I have a 2011 Connie and I have thought about getting the Canyon Cages for a while now.
I have not dropped mine yet but so many people who never thought they would drop theirs,
are now saying it's not IF but WHEN you drop yours.
I also saw that all Canyon Cages are black. I didn't even know that they came any other way.
Then I did some more research and found out that they come in Chrome too.
Then I was on Amazon and they listed the Canyon Cages and even had an option for Chrome.
The problem was when I clicked on the Chrome listing the pictures still showed the Black versions.
I thought MAYBE it was a Chrome metal but they were still painted black?
So I looked and looked and looked and didn't find but one picture of a Chrome set on a Silver Connie - at least on this forum.
I did see 1 and only 1 set on a Black Connie too.
So more searching and I finally found a set of Chrome Canyon Cages.
It appears that they must only sell one set of Chrome for every 100 sets of black
and that might be a high estimate. Maybe it's more like 1 for every 500 sets.
With more research I started to hear the horror stories about getting the motor bolts out
as they are thread locked in place and that you need to heat the bolts and or run the engine etc.
to get them warm or hot to melt the thread lock stuff so you could get them out.
But then there were others that said they come out without any trouble.
So I took a chance and went for it.
I had no trouble removing the bolts that had thread lock on them. The engine was stone cold too.
I have many 10mm taps BUT I didn't have a 10x1.25 tap on hand.
I tried to put the new longer bolts in place and got them started but they got harder to turn
the deeper they went. I removed them as the instructions said they might cross thread.
There were NO signs of cross threading but I didn't know if I would be able to tighten them all the way.
So off to get the correct size tap. Used it and all was well.
I originally removed the fairings and installed the Cages. I had seen others post that they cut their
fairings and then they could remove them with the cages on. I really just didn't feel comfortable doing that so I
removed them again and then reinstalled the Cages again.
Here are the results.
I personally like them and being different isn't always a bad thing.
They go good with the new radiator protector I recently installed too.