FZS600 as a winter snow bike

[limax2]

Welcome sasu, nice bike and tyres, and looking forward to your blog and will follow with interest! Maybe a video for YouTube?

Great mods limax2 and thanks Deefer for the fitting info.

I've been planning to fit gaitors myself, nice to see them in place. Any link to the particular Gaitors you used?

And any further details of how your mud-guard is fitted? Did you have to drill anything or is it fitted to existing mounts? Looks like radiator mound, but is that lower one standard?

Thanks, Andy

Answers to your questions Andy.
This is where I got the gaiters http://www.pyramidparts.co.uk/pages/moto...rk-gaiters . As so often in life things aren't always straight forward. The gaiters I got were listed for the FZS600 and the size was 42 x 60 x 250 long. These turned out to be too long and would have been beyond coil  bound on full compression. I could have sent them back but an easy solution was to cut two (or was it three?) convolutions away, starting two convolutions from the top, and jiggle the remaining two parts together with two convolutions overlapping. The result is a good seal and undetectable when complete. No glue etc required. You might find shorter ones for sale but I couldn't at the time.


I did a post about the mud-guard on the old site but after much searching I can't find it, however I did find the drawing and photo's in my archive so will post them on here when I have had my tea  .


Fed and watered so as promised here are more details of mud shield.
No drilling etc required to bike. The top of the guard uses the radiator single bottom mounting point but with a longer 6mm bolt. As far as I know it is the same on a Foxeye like yours but you can check that. The ant-vibration mount and spacer I used at the top was something I had in stock, but any suitable rubber grommet and washers would do. You need a spacer though so you can tighten the bolt solid. It's just to prevent the thin aluminium sheet developing a crack. Having said that the mountings to the exhaust pipes are solid, because of the heat, and I've not had any crack yet.
Later shields I made were a bit longer at the bottom to give more protection to the exhaust collector box.
The drawings don't seem too clear on here but I think you can see the outline and dimensions etc.

[smg id=2365]
[smg id=2366]
[smg id=2367]
Next is side view showing stand off from exhaust pipes.
[smg id=2368]
Note the exposed thread on bolt which is where you mount the guard.
[smg id=2369]
Details of the two lower mounting parts.
[smg id=2370]
The ant-vibration mount I used at top, but rubber grommet with suitable spacer and washers could be used instead.
[smg id=2371]


Hope all that helps but any questions just ask.