week and I spent a couple of hours yesterday putting everything on the bike. A word of warning to anybody trying to fit both the Givi top case mount and the Givi PLX side case rails; don’t try and fit the top case mount first, you’ll end up having to unbolt everything you just bolted on because the side case rails need to be attached first!
I don’t claim to be an expert mechanic; I never manage to pick up the right spanner first time, but I do like to have a go. I know fitting a couple of pannier rails and top case mount isn’t exactly rocket science, I also know most people wouldn’t even class it as mechanics but anything I do to the bike that needs a spanner or a torque wrench makes me feel great; I’m a real man, tinkering out in the garage with my tools, you know what I’m talking about guys.
It took me about 2.5 hours to fit both the rails and the top case mount, everything is now fitted and feels pretty secure. I’ve uploaded images to the gallery so you can check them out there. This is the first modification I’ve made to the Albino, the one that absolutely needed to be done and I’m pretty pleased with the results; the boxes look good and I’ve now got 122 litres of storage space, a tad more than the 30 litres I had on the Monster.