Help me! - Assorted technical questions.

Removing Tach & speedo covers - They, the covers, don't come off. You can perform a can-opener type operation on them which is mentioned here somewhere, but they are not meant to be disassembled.

Replacing Brake levers - Just loosen the clutch/brake cable, align the adjusting nuts (at lever) and remove the cable. Note where the pivot of the lever is and remove that bolt. As for what else fits...I dunno.

Replacing handle grips - Left grip: Open the control box where the choke elver and directional signal switch are located. It comes apart clamshell style and has a locating pin on the underside of the handlebars. Slide the assembly away from the grip. Using a plain blower attatchment on a compressed air line peel up the flanged end of the grip and insert the tip of the blowgun. Grab the grip throttle style and rock it back and forth as you blow air under the grip. This will create an air bearing (like a hovercraft) and it will zip right off. To reinstall, if using the same style rubber grip, just slide it on while covering the hole in the end of the grip to use the same air bearing effect.

Right Grip: Open the control clamshell as above. Loosen both throttle cables and remove at the control end. This may require some working of the throttle to get them in position to remove. Once the cables are loose and the clamshell fully open the grip will just fall off.

What they painted on them was the bevel ring around the face. The brushed aliminum usually becomes pitted and rusted if left to the elements.
The plastic chrome bucket do slip off easily once they are removed from the support brackets.
If you are wanting to paint the buckets that is easy. You will need to remove the back of the instrument panel to disconnect the wires, then slip the bucket down the wires/cables. Painting the ring, just mask off the body and face of the meters,
What year is your bike? 85-91 reguire specific levers for the brake lever. If you have a rectangular Master Cylinder you will need the older style brake lever. If the Master Cylinder is round, any of the newer ones will do. Check to make sure the lever will fit your year bike. Putting a newer lever on the older style will result in your brake light being on all the time.

Hey, Diana.

I was looking at painting the plastic 'buckets' of Tach & Speedo, not the alluminum rings themselves - I actually discovered the way to make those very shiny ( Vacuum-molded epoxy-attached .2 mm steel/chromed foil). The part that confused me was that bunch of cables going into the Tach through the hole in the cover - I couldn't find an easy way to disconnect those to remove the bucket.

My bike is A10 - '94 . Round master cylinder, and I'm putting new HH wide levers on it.

On a side notice, I finally did it - left the stupid bike in Park instead of Locked position... then spent an hour troubleshooting, trying to figure out why the bloody hell is my brake light on. By the time I realised the error of my ways (I just installed a new turn signal before it started happening, so I was suspecting some weird crosswire) battery was pretty much drained. Go me! :BLAM:

I'm not sure. I wiggled the key (carefully cause I only had one key) and shook the forks by the handlebars, shot it with wd40, reached under there and tried to help the lock let loose, and after all that time sweating bullets it just came out of park as easy as it went in, for no apparent reason. Needless to say, that was the only time I ever tried it.

Interesting how one bad experience can marr you for life. I've never tried to put my cop bike or my Vulcan into park until I was on a trip a few weeks ago and my best buddy asked me why I never lock the forks on the 750. He talked me into trying it and it works fine and is easy to unlock. I only tried it cause I didn't want to look like a wimp! Funny thing though, both times I locked the forks, I left the key in the bike and had to run out of the restaurant to go get my keys! Talk about defeating the purpose!:BLAM: