Cafe Faring
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04-07-2013, 04:11 PM
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I picked this old Tracy fairing up on eBay about a year ago. It was made specifically for Sportsters (5-3/4" headlight opening). I made nice custom brackets for it, and no mods are necessary to the bike - I can take it off in a couple minutes and there's no evidence it was ever there. Works very well, especially at higher speeds...
Arlen Ness makes a narrow glide cafe' fairing, but you have to relocate the headlight outward to get it to fit right. Most all the other classic cafe' fairings out there (like the pic Mick posted) have a 7" headlight opening. You have to either: live with a space around your headlight, mount a larger headlight, or mod the fairing to make the hole smaller. The stock Sportster headlight sits so far back that most aftermarket fairings will hit your bars, cables, forks, etc. before they reach the headlight, too. I saw a pic of one modified with part of a plastic flower pot that made the headlight hole smaller and moved the fairing out a couple inches - looked like a good idea.
Arlen Ness makes a narrow glide cafe' fairing, but you have to relocate the headlight outward to get it to fit right. Most all the other classic cafe' fairings out there (like the pic Mick posted) have a 7" headlight opening. You have to either: live with a space around your headlight, mount a larger headlight, or mod the fairing to make the hole smaller. The stock Sportster headlight sits so far back that most aftermarket fairings will hit your bars, cables, forks, etc. before they reach the headlight, too. I saw a pic of one modified with part of a plastic flower pot that made the headlight hole smaller and moved the fairing out a couple inches - looked like a good idea.
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04-15-2013, 10:38 PM
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Well, it will be a little different for a newer bike, but basically, I bought some thick chrome muffler straps and bent them to fit. One on each side to the top triple clamp, and one centered on the bottom to the underside of the lower triple clamp (brake hose mount). I then drilled the fairing to fit the bracket locations so it was tight to the headlight and mounted it with rubber washers (rubber washers not shown in 2nd picture). Here are a couple pictures:
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