Painted and Mounted Maier Fairing

[ddaniels]

Nice job,How did you do the pinstripes?

I had to cut the two halves of the pinstripe in half length-wise to be able to make the bends. Then, just went by sight trying to keep them in line with each other. I clear laquered over the top of them.

[ddaniels]

How did you come up with the idea to use those turn signal re-locaters?
Genius!

Daniel

My bike came without the chrome triple tree cover below the headlight because it had a Pacifico fairing on it when I bought it. I eventually put a Vetter on, but when I took that off and went naked up front, I made a cover out of sheet metal to cover the brake hose junction. I needed a way to mount it to the forks, and I happened to have those signal relocators, so I used them for that. While brainstorming for a way to attach this little fairing without having to use the handlebar attachment method, it just dawned me to use those relocators. Call it a revelation...lightbulb coming on. I had to actually bend the headlight ears just a little bit where they wrap around the forks to have enough clearance to squeeze these through the opening.

[ddaniels]

Looks good.


Now you need to put that second or third picture as your sig picture.

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Done. Thanks for reminding me.

[TheCafeKid]

Nice!!! Now where'd ya get that sexy thang?? I tell ya what... That thing is BOM material IMO. I'd vote for it if I had a vote. I'd say it's about perfect looking....for a bagger

[salty_monk]

My brackets use the top pinch bolts - very similar idea. The stock brackets are pretty horrible. Looks great

[Guest]

Ya know, the more I look at those little fairings the more I like em. Not to mention yours is mounted on a great looking bike!
Looks fantastic!

[Flaming Chainsaws]

Yup, the Maier fairing is on my wish list as well.

[ddaniels]

Thanks all for the nice compliments. I like the looks of it quite a lot. I had the bike up to 70 on the road today on my way to work for a couple seconds (short trip). Seems to be ok. I guess the real test will be on an extended ride.

Nice thing about the bags, Josh, is that I don't see them when I'm riding on the bike.

Now I have to decide if I want to paint the lids on the luggage or not.

[ddaniels]

My brackets use the top pinch bolts - very similar idea. The stock brackets are pretty horrible. Looks great

Sheesh! I don't know why I didn't think of the top pinch points. Doh!

[kinnet]

Now I have to decide if I want to paint the lids on the luggage or not.

I think if you paint the luggage lids, you should test out that darker shade of paint you found.

[ddaniels]

I think if you paint the luggage lids, you should test out that darker shade of paint you found.

Good point.

[Dave8338]

Looks GREAT! Nice and clean. Looks as though it was on the bike from day one.

Nice work.

[BassCliff]

Hi,

That is a very sharp looking machine. Great job on the fairing and mounting. You've got clean lines and it doesn't look over done or overloaded. Nice work.



Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

[ddaniels]

Thank you very much.

[7981GS]

The colors match pretty darn well in the pic's.
I like the gold pin striping to match the rest of the bike, it looks stock.

Daniel