I personally think beaks are one of the more ridiculous style trends in motorcycling (the beak on the new water-cooled GS is comical), but I know that plenty of others disagree.
I made it in 2 pieces as I am not totally sold on the beak either and likely will just use the side filler panels to get away from the anteater look.
Each to his own
This is a hobby and not a business, and simply a bike customising project for me. If other forum members want it so much the better and I am happy to make it available
Me either and my own bike uses just the side filler panels, less the beak. IMHO this looks better than the beak and gets away from the anteater styling trend.
I have made the mould in such a way that one can use just the side faring panel or panels c/w beak. Each to his own
we did not have the Versys here in Thailand until the 2011 model change no nothing to model the beak off. My bike is the 2011 version bought the first day available
I just returned yesterday from a 9 day trip to Laos over some pretty bad roads testing the beak mounting brackets. It seemed to hold up to the pounding OK and I will strip it this week to check for stress fractures at the mounting points
I did have some rattling over broken roads and not sure if it was the top box handles, dash panel, or the beak, so more testing is in order.
Please be patient as I so not what to ship a half baked product half way around the world
Here are some pics of the side filler panels only - less beak
Mounted with the same Kawi screws as the side fairings, and can be run this like this alone or c/w beak.
Here is the complete 3 piece kit - side panels plus the beak.
The stock Kawi allen head screws are used to mount the side panel, and the beak bolts in turn to the front edge of the side panel
Paypal will work and I am srstraghan (AT) yahoo.com
I'm sure that you can figure how to change this into a proper email address
So far I have just been making these for myself and my buddy. I would like to see how many forum members are interested, and then make a run of parts, so hold off on sending me money right now.
I'm in for the two side fairings, skipping the beaksterito.
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