Novel use of my GSR Patches

[ddaniels]

I was staring at my Rooster fairing and at the little speaker grills that I had covering the vacant holes when it dawned on me. I wonder if I can somehow fit my patches into those speaker covers?....hmmmmmmm...
Well, as it turns out, I could, and I think they came out pretty darn good. Here ya go...

I think it's funny how the blue on the right and red on the left looks like cold and hot on the sink faucet.
So, wha'dya think?

 

[mustangflyr]

Bravo, nicely done. Makes me wish I had a fairing.

 

[bccap]

Very creative, but starboard is green.

 

[ddaniels]

Very creative, but starboard is green.

No, it isn't. It's blue. Never trust a picture.

 

[Bribird]

Very nice!! I too one day will have patches like those.

 

[Flaming Chainsaws]

Now that's pretty cool.

Did you make the clear window for it too or was it already like that?

 

[wacky941]

No, it isn't. It's blue. Never trust a picture.

He's (bccap) referring to nautical and aviation terms for NAV lights.

 

[cowboyup3371]

That's downright fantastic. I can't wait to get home and get mine sewn on my tank bag.

 

[ddaniels]

Now that's pretty cool.

Did you make the clear window for it too or was it already like that?

I just happened to have some remnants of 1/8" thick plexiglass in the garage I had left over from when I made lowers for the windshield of the Honda Shadow I used to have. I made the windows out of that. I just cut the grills out of the speaker covers and on the back side was an indentation just exactly the same diameter as the patches. I cut the plexiglass to that diameter and fit them down inside the groove, siliconing them in. I put the patches on the the window, and then cut out covers from some thin flexible black plastic I had to hold it all together. It's like these speaker covers were meant for this. When I first took the speaker cover off the fairing to look at the back of it, the patch fit right down into that groove and I thought, "Hey, this could work!"

 

[nutsandbolts]

Nice touch.