I attached the fairing to the bike, and then attached the standard screen to the fairing (Kindly provided by Red98. Thanks Paul!)
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At first, I considered leaving the screen as it is. Though it looked kinda cool. But then decided that the spare mounting holes look odd. And the screen is a little wobbly, having that much sticking up with no support. And finally, the point was to get MORE wind on my chest! So the Dremel is getting another outing!
I decided I wanted to try and sort of copy the shape of the original screen. I'm going for 'There's something odd about that bike..' rather than 'WTF is THAT!!??'
I also decided that I'd take off just enough to remove the spare holes, AND have the screen just above the level of the mirror mounts.
At this point, I should explain that I had originally planned to take off the standard mirrors and mounts and go with bar mounted mirrors, for the true streetfighter look. But not only did the rear of the fairing, either side of the headlights (viewed from ON the bike) look really open and bare without the mounting brackets, but I've also just spent too much money!!! So there is no funding available to buy the THIRD pair of mirrors this season!
Annoyingly, Louis.de have an adapter that allows you to fit bar mount mirrors onto fairing mounting points. They also have some pretty cool bar mount mirrors aswell! All of which I found shortly after buying the FZ1 Mirrors. I always see these things JUST after I've blown my budget on something else!! :'(
[size=1em]Maybe Santa is listening?...[/size]
[size=1em]Anyway, back to the screen. [/size]
[size=1em]I got creative at this point and used my trusty marking out tool, PVC tape, alongside a laser levelling tape measure on a tripod to mark out where to cut the screen. Levelled between the two unused mounting holes. [/size]
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[size=1em]And then proceeded to chop the top of the screen off. Pretty straight cut too, if I do say so myself![/size]
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[size=1em]Next up, I used the part of the screen I had removed to provide templates for marking out the corners of the new screen shape. [/size]
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[size=1em]And here is the finished shape.[/size]
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[size=1em]I'm really happy with how it looks. Also, the mirrors where they are is already growing on me. Might need to trim back the fairing a little more to clear the mirrors gaiters. Although, they are rubber, so it doesn't matter too much.[/size]
[size=1em]I also know that the standard screen appears to scoop down from the corners to the middle, but I wanted to keep enough screen that the clocks are protected from any rain coming at the directly from above.[/size]
[size=1em]The area behind the headstock, above the radiator/cylinder head, looks very open. So I'm planning to try and fabricate some kind of panel to fill this space and also to offer some elemental protection for the horn and regulator on the other side. [/size]
[size=1em]Mostly happy with how it's going so far though. [/size]
un
[smg id=1467]
At first, I considered leaving the screen as it is. Though it looked kinda cool. But then decided that the spare mounting holes look odd. And the screen is a little wobbly, having that much sticking up with no support. And finally, the point was to get MORE wind on my chest! So the Dremel is getting another outing!
I decided I wanted to try and sort of copy the shape of the original screen. I'm going for 'There's something odd about that bike..' rather than 'WTF is THAT!!??'
I also decided that I'd take off just enough to remove the spare holes, AND have the screen just above the level of the mirror mounts.
At this point, I should explain that I had originally planned to take off the standard mirrors and mounts and go with bar mounted mirrors, for the true streetfighter look. But not only did the rear of the fairing, either side of the headlights (viewed from ON the bike) look really open and bare without the mounting brackets, but I've also just spent too much money!!! So there is no funding available to buy the THIRD pair of mirrors this season!
Annoyingly, Louis.de have an adapter that allows you to fit bar mount mirrors onto fairing mounting points. They also have some pretty cool bar mount mirrors aswell! All of which I found shortly after buying the FZ1 Mirrors. I always see these things JUST after I've blown my budget on something else!! :'(
[size=1em]Maybe Santa is listening?...[/size]
[size=1em]Anyway, back to the screen. [/size]
[size=1em]I got creative at this point and used my trusty marking out tool, PVC tape, alongside a laser levelling tape measure on a tripod to mark out where to cut the screen. Levelled between the two unused mounting holes. [/size]
[size=1em][smg id=1468][/size]
[size=1em]And then proceeded to chop the top of the screen off. Pretty straight cut too, if I do say so myself![/size]
[size=1em][smg id=1469][/size]
[size=1em]Next up, I used the part of the screen I had removed to provide templates for marking out the corners of the new screen shape. [/size]
[size=1em][smg id=1470][/size]
[size=1em]And here is the finished shape.[/size]
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[size=1em]I'm really happy with how it looks. Also, the mirrors where they are is already growing on me. Might need to trim back the fairing a little more to clear the mirrors gaiters. Although, they are rubber, so it doesn't matter too much.[/size]
[size=1em]I also know that the standard screen appears to scoop down from the corners to the middle, but I wanted to keep enough screen that the clocks are protected from any rain coming at the directly from above.[/size]
[size=1em]The area behind the headstock, above the radiator/cylinder head, looks very open. So I'm planning to try and fabricate some kind of panel to fill this space and also to offer some elemental protection for the horn and regulator on the other side. [/size]
[size=1em]Mostly happy with how it's going so far though. [/size]
un
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