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Once the cover was off I could get to the mirrors

With a 17mm spanner I was able to unbolt the mirrors. It was a bit tricky working out whether I was tightening or loosening the bolts.

With both mirrors off the next thing is to remove the horn cover. to get to this you have to remove the plastic Piaggio badge at the front of the GTS. I managed to get it off with my finger nail.

With the badge removed you can get to the screw that holds the horn cover on. All the screws from now on are phillips head.

With the horn cover removed you can get to the front headlight cover screw under the headlight.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO DROP THIS SCREW!

Next you remove the two fixing screws at the rear of the handle bars.

The other side

And after much wiggling and twisting and gently prising and cursing the headlight assembly suddenly comes free.

You can now disconnect the wiring and remove the headlight assembly.

This is the GTS with the headlight assembly removed

This gives you access to the headlight bulb. You pull the rubber away to get access to the back of the light bulb sitting in a ceramic plate.

You twist the ceramic back plate of the bulb and it comes away.

You can now replace the bulb. When putting in the new bulb you have to be careful not to put your fingers on the glass bit coz this can bugger the bulb. Putting it all back together again is just the same only in the opposite order. The Plus 50 bulb is supposed to be 50% brighter that a conventional halogen bulb and yes it is a vast improvement but boy its quite a complicated process just to change a light bulb.