'09 RSV: How do the antennas stay in?

[Razorback]

Looking at a coworkers bike and the left antenna will pull right out of the base, while the right one feels secure. It looks like a black plastic part on the bottom of the antenna base fits into a metal receptacle on the bike. The metal part has indentions 90 degrees apart.

I looks like the black part on the antenna may have had lugs at the same points.

How does it work and go together? Is the loose antenna trashed?

 

thanks

[eusa1]

Put some epoxy around the outside area of the black plastic and push it back into the collar, it will be fine.

[Freebird]

What year is the co-workers bike? The '99 models had crap antennas that often did that. They changed the design in 2000.

[Razorback]

2009