VFR800rr: July 2014

Tuesday 29 July 2014

Colour scheme

Originally the side fairings I planned to just spray black, but a friend had given me some left over anthracite coloured vinyl wrap, so I decided to give the stuff ago to add some colour variation to the black.

Vinyl wrap, i found to be infuriatingly hard to get good finish with no air bubbles on such an undulating surface as a motorcycle fairing but i think after a lot of tested patience i achieved a pretty good result.

With the result i achieved i really like the anthracite colour on the bike but i felt the change from black to anthracite was a little harsh between the front cowl and side fairings and so thought to use some design to blend the two. My idea was to to have a checkered flag effect to blend the two colours and so had a fading checkered flag decal made up.

Friday 25 July 2014

Side Fairings

So the plan is to use VTR sp2 side fairings to give a sportier look and match them up to the new cbr600rr front cowl. The advantage of using vtr side fairings is the fact that the vtr also has side mounted radiators, so the air vents will allow a good amount of air flow to the vfrs rads.

Firstly by mounting the front fairing i could work out where the side fairing would sit best in terms of ground clearance, ventilation to the rads, access to the coolant filler, room for the collector pipes, and matching connection to the front fairing.

The SP2 sides fairings taped on into a rough position to see how compatible they were.

The fairings needed to be hacked into to make room for coolant filler and collector pipes.

Next matching the side fairings to the front was the next problem as there was a big difference between the two. When temporary fixed on, the difference could be assessed.