Faired to nekkid

i have a 2000 naked curvy. wanna swap?

[northwind]

Where's the fun in that though?

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by northwind

Where's the fun in that though?

I knew you'd say that

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

wouldn't it be easier to buy a naked and fit clipons to it ? Surely it would save a huge amount of faffing about ?

+1

I've done it and depending on how ace you are with sorting wiring out it is indeed quite a bit of fraffing around to make it neat. Even using a round headlight, you don't have enough room to put all the block connector blocks.

I've got the 'S' sub loom underneath the tank with some wire lengthened but to be honest, it's not as neath as I'd like. The main loom connector blocks I've had to basically push back in so it's underneath where the subloom is.

Getting the naked clocks to work is not much of biggie though.

I guess you could shorten the 'S' subloom as much as possible and put it in a some sort of box underneath the headlights and then put all the connector block in it.

The other 'S' of mine I was going to turn naked I'm now putting back as an 'S' partly because of not having the time to get it as neat as I'd like. If you are good with electrics(I'm ****e) and have got the time, then go for it .

Personally I'll use a naked. Well actually I did make sure my latest bike was a naked


Ben

Totally unrelated. But. What is that pretty purpley-blue gizmo on the front of this bike?

http://upload4.postimage.org/1201705/photo_hosting.html

[dirtydog]

If you mean the blue oval thing beneath the headlights it's an extra light

[northwind]

Death ray.

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Well the easiest way would be to buy this
http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=45103

The S and N models have different looms which would probably mean a bit of messing about to get the clocks from a naked to fit plus of course clocks for a naked are rearer than rocking horse poo unless you're willing to pay silly money for them

Would have done, but I couldn't afford to insure it which was a shame. Spoke to my insurance company and switching my bike to be unfaired has no effect on premiums so I was chuffed with that. Didn't quite understand why there would be such a difference though, but hey ho.

Originally Posted by FreshAL

wanna sell me your fairing?

Might do in time. Got a scuff on the left hand one unfortunately though.

Originally Posted by northwind

I've just done a few days commute with no mirrors and it was pretty evil... I'm too used to knowing what's happening behind me

I'll agree with that too, doing some commuting without mirrors myself at the minute. Not nice.