headlights for SFC fairings.

[martymoose]

Some photos from the mid to late 90?s of my sf0 with Sfc fairing. First shot with Craig McLeod from Canberra. My thoughts with Craig and Zoe his wife who will be out fighting fires.

 

[martymoose]

I have all the parts now to rebuild the sf2, not with a fairing though, can?t bend any more

 

[T.C]

Great shots Marty, very impressive,  (bigthumb)

 

[martymoose]

Sf2 tank had 9 coats of black and 6 clear coats, then Armco dave stuffed it into the Armco. ( how he got his name!) went orange after that, as you do. Then I killed it.

 

[Tippie]

Was it the SF0 or the SF2 that spat you off and got you to fear SF handling, Marty?
After Vince and Carlo?s suspension exploit diaries and all the fantastic rear suspension around today you should get a sweet handler out of it now.

 

[martymoose]

Sf0 was the one that tried to kill me, handling was fine, crashed it 3 times with the drum when i couldnt stop, then i fucked up and buried in the back of a car that was turning right.  Classic fuckup, overtake a line of cars, last one is turning right, lucky to live through that one. 

 

[chrisk]

Great shots Marty, very impressive,  (bigthumb)

He sent me an impressive shot too.

Two good looking young blokes  with triples.
Marty must have found a bunch of old pictures. Mine was dropped in the driveway that morning  :'(

 

[piranha-bro2]

Great looking bikes. Marty, you make that SF look like a mini-scooter!! They are really quite little bikes.

As for drum brakes - my SF failed me on the Lobethal road in the Adelaide Hills ... luckily I just sailed off a 2m drop onto a farm driveway!

 

[terry66]

Well who knew that fitting a SFC fairing would be so hard, lots of adjusting here and there, figured out that fairing is not quite right and support is also a little bent but its getting there. The fairing blade supplied is so thin ive decided to add an alloy strip to add a bit of rigidity.

 

[Dellortoman]

Yes, most fairings are quite floppy if the top half isn't adequately supported. You may find that the aluminium strip isn't rigid enough.

I did this to support my SFC type fairing.

 

[chrisk]

Never seen an anvil used as a bar end before, did it affect the handling?

 

[Dellortoman]

Pissy little bar-end weights are not very affective at damping out speed wobbles. An anvil works way better. Also serves as an anti-wheelie device.

 

[Vince]

I did the same with the SS bevel fairing on my 3c, using an SS bevel mount that I modified. The top nut on the steering head is where mine connects and I also have a flat washer-like needle roller bearing,3mm thick, here to take any drag out of this when turning the bars. I need to do some changes to mine to make the lower fairing more parallel to the ground. Mine drops at the rear. They look much better like that and work much better aerodynamically as well. Mine has the wind hitting my helmet, a slight change will have the wind go over the helmet and reduce the buffeting I get now especially when following big trucks. I also have the instruments mounted to the fairing taking all that weight off the forks and steering. That was not easy to do, getting the clearance with all that took some work.

 

[bazzee]

Cam, what is the 9V battery next to the clutch master cylinder for?

cheers

bazzee

 

[Dellortoman]

It's to drive the Scitsu tacho. It was supposed to be powered by the bike's 12V system, but interference from the bike's electrical system would send the needle all over the place. The Scitsu tacho bloke suggested I try the 9V battery to confirm that the tacho itself was OK (which it was). The longer term plan was to put a capacitor across the 12V supply as a filtering device, but I never got around to figuring out what size capacitor would do the trick. Probably would have been a trial and error exercise.
The 9V battery gave about 100 hours of tacho operation, so the permanent solution became less of a priority.