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Winter Project - Studley Ramrod - 01-11-2018

That would look good. Smile

Are you gonna make a solid screen/front fairing or have a seperate screen and front fairing ?  Palmerproducts do an adjustable screen bracket if you go the way of seperates.



Winter Project - coxylaad - 02-11-2018

no pics to show just yet, but I have removed my first attempt with horizontal light arrangement, and set about building the stacked headlight setup. 

 

much easier to produce, I should have something workable by the end of the weekend. 

 

The current plan is to make a small cowl type fairing that will blend into the side panels, and not look too dissimilar to the tenere 700 if I can manage it.

 

The main difference will be that my cowl setup will have a mounting point for a standard screen. I want the headlights to shine through the screen.  I've seen the palmer products stuff and it looks good, but its expensive and I can make stuff like that myself I think (he says before hes actually tried)



Winter Project - coxylaad - 02-11-2018

jonny 5 is no longer alive, hes been rarranged:

 

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Winter Project - fixitsan - 03-11-2018

 
 
Got them up nice and high, that will be handy

Winter Project - coxylaad - 05-11-2018

 
finished the structural bracing, its not going anywhere now
 
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I am waiting for my modelling foam to turn up then its time to make a start on building a fairing  :o


Winter Project - fixitsan - 05-11-2018

 
 
Looking pretty good :good:

Winter Project - coxylaad - 05-11-2018

It's the easy part to be fair. The hard bit will be creating a fairing shape that doesn't look crap

Winter Project - drewpy - 06-11-2018

just seen this on ebay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223219004660?ul_noapp=true


Winter Project - coxylaad - 06-11-2018

very interesting



Winter Project - coxylaad - 07-11-2018

Modelling foam has arrived, let fairing building commence! 



Winter Project - modesto - 07-11-2018

Amazing! hope you can show us the process!



Winter Project - Studley Ramrod - 07-11-2018

:wifgeni:  Looking forward to the journey. :munching_out:


Winter Project - coxylaad - 15-11-2018

Not managed to get a great deal done lately. 
 
But I managed to do a little bit last night. I have made myself an adjustable bracket for the clocks. I got the idea from a review of a triumph tiger 800xc, it had clocks where the angle was adjustable.  I thought 'I like that idea' so copied it. 
 
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I added the DRLs to the side of the main lights, but I am thinking its a bit too busy so might be chopping them off and putting them somewhere else. 
 
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You have to imagine it all contained within a fairing. not easy to do at the moment. 
 
I have been thinking about the fairing options, and I might do away with a screen altogether and just make everything out of fibreglass (or carbon fibre)


Winter Project - coxylaad - 16-11-2018

 
clocks in their lowest setting:
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Clocks in their highest setting (well actually they could rotate round and point forward at the moment but imagine the fairing is in front of it)
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Probably where it will end up for day to day use:
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Winter Project - ramotdm - 16-11-2018

they'll have no excuse for not seeing ya when that's lit up coxylaad  :good:



Winter Project - coxylaad - 16-11-2018

haha very true, unless their retinas are burned out and they are blinded. I am not sure on the DRLs at the side. I have an LED light bar I am going to try and fit just under the main lights. I will run it at half power for a DRL, and have it full when I put my full beam on. 

 

The project headlights themselves are pretty immense in terms of the light output they produce. 

 

 

Pretty amazing these LEDs - all this lighting output and its still way less than the stock halogen bulbs. 



Winter Project - bjorge - 16-11-2018

Quote:haha very true, unless their retinas are burned out and they are blinded. I am not sure on the DRLs at the side. I have an LED light bar I am going to try and fit just under the main lights. I will run it at half power for a DRL, and have it full when I put my full beam on. 

 
 

Wouldn't it be better to moun them farther from center (and a bit lower), to establish a bigger visual image ? I thought that was part of the idea of DRLs ?


Winter Project - coxylaad - 16-11-2018

yes it would, I had the idea of building them into the fairing, but you are correct further apart would be much better. 



Winter Project - curlylegend - 18-11-2018

I'm often a bit concerned about motos mounting a pair of front facing lamps side by side.  They can sometimes be regarded as a "car far away", rather than a "moto up close" !  I would prefer the "illumination signature" to be unequivocably MOTORCYCLE.

 

Just a thought....



Winter Project - fixitsan - 18-11-2018

Quote:I'm often a bit concerned about motos mounting a pair of front facing lamps side by side.  They can sometimes be regarded as a "car far away", rather than a "moto up close" !  I would prefer the "illumination signature" to be unequivocably MOTORCYCLE.

 

Just a thought....
 

 

Is this of relevance ?  https://motolight.com/triangle-of-light/