Street Fightering the FZS

[xlewisbdx]

Hi guys so I am going to street fighter the fazer but wanted to know what kind of bracket I would need for the front clocks to be mounted to the forks on the front?

I wanted something like this but with a single headlight and normal mirrors.

FZS600 streetfighter (ish) - paint job, bates lamps, Wileyco exhaust

[Paul]

I made a bracket its not that easy to describe, if you want more info I'll try and describe it.
In essence you use the underside of the handlebr mounts as a starting point.
 
I had over-size nuts made so they would tighten up the handlebar clamp and provide a fixing point for the clock bracket, which was just a piece of flat steel bar with some heat shrink over it. 
 
If your interested I will endeavour to describe the whole process in more detail and I think I may have some of the over=sized nuts left as the Engineering company made a batch of about 10 if memory serves.
 
Picture of bike below:

[Paul]

I've done a couple of Fazers to date
 
Pictures of different front ends below
 
 

[Paul]

More pictures

[Paul]

Purchased first FZS 600 new in Easter 2001.

Liked the look of the bike but always wished it was un-faired.

The reason I wish it was un-faired is because in my day only race bikes and police bikes had fairings, and I’m neither a racer nor a copper.

In 2003 I took the plunge the bike had only done 4,800 miles at the time but has now clocked 67,800 miles, and I’ve had no problems with the modifications I did.



Modifications:

Seat modification
Had the seat re-shaped so it rose up where it meets the tank
Reason:   I always felt like I was having to push myself backward on the seat to get to a comfortable riding position.

Removal of the front fairing
Once you’ve taken the front fairing off you encounter the following issues:

1)      There’s nowhere to mount the clocks.
2)      There’s nowhere to fix a headlamp.
3)      There’s nowhere to fix the indicators.
4)      The clocks don’t have an aesthetically pleasing back on them and you need a small screen or cover to protect them against the rain.


Clock mounting
After a lot of piss-malling about I concluded that the best way to mount the clocks was not from the forks but from the yokes.  The handlebar clamps are bolted through the yokes. 
I removed the existing nuts and had new nuts made.  These have 10mm internal thread all the way through and are around 30mm long.  You use these to tighten back up the handlebar clamps whilst at the same time you can screw a bolt into them to fix the clock mounts.

The mounts for the clocks were made out of mild steel approximately 18mm wide.
They’ve got a hole for bolt to fix them to the yokes and a hole to fix them to the clocks.
The hole for the clocks needs to be over-sized to allow the clocks to be rubber mounted like they were in the fairing.

The brackets have to be bent to an angle but that’s easy.


Headlamp and mounting
I like conventional round headlamps because I’m an old bugger.
In any event sourcing a headlamp was the easy bit (M & P accessories)
Mounting the headlamp was also relatively straightforward, I used the unfaired Suzuki bandit
fork mounts, but I made my own triangular aluminium bracket to connect the headlamp to the bandit fork mounts.


Indicators
The aluminium headlamp bracket gives you a point to mounted the indicators.
I wanted to retain the original fairing indicators, so I cored out the centre of them and cast in araldite a piece of threaded bar to fix them.  Had no problems with them and they’ve been on the bike for 64,000 miles like this.  You can of course simple use after market indicators.


Protecting the clocks
The clocks don’t have an aesthetically pleasing back on them, and will be exposed to water penetration unless you protect them in some way.
I made a small aluminium cockpit type cover and brackets, but there are no doubt many small fairings and coverings that you can buy.


Other issues
You will come across other issues, such as that horrible rubber flap over the top of the cylinder head.  My solution to this was bin it, and there have been no issues because of that.


Picture of nuts to mount clock brackets below:

[Rebuilt]

Is it me or is the FZS a little long to streetfighter ?   
I got one and looked at it after seeing this thread n just thought how ?


 Be interesting to see it done though 

[Fuzzy]

I like that a lot Paul, nice one! Looks great. I'd love a naked bike but the fairing's just so handy in this country's climate.

[papercutout]

Is it me or is the FZS a little long to streetfighter ?   
I got one and looked at it after seeing this thread n just thought how ?


 Be interesting to see it done though 

Not at all. If someone was bold enough to chop the tail just behind the seat, fit custom rear lights and go for a single headlight, it'd work fine. I've got a picture on my head, and maybe someday I'll do it. I've built 2 fairly bad-ass cars over the last few years, so vision wise, I know what I'm doing, and most people do it wrong. I can look at it and say 'change that to that, and it'd work'. Time and money, and in a years time, rather than now. Now I'm 4 days away from passing my test, and can't justify mods to a bike when it comes to insurance!

[Raymy]

It's looks short and aggressive from the side when you jack up the back end

[Paul]

To Yamazer 92
 
Photos of the bracket I cut off and the one I mounted a reflector on.
 
Note: a cable tie goes over the cut-off bracket mount point.

[drew70311]

Hi, are the headlights, the small are large style bates?

Thanks

[darrsi]

Hi, are the headlights, the small are large style bates?

Thanks

Not exactly sure what you're asking there fella?

[TwoTinz]

I have a street FZS,  i just mounted the clocks by the two end bolts from a "90 bend" piece of metal bolted from the light bracket, works fine, pics below

Details speedo bracket

speedo bracket