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[emotofreak]

Looks freaking great! Any chance you can do some actual Wh/mile testing and freeway speed?

Thanks!

[shayan]

I remember seeing that rear hugger on one of the FB posts, dont remember who posted though! But i would love to get that. It certainly looks to make the airflow a bit cleaner on the rear. But man those front fairings are really well made!
I really ran out of luck trying to find a LS front fender that would fit the S platform 
Did you replace the rearview mirrors with 2 phone screens (and 2 cameras)?!!

[zerodog]

That is awesome!  Love how you make it look like factory with the way the tank flow seamlessly into the fairing.

After over a year, my fairing is still a work in progress, as I can't decide how I'm going to join it to the tank.  Fortunately it is still functional, as I'm getting about a 15-20% range increase on my 17 S 13.0.

[Gains]

Okay, so what we all are dying to know is can you produce these? I can't imagine it can be done terribly cheaply, but maybe you have enough plastic fabrication knowhow and access to make this feasible.

I sold wheel huggers here in europe already for 250€ .
A whole fairing is so much more work .I will have to make another one to have an idea of how many hours it takes. What about the painting ? If you want it in the original zero colour i ll need a sample like the front fender or the top of the tail or so. If it needs to be in two colours like mine, that triples the work.
If it has to be shipped to another part of the world how many papers and stamps would i need and wat would it cost?
I ll have to ask around and think about it.

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

Okay, so what we all are dying to know is can you produce these? I can't imagine it can be done terribly cheaply, but maybe you have enough plastic fabrication knowhow and access to make this feasible.

I sold wheel huggers here in europe already for 250€ .
A whole fairing is so much more work .I will have to make another one to have an idea of how many hours it takes. What about the painting ? If you want it in the original zero colour i ll need a sample like the front fender or the top of the tail or so. If it needs to be in two colours like mine, that triples the work.
If it has to be shipped to another part of the world how many papers and stamps would i need and wat would it cost?
I ll have to ask around and think about it.

Okay, it sounds like the same issues that Hollywood Electrics faced when pricing its fairing. Thanks for considering the idea, at least.

Hollywood Electrics does have a bracket set for pushing the headlamp and dash forward, and setting up a larger space between the headlamp and head tube for the electrical routing. Does your design have such a solution or need one?

[Gains]

In my design the headlight is held by the fairing itself and the dash sits on two small brackets that also hold the top of the fairing.
The whole fairing gives only 200 gr extra weight compaired to the original bike.

It fits like a glove on the zero s /sr but it doesn t fit on a ds unless you replace the handlebar and the front wheel and remove the front fender. Anyway the ds is not made for highway use .

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

I've ridden the DSR 620 miles in a single day via highway, so I disagree about what it's made for. I find it much more manageable at speed than the S/SR just because of the geometry and front wheel.

I'm sure an interested DS/DSR owner will make do with what you've described. Given the presumed expense and benefit of the fairing, the remaining accommodations are relatively minor.

[TheRan]

Doesn't the DS also have a differently shaped tank? So, with how that fairing integrates with the tank it might not match up with a DS.

[Gains]

What i mean is that they didn t give it a longer suspension ,crosstyres ,a big mudguard and a big front wheel to adapt it to hihgway use. I read it was to ride it on rough country roads.
Of course you can ride it on the highway ,but it is made for dirtroads aswell.
So if you do mainly highways you r better off with an s  ,pure technicaly .But if you like the ds more, why not? It s a free choise and the more choise there is the better.

[Gains]

It actually is a new tank, and it can hold 18 liter. Everything inside stays dry even in heavy rain.
Speaking of heavy rain, have you noticed the rear wheel hugger?

[TheRan]

So is the exterior of the tank also new? I assumed you just made a larger external tub to get the larger volume.

[Gains]

So is the exterior of the tank also new? I assumed you just made a larger external tub to get the larger volume.

I made the first fairing in2015 on my 2013 s and it had that handbag with a zipper build in the tank,so i made a complete tank witch looks like the original but it is less wide where it joints to the front parts of the fairing. Those points on the front of the original tank where mutch to wide. It is still the same model on this fairing. Except the top and the colour, everything is the same as 5 jears ago.

[Gains]

Awsome work!!!! I sure want one exactly like that.    I also have a SR2017 fully quiped but no fairing

I know many in the fast shared their plans or even offered to sell the material or parts to make tghese like the famous Aprila RS125 that was fabulous!

Gain, even if you offer some plans or instructions to help us to ralise a project like yours, it would be apprecaited!

Doc

Gain, even if you offer some plans or instructions to help us to ralise a project like yours, it would be apprecaited!

Doc

It is made of glassfiber and polyesterresin. It can also be made of carbonfiber with epoxi One has to have some kwowledge of the technique to have a good result ,even if he would have the moulds.
It takes a lot of work to create a new shape and make a mould. Ones you have the moulds it is handwork to make new copys ,and it takes a lot of time. I don t have plans wich are detailed enough to be of any use. I just made some sketches and then tryed with cardboard and tape to make in 3D what i had in mind. Than i made a first rough version in thin and soft aluminum sheet,wich i used as a mould for the first glassfiber version. It took weeks of work with sandpaper and polyesterpaste before it was the way i wanted it.
The complete fairing consists of 7 parts +the windschield,they all have to be created like that.
That is how i did it ,some shape it in wax or plaster but in the case of a fairing it is difficult to make it fit around the bike since it s impossible to make these materials thin enough.
Maybe i can send fairings to people in the future,i found some one to help me make them, but it takes about a week to make one conpleet fairing .

[Gains]

Those are just mirrors low tech.

[Crissa]

Agh, the quoted quotes are hard to read.

-Crissa