Winter Project

[Studley Ramrod]

That would look good.

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.

[coxylaad]

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)

[coxylaad]

jonny 5 is no longer alive, hes been rarranged:

 



 

 



 



 

[fixitsan]

 
 
Got them up nice and high, that will be handy

[coxylaad]

 
finished the structural bracing, its not going anywhere now
 

 

 

 
I am waiting for my modelling foam to turn up then its time to make a start on building a fairing  :o

[fixitsan]

 
 
Looking pretty good :good:

[coxylaad]

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

[drewpy]

just seen this on ebay

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

[coxylaad]

very interesting

[coxylaad]

Modelling foam has arrived, let fairing building commence! 

[modesto]

Amazing! hope you can show us the process!

[Studley Ramrod]

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

[coxylaad]

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. 
 

 
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. 
 

 
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)

This post was last modified: 15-11-2018, 02:29 PM by coxylaad.

[coxylaad]

 
clocks in their lowest setting:

 
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)

 
Probably where it will end up for day to day use:

[ramotdm]

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

[coxylaad]

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. 

This post was last modified: 16-11-2018, 09:43 AM by coxylaad.

[bjorge]

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 ?

[coxylaad]

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

[curlylegend]

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....

[fixitsan]

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/