Bought some more bits

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Pierre · #1 Post by **Pierre** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:34 am

Thought I better post some stuff over here before falcomonkey gets a massive head start and makes everyone his biaaach :)

Went to ruforth autojumble and bought some fibreglass matting etc to make a numberplate board. (i think i posted a sneak of it on an unrelated thread on ARS)
The front fairing bracket was broke hence the '80s superbike look. As usual i borked it up. Made the shape i wanted out of cardboard then wrapped the fibreglass round then chucked it in a bucket of water to disolve the card. But I'd fibreglassed the wrong side so my fairing is babybum smooth on the inside

Covered it with stickybacked carbon to try and hide the mountain range effect.
Just need to wire an led to my fans so I know if its reached 100degrees, and another led to my fuel warning light. Ignition is by a chrome toggle switch on the numberboard. Simple is as simple does

Also grabbed a bargain (i think) An RSV lower fairing that I've seen the tuono lot use to make cheap bellypans with. I need to reshape it to get rid of all the fairing mounting lugs and spray it up but cant complain for £25

I'll post some piccys up when i get a bit more time to sort the bellypan out.

edit: found the piccy. clicky :-

falcomunky · #2 Post by **falcomunky** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:44 pm

Nice work Mate!

I take it you bought a right-off?
You gonna track it?
Can I have a go, please, purty-puurrrrrrrrrleeeeeeeease!

#3 Post by **Kwackerz** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:49 pm

Lookin' Good!

Crashbungs rock btw..

falcomunky · #4 Post by **falcomunky** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:50 pm

First mod I do to EVERY bike Ive owned, (unless there already on of course...)

Pierre · #5 Post by **Pierre** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:26 pm

Yea you can have a go, but you'll need to stump up the £100 for the trackday cos they dont let you pop out for a couple of laps :P

Take yours but crash mine, it'll work out cheaper

Should be doing croft in march to test it, and then cadwell and another couple if it goes ok otherwise i'll have to take my good one which does have bungs on :) I have all the fairings but the fairing mounting bracket is scrap and that was the only real damage apart from paint scratches. 2002 for £1700 about a year ago

I need some lightweight wheels and some unwarped brakediscs

Pierre · #6 Post by **Pierre** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:05 pm

Got a few scrapes on it but its not bad enough to get resprayed and it is only a trackbike.

Just needs the clutch sorting, a new chain and finishing making a mould for the seat unit, oh and my carbon cans repacking.

D-Rider · #7 Post by **D-Rider** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:40 pm

Pierre - that does look good and could just be the answer to my mille exhaust conundrum!

Obviously this will fit with the mille oil tank - unlike my skidmark bellypan.

When you get the mid panels fitted, please post more pictures as I'm wondering what the interface between the falco mids and the RSV bellypan looks like.
BTW which year RSV bellypan is this?

Cheers!

#8 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:52 pm

I really do like the look of that. Cafe racered Falco. Hmm.. I could go fer one of those!

Pierre · #9 Post by **Pierre** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:26 pm

Well that was a crap night out, home for 9pm ffs. annnyway

I'm not putting any mid fairings on. I tried them but if you look at the falco ones they go right forward to where the headlight would be and would be stuck out in midair. I think I'm just gonna go for the naked look :)

And I have no idea on the year of bellypan as it was just laid in a pile of bodypanels upside down. All i did was cut the fairing-joining lugs off and that triangle of matt black plastic is a homemade fibreglass fill-in to hide some ugly fixings. I've never been too keen on the lower part of the falco, hence my bellypan on my good one and this was just a cheap way of tyding it up. I stole the idea from the tuono wierdos

D-Rider · #10 Post by **D-Rider** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:02 pm

Ah OK .... no worries. I'll keep my eyes open for one at a good price and figure it out for myself.

Thanks for the inspiration though.

falcomunky · #11 Post by **falcomunky** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:05 pm

Is it possible to fit an RSV subframe?

Thought about it fer a later project fer mine...
Would look nice with the tail plastics off a Mille!

Syltiz · #12 Post by **Syltiz** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:02 am

I think Falcopops had that project in mind. And someone on AF1 had a thread about it. Personally I like the Faclo rear-end.

FM - what you need is the extremely rare smoked rear light cover like F9 has on his bike... that looks wicked on a silver Falco.

northend · #13 Post by **northend** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:24 am

FM - what you need is the extremely rare smoked rear light cover like F9 has on his bike... that looks wicked on a silver Falco.

They also look cool on ultra fast bronze ones

Syltiz · #14 Post by **Syltiz** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:12 pm

Hehe. I was lucky enough to pick one up off ebay for £30 awhile back. Looks really nice on my uber sooper ultra fast Flamingo Red too

bigun · #15 Post by **bigun** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:08 pm

Nah, you need the clear lense on a silver falco!

Might post some pictures of mine later just to wind you up FM!