{"id":1856,"date":"2026-01-31T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:48:27","slug":"tail-tidied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/tail-tidied\/","title":{"rendered":"Tail tidied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t bear the ugly duckling tail anymore. Being the thrifty shopper I am, I couldn\u2019t bear to spend $360 for the R&amp;G tail tidy kit so I went for the AliExpress $60 version. It\u2019s generally well made but the design could be improved. I had issues getting the key into the seat lock and hand to bend it a bit to provide sufficient access. I was able to use the original indicators and wiring harness though.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1857\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6942-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1858\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6941-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1859\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6940-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1860\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6937-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t bear the ugly duckling tail anymore. Being the thrifty shopper I am, I couldn\u2019t bear to spend $360 for the R&amp;G tail tidy kit so I went for the AliExpress $60 version. It\u2019s generally well made but the design could be improved. I had issues getting the key into the seat lock and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/tail-tidied\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tail tidied<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-cb300r","category-motorbikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}