I have been tring to come up with some kind of windscreen for my 06 te 610. I know about the lynx fairing but dont have the expense account for that much wright now. has anyone tryed modifing V stroms or versys windscreen to work there about the size I was looking for.
Funny, I'm about to go the Versys way pretty soon here....so if you don't beat me to it I'll give you the lowdown...
Sounds good. Im thinking it should look but have to come up with some kind of mounting bracket on the forks and or a differant head light that is more stiffer to mount to.
I made a bitchin one bolted simply to the X2 halogen headlight....will try to pix here in a couple days
This what you had in mind? That's a Zero Gravity tall replacement for a Buell Ulysses. It does a surprisingly good job for it's size.
That looks very similar to the Versys shield... Remind me, what are you using to get the bags off the pipe?
I built a custom aluminum rack that uses the factory mounting points then beefed up the subframe extensions where they are prone to crack. The windshield is held on by afixing it to the headlight fairing with snap fasteners. I wanted it to be easily removeable and also break away in the event of a over the handlebars crash, I'd rather have the windscreen pop off than my head.
Sorry it took awhile. This was inspired (OK I copied it pretty much) from an image on an Australian 610 bike. $10 of acrylic, cut with jigsaw, a few minutes in the oven, then draped over cardboard bent over the X2. Bolted on with $5 worth of spacers and hardware. Works like charm, appears wider than the X2 but is the same width. Has that homebrew look to it though.... Of yes the standoffs are 3/4", I wanted enough gap for a laminar flow, however after 2k miles the acrylic has falttened out as much as the mounting would allow and lost some curve, so the cutout at the headlight only has 1/4" now. Will get some 1" spacers to get that space back.
Did the Spitfire on my 2008 also. Used 1 1/4 inch clamps with sections of bicycle innertube to go arounf the 1 1/8 inch bars. Zipped it up to 85 mph to see how it would work and works great.
OK, this is bad ass! I still have my 06 and am planning a BDR with it this summer, I need this headlight and windshield set up, tell me how you did it please!
