GSXR race fairing

Originally Posted by rvracing

hi m8... as soon as i can work ouy how to use photo bucket i will post up some pickies on sub frame, it is a basic no nonsence frame that you bolt your seat on and hang your can on, i looked the comercialy available ones and then looked at the price , 150 quid er no tar, 20mm squre ally tube, bit of milling , bit of turnig, bit of sawing, job done,

lol brilliant!! Yeh prices are a bit steep! surely it must be possible to modify the std one to get what you want??

what iv done is used the angles of the horrible mild steel standard one, and made the same in ally, this makes a nice standard seating position, and the bike feels ballanced, its a fraction of the wieght to, im sure the higher up designes are good, but i just wanted a comfortable design for the isle of man, iv done a similar thing for the front to, im in the middle of designing reasets, il have to get this photo thing sorted , im very very thick with computers

I did the same but it was too low with the fireblade seat on. Now raised two inches but keeping the same seat angle, much better.

Originally Posted by rvracing

hi m8... as soon as i can work ouy how to use photo bucket i will post up some pickies on sub frame, it is a basic no nonsence frame that you bolt your seat on and hang your can on, i looked the comercialy available ones and then looked at the price , 150 quid er no tar, 20mm squre ally tube, bit of milling , bit of turnig, bit of sawing, job done,

Absolutely, wish I had made my own years ago. Having fabricated one myself using a jig it really is an easy job for any sheet metal worker who can weld. The are some on the market that bend too easily after a spill.

thats right adie, to be honest iv still got mine bolted togeather, ( will weld it when i get round to it), to be honest bolting it togeather using high qualitiy bolt means if you do crash, you can un bolt the damaged bit , and then i would make the damaged bit, without forking out for another whole frame, at the end of the day adie , minitwins is suposed to be a semy buget class, like the cb500, but i can see folk spending lotts of dosh when the dont need to, its a very good idea to use the skill resources within the calss, nothing on a motorcycle chassis wise is rocket science,,,,rob

I eventually bought a second hand set of ard racing SV fairings, they are in need of some repairs but they are much beefier than the gsxr fairings!! So i suppose the question is what is the opinion on having to fully strip the old paint before i re-paint??