I want a bit more weather resistance for my XT 600 for European motorway use, so I looked around on everyone’s forums, and I cant bring myself to buy one of those ceebee screens that mount on the handle bars, they look truly awful.


I like the tenere headlight mount of the 89 tenere (3aj I think), but they don’t mount onto my tank. The 1VJ just doesn’t quite have it. I looked at the Dakar bikes and like the idea of an elongated race number screen. This could also be used to protect the GPS from most of the elements.

I did look at the Suzuki DR600 dakar screen, it is handle bar mounted and has a small fly screen, which I think looks magic. So does anyone know where I can buy one? and will it fit?


The other idea is to buy some Perspex and to make my own… (ordered sheet and on its way)

Anyone any tips, its going to be a real hash job, wish I had access to some blue or yellow tinted polycarbonate, now that would look great.

Also need to figure out how to post more pics
Watch this space.

Secdem do a screen for the bike.

Great range of colours !!!

Bullster

Order through Baglux. Baglux UK

Exactly right Yellow is so cool

Hi All, I too wanted something to make high speed motorway slogs a little less tiring and offer some protection at lower speeds. I finished up with a Givi A602 screen, not too ugly and it survived without any problems (did not come loose etc).

Hi

I would have a fairing for the 1VJ wasting space under my garage roof.

Here in south africa, I could email you pics of the fairing

regards

Thomas

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I like the camoflauge effect - does that help the pram go faster?

Hey Ghost rider, it looks Like Bruken has been doing some research...
That book in the Pram: "Building your Baby & toddler streamlined push chair"! Pretty impressive stuff.
I believe that the matt finish creates micro pockets of turbulent air that the free flowing air glides over to give an enhanced slipstream effect by reducing air-to-surface tension enduced drag.

Seriously, Bruken thats a grand idea...
only I... well err :confused1: I supose I could do that... But it, hmmm I guess there is no excuse. About that blue foam, is it soft sponge foam, or is it a harder formed foam, and how do you:

a) Mold it into the shape
b) Is it part of the fairing, or does it become the mould.
c) Where do you buy it

Clearly I know nothing about free forming fiberglass, but it is bringing back memories of surfboards, now that foam was more solid, and you layer the glass around it. Yes I suppose that is the answer, but I honestly wasnt looking for anything that difficult (workwise yet simple idea-wise)

Brilliant answer Brucken. Now I'm confused as to where to go, Man I can now make my 3 cooler in the fairing. on one side and a cubby on the other WOW the possibilities are endless.
Thank you

However I have now started burning myself with my piece of perspex, and I am extremely happy with the results. Once I have it mounted on the bike I will post a pic, but it looks good initially.

I have opted to mount it onto the front number plate plastic, but I should give it a metal support down to the number plate bracket, another day, when I attack some steel pipes with the neighbours arc welder to make my Pannier bracket. (Neither of can drive his oxyacetalene welder so will give that a miss, way to much scope for disaster!)

Had some fun forming the perspex, for £6.45 It does seem to be the cheapest option (excluding 3 booboo plasters and 8 hours labour) Pic to follow on Sunday

Blue foam formed the positive mold so the exterior finish was the rough finish. The lighter colours are epoxy filler to form the contours.

Hint. Use epoxy which is more flexible and "rubbery" than resin which is brittle and will crack.

As for Mr PGS's questions. The foam is friable and easily shaped. Fit it to the front of the bike and then shape (sculpt) accordingly. It sound a lot harder to do than it is. Mine took about 12 hours to knock out and saved me the £175 it would have cost to replace with the original plastic unit.

BTW. The pic was taken by the Missus as a laugh, because whenever it was my turn to look after baby.... the only way he would settle down was if he accompanied me to the garage and I switched on a power tool. The sounds of a pillar drill would send him to sleep instantly :-)

Firstly...

and secondly.....PLEASE, PLEASE show us some step by step photos of how you made that fairing.........that is a work of Genius.

and I really want to have a go at making a twin headlamp fairing for my XT.

Step by step photo's I dont have...sorry. Notice the model hanging from the roof? I use the technique for creating engine cowls.

Here is the process tho..

Get some pink or blue foam. Double sided tape it together to get the correct thickness you need. Mount it to the front of the bike with the tank on. (If you use florists green foam for the back interior of the plug, it is so soft and friable you can literally push fit it into place)Carve it to the shape you need. Remove plug. Cover it with LOW TEMP film. Wax the film well (about 10 - 12 coats of wax). Cut some strips of fiberglass. LIGHTLY spray the fiberglass with 3M spray and apply to the plug. You will want at least 2 to 3 layers of cloth. Mix up some epoxy resin so you have about a 30 minute "pot life". Thin it about 25% with acetone if using resin, though I prefer to blow hot air from a hair dryer for epoxy. This will thin epoxy to an almost penetrating oil like state. Use a "flux" brush, apply it to the fiberglass - make sure you "work it in" so all the layers are wet. Squegee off any excess resin/ epoxy and let dry for a couple of hours. Sand it. Trim any excess overhang from the back and pop it off of the plug. If it doesn't pop out, cut an opening in the film and, OUTSIDE, put a little petrol in the opening (a little goes a long way!!!). The foam will disolve into a sludge in about 30 - 45 minutes. Remove the sludge and film. Rinse the cowl well and let sit for another 2 or 3 days to "harden up". Fill with epoxy automotive filler and sand down. Not too hard to do, ....

Bruken, I thought you were gonna do THIS to your tenere...


Martyn

sorry...... couldnt resist the temptation to make a desert rat......... I love rat-bikes!

Hello there,
I have made this windscreen for my XTZ 3YF out of a sheet of what I believe to be policarb.



I didnt know the difference between policarb, plexiglass etc. if I knew it was going to be so fragile I'd probably have used something different but this sheet has been sitting in my garage for ages so I decided to give it a go anyway.
At the end I had to glue two "half-moon" shaped sheets of very thin aluminium on each side to keep it together and put a rubber seal around the edges as a further protection (one of these you put on your car doors to protect the paint on the edge).



It is very easy to scratch, to crack and it chips away when you drill holes in it or cut it... to be honest it was the first time I ever tried to work on a piece of plastic and still havent understood how to bend it the way i want but at the end it looks like it's working: no more air into my chest, the air instead goes straight into my face!!! Considering I wear one of these hybrid motocross helmet with the peak you can imagine the fun...


Anyway, off topic =======>>> it occoured to me that if I clip my kathmandu torchlight on top of the new screen it will illuminate the map at night... (picture below).

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... and Nelly The Elephant packed the trunk and said goodbye to the circus...

Actually, there is a lot of potential in that

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