Frankenbike

You are just following forum rule #1- photos.

If I see a can of spray paint near that fairing Im coming to find you Steve.

If you want to do some colour changes to let us help you choose, please carry on - but show us the size of brush you use

There will be a minimum of 100 rides that are extra joyful due to the GK fairing. Thats only $7 per ride. Less than gas. Good decision!

NPeteN said:

You are just following forum rule #1- photos.

If I see a can of spray paint near that fairing Im coming to find you Steve.

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No painting. I got the fairing because it told ME what color it wants to be!

I can’t stand it. I’m so F’ing pumped. Got the fairing today and mounted it up. Looks fantastic!!!

Need to paint the tank and fender and then body and chassis are done. I rebuilt the master cylinder yesterday and the switches are all wired and ready to go.

What do you think?

Got hit the gear box yesterday also. Going to rebuild that next.

That's looks fuckin goooooooooood. Bet you're glad you spent that cash.

Do not touch those stickers

NPeteN said:

That's looks fuckin goooooooooood. Bet you're glad you spent that cash.

Do not touch those stickers

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Thanks Pete, I’m REALLY happy, looks like it always belonged there.

What cash? Haha.

The stickers stay. This looks like it could have been racing in the ‘70’s. Woo Hoo!!!

I struggled so much with the way it looks. I couldn’t decide whether it should be a yellow proddy racer or some other creation that I dreamed up in my head. At least now it looks like it’s SUPPOSED to be this way.

I’m having trouble staying out of the basement.

I’m going to try and buy some white and paint the tank and fender this weekend. I need the right white to blend it in. Bright white isn’t going to work and antique white will look like a bedroom. I’m going to look at shades now.

I’ve been looking at a bunch of white spray paint and it’s either too white like appliance white or too yellow like antique white. The only thing that was somewhat close was canvas white but that doesn’t come in gloss. May just have to do gloss white and see how it comes out

Can you get a color match done and then rent a sprayer?

Any pro painter can match the fairing color. Maybe even a paint store.

Spend the money and get it just right.

I think you have landed right where you should/wanted to be with the body work.

Now that you have that nice patina, don't go hog wild with the aluminum polish, just my opinion.

Great advice, I’m going to wait on the paint. I would love to see it painted, but I really like the way it’s turning out (much better than I had hoped) and I don’t want to screw it up. I’ll have it painted professionally,...sometimes ya just gotta hit me over the head with a hammer.

Someday I’d love to have alloy wheels.

How close are the fairing and tail whites?

gortnipper said:

How close are the fairing and tail whites?

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Very very close if not exact.

That looks cool, and very different too.

IF you take your time and get the details right you’ll have a fabulous looking bike. And an actual effective faring too!

I know it’s only a mock up, but I think the fairing has to be mounted a few inches higher than you have it.

Fast Eddie said:

That looks cool, and very different too.

IF you take your time and get the details right you’ll have a fabulous looking bike. And an actual effective faring too!

I know it’s only a mock up, but I think the fairing has to be mounted a few inches higher than you have it.

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With the brackets I have, it’s solid as a rock. Why do you think it needs to be higher? I’m not saying you’re wrong, just the opposite, I’m sure you’re right, I’m curious why you think so?

In my OPINION, number one consideration is that you have full range of motion with handlebars and controls, from lock-to-lock. Second is alignment with other bodywork.

You have good reason to be psyched... There's enough there to see the vision of where your project is going... It looks awesome...

I've done the "fairing mount/handle bar swing/steering stops" dance myself. You definitely need to sit on the bike with the fairing mocked up in place and work out the details of: Do I like this riding position? Do my hands hit the fairing with the bars where I want them? do I need to modify the steering stops? (I did) , Do I want to go up or down with the fairing position ? .... etc. All common sense stuff, but good to work out the relative positions of things, so you expose the possible problems they develop.

For example: My frame is an early one and the steering stops are different than later frames. After mocking up the fairing, I needed to change it's position for the bars I planned to use, so I cut the bracket up from being a "unicorn" style, into a forked pair of arms, so I could see the ammeter centered on my headlight also. While I was doing this, I realized that I could weld a pair of steel bars onto the plate of the fairing bracket to hang down in front of the existing steering stops, that would both, center the steering head bracket, and shorten the swing of the bars so my hands didn't hit the fairing...

You may or may not care about these kind of details. I was pretty paranoid that I was going to spend a small fortune and reach a dead end and be back were I started with a much lighter wallet... so the mock up was to check for functionality. After I knew it would work, I kept after it. I admit that there are issues in my own bike that are compromises, but it came out good enough for me.

As I said, I see where you are going. I think it's a good direction

Well, for my eye, the fairing hand protector portions are too low, they’re supposed to deflect the air around your hands and they look too low for that?

But the more immediate reason is that it looks like you have inadequate clearence between the front mudguard and the fairing to me?

Both points could be due to camera angle etc, but I’d at least double check the clearance issue...

And BTW, you may need to shorten your clip ons. If you look at PW clip ons from the day, they were as short as they could be without him grabbing the stanchions !