its a PITA man. You have to sort of bend it down and pull it out. You can acutally put on your flush mounts withough taking the Fairing off, but i could only show you i cant describe how to do it. Do yourself a favor and take off the lower fairing first so it will be easier to slide the mid fairing down and out. Oh and BTW did you take off the plastic liner piece on the inside of the wheel well? GOod luck man our bikes look sick with flush mounts