Aren't they solid? I wanted something clear and to be able to mount mirrors too.

They are available with clear (or smoke) screens.  But I don't think I have seen them with mirrors attached.  They are probably slightly narrow, but you could probably fab some way to mount mirrors to them.

Yeah I figured I wasn't going to find exactly what I wanted and would need to end up fabbing something so I just bought the F model upper and am going to modify it to use the stock mirrors.

I also got the clip on's installed tonight but a bolt broke that holds the handle bars in, and one of the bars is bent more than I originally thought. 








I also paid another member for the fairing pieces today so hopefully by next weekend I can start mocking those up!



Thanks,

Nick

I like the idea of your screen, but I can't imagine how you're going to mount it. Please do pics when you do / don't get it trimmed and fit up. I'm looking for good (read: cheap) ideas for a screen too, so I'm watching this.

The rest of your build is looking great! 

Well my plan is to take the stock fairing mounting and cut it so I would use the section that the mirrors attach to down to right before that 90 degree bend.  Then I'll weld in my own cross back and mounting tabs will probably mount on the headlight ears.  This makes sense in my head but the best laid plans are always throw away when you get the parts in front of you!

Thanks,

Nick

so looking at the pic you posted with the fairings are you cutting it down like where the white strip of graphics are?

Yeah not sure if I'm going to be keeping the graphics or cutting inside the graphics.

if it was me before i cut anything get some green painters tape and tape off the section you want to cut tape a pic then tape off your other idea and take a pic then you can look at both ways and see what one you like the best before you ever cut a thing.

yeah, that was my original plan.  I'm just antsy to get the parts today!

yeah i know how it is waiting on parts i have a set or FZR600 rear sets that im waiting on so i cna pull the original ones off the bike.  your bike is going to look sweet i can almost see the fairing/windscreen and headlight mounted up already.

So I got some small cutting and fitting done over the weekend, but haven't gotten it any further than first mock up.  I still need to alter the fairing stay bracket to mount the mirrors so we'll see how that goes.  Here are 2 crappy camera pics I took on the way to work this morning:







Thanks,

Nick

looking good man

Thanks, I really think its going to fit really well once its done.  Its not going to be as straight forward as I thought.

i think i just bought a new project bike ill let you know if i do.  its going to be a sweet little bike tho....for the wife.

I just found this thread and spent the last day reading it.  You have done a TON of work over the past 3/4 of a year, and most of it wasn't on the engine!  At first it seemed to me you were going to get it running with minimum expense and work, but now it's almost completely transformed, and your reluctance to get more involved has disappeared!  I could feel your confidence growing with every page!

Great accomplishment.  All this while holding down a job, proposing in Paris, planning a wedding, and breaking your foot!  Excellent strategy and congrats on the outcome, by the way.  However, by doing so you set the bar pretty high for future vacations!

Unless I missed something you didn't say how you broke your foot.  Dropped the engine on it? 

Bill,

Thanks for the compliments!  Its always easy to think you can do something till its time to get into it and do it.  I needed that kick provided here to say "well its already messed up and I can't do more damage to it!"  So I tore it apart and figured I might as well make it mine while I'm here rebuilding it!

It originally was just going to be a commuter bike but after I moved and got more confidence I started making bigger and bigger plans and it has slowly transformed into what it is now.  I've learned ALOT on the way and suggest this as one of the best ways to learn what you are doing.  Am I an expert?  HELL NO, and still far from it.  But do I feel confident enough to at least TRY something?  Without a doubt.

I technically didn't propose in Paris, sure we were on top of the Eiffel Tower, but it was the one in Las Vegas not Europe!  That would be next to impossible to top but she would LOVE to get back to Paris since she spent a summer in Germany and visited it often.

I actually broke my 5th metatarsal while playing softball for our adult coed league.  I was rounding third and stumbled before the base and landed just wrong which caused a double spiral fracture.  Sunday was 8 weeks since the break and I'm now out of my cast/boot and up to running again.  I played softball the last 2 weeks and even joined an indoor soccer league on Fridays and barely have any pain in the foot now.

The engine was VERY hard to get back in, especially by myself!  I'd recommend asking for help for anyone taking out or putting in the engine as I came VERY close to dropping it and causing all kinds of medical problems.



Update:

Still working out the mounting for the fairing bracket but I got it started a little last night.  Got most of it cut down and I think I'm going to make a plate that bolts to the headlight ears and then up to each mirror.  Seems to make sense in my head but till I actually cut it and tack it together I'm not 100%.

Thanks!

Nick

Oh, so there's TWO Eiffel Towers now?    I gotta get out more!

I haven't removed and re-installed an engine since 1979, and that was a 125 two-stroke, but if I were doing it now, especially alone, I'd take a piece of wood, bore a hole part way through so it'll sit good on my floor jack, and jack the engine up into the frame, working from right to left of course since the right down portion of our frame comes off. 

That's my good idea for the day.  Sorry I was late to the party!

I can't wait until your bike is running again, but something tells me with all the softball and soccer it's gonna be awhile!

Unfortunately the engine doesn't just drop straigt down and the move to the side. You have to tip it forward and to the left while going down and right. Really horribly designed actually.

Yup, 2 eiffel towers. One in Paris and one in Vegas!

Thanks,

Nick

Still watching for your windscreen mount. When you do get it bolted up, don't forget some pics!

Thanks, eh?

Sorry, the weather was amazing in Phx all weekend so I was outside and didn't work on the bike at all.  Brackets aren't as straight forward as I originally thought so I think I'm just going to use a flat piece of steel and 1/2 inch round bar up from the old mirror mounts for the fairing to bolt onto.  I tried to run it to the headlight ears but it just wasn't fitting properly.