When converting a street bike to full track duty, how have you guys eliminated the headlight (covered the hole)? My track bike came with good condition Hong Kong fairings (is that an oxymoron?) that I wouldn't use on the street but they match my leathers. They are perfect for the track except for the headlight opening and I was hoping to buy some type of cover plate if they are/were available.
Thanks for any advice. _________________ Craig
MC21 SP Rothmans
MC21 R fake Rothmans - track bike
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Thanks, that sounds perfect. I figure it will need a repaint at some point so I'll just wait until then to glass it up proper. For now a cover should work fine. I saw his post before but never noticed the cylinder and headlight cover. Guess I should be more careful - over here in the states we have no spares so I have to jump on things like that when they come up for sale.
Japan has/ had some headlight covers that looked like number plates, but had slits in them to allow the headlight to shine through. Been looking over there, hard to find. If I find a couple (first one for me, of course), will let you know.
What track are you heading for? Beaver?
Jeff, Cincinnati
Simple covered the front fairing in plastic wrap nice and tight/smooth.
mixed up some fiber glass resin, layed a couple sheets of glass down and covered in resin, smoothed it all out. Let it setup, pulled it off and trimmed to I used two of the wind screen mounting holes/screws, and the headligh mounting hole/scres on the bottom of the fairing for mounts.
Trimmed it in the shape of a number plate so it was a perfect white number plate.
Here is a pic of the bike with it on.. can't even tell. _________________ Charles Gallant
Charles, that looks fantastic! Seeing your pics reminded me of another question - what do you use to mount the upper fairing stay with the fairing since the mirrors aren't on the outside to hold it all together? I cut 2 pieces of aluminum bar but they look like hell and don't match the contour anyway.
I used zip ties. Made for quick and easy removal (cut them and your done).
Had rubber padding on the outside of the fairing to give the zip ties a little padding.
If I couldn't have function and form, I always errored on the side of function. Adding 4 screws to th top fairing ment 4 screws to remove and install between sessions. 2 zip ties (one on each side) saved a lot of time.
These were stock road fairing and stock fairing stay.
To do it right, I would go with the quick release setup's I have on my RS, or course that would mean a different fairing stay (or custom one).
I went the other way and fabricated some aluminium plates, using the 4 mounting holes. Certainly a bit more fiddly to remove than the race bike (with just an R-Clip), but not too bad.
On my headlight, I just bonded a metal plate to the inside of the fairing, covering the headlight hole. Then painted it white to make a number plate, its looks OK, but when I've finished all the other projects I'll get around to doing a fibreglass job like Charles me thinks.
_________________ Rich
MC21 Track Bike / RS250 NF5 'Spencer', NX5 'Cadalora' & NXA 'Aoyama' / RS500 / Two Brothers Racing RC30
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