Aftermarket Fairings

Anybody out there got any useful info about aftermarket fairings and/or windscreens? I do most of my riding in and around the city, and I like my bike "naked" for that purpose. However, I've been doing more and more weekend touring lately, and I'm taking a ten day road trip up to Canada at the end of August.
At my age, being buffetted by the elements for 300+ miles a day is becoming too much like work. I've been thinking about installing a fairing from an old R90s or R100s BMW, but there are drawbacks to that idea. I think the Beemer fairing would be an ideal fit visually, but it doesn't offer a great deal of wind protection from the chest up, and taking it off and putting it back on would be more time consuming than I'd like. I would also have to replace my Seca 650's giant, "freight train" headlight (which I love) with something slightly smaller in order to make the BMW fairing work.
What I need is a windscreen that offers good protection, looks decent, and is easy to mount and dismount as circumstances require. Any suggestions?

 

I mounted a Slip Streamer "Hell Fire" on my 750 Seca.
IMHO it's the perfect size for the Seca. Adds to the character, provides plenty of wind protection and stabilized the ride at higher speeds. Without it the bike was to squirrely to handle above 80mph and not comfortable at all at 65mph. Now it's smooth as silk up to and beyond 100mph.
Two thumb screws and two nut/bolts and its off, though I never remove mine.

 

Thay make a nice little windscreen called a spitfire that can usually be found on ebay or something.

 

How stable are the screens that only have two mounting points(spitfire)?

I looked at these when I was looking at the Hell Fire But liked the 4 point mount the slightly larger screen better.

 

The Spitfire is a good all clear windscreen, may the best I've seen and I think can be found for less than 90 bucks. It also give hand protection the way its designed. I'm still partial to the old vetters. they are a little heavy but the protection is unmatched plus you have storage areas.
The mounts for the slipstreams aree very good. The only thing you have to look out for on the bar mounted screens is if you ride where there is strong cross winds they can cause a wobble to develop at higher speeds that can become quite unnerving. Most have no issue but I ride across the high plains daily and here it can be a issue ifd you like to ride north of 75mph.

 

I definitely don't want a bar-mount-only screen. I was thinking about the Slipstreamer Sport Shield, but the Hellfire 24V (made for bikes with round headlights) looks like it might be worth considering. Can you see over your fairing, or do you have to look through it? After all these years of riding sportbikes and naked bikes, I don't think I could get used to viewing the world through a sheet of Lexan.

 

The screen comes just about to nose height. (I'm 5'8"). I can see over the top easily but just a slight duck and most of the light rain misses my glasses. I regularly wear a baseball cap backwards while riding and have yet to lose one even at highway speeds.

No, I don't wear a helmet unless it's extremely cold or pouring rain!

 

Do you have any pics of the bike with that screen from further back? I am worried how the look of the screen will take away from the look of the bike.

 

Maier Manufacturing has some superbike fairings but they may not give you all the protection you want. There is still some improvement in the amount of windblast you deal with.

I managed to find a 3/4 faring on ebay but that took a while. I really like the size and it does reduce the highway fatigue a lot. It does deflect a lot of the air away so I'm not actually getting blasted in the face. In fact I can ride quite comfortably with my helmet visor up.



Would you believe the color matched straight from the ebay seller?

 

Hi,

My first post here. I thought I'd share these photos of my 82 Seca with a R90S BMW fairing attached. I found the fairing body at a salvage yard years ago and picked up the wind screen and dashboard from a local BMW dealer. I filled the dashboard holes with a white faced VDO voltmeter and clock and made up my own mounting brackets out of aluminum rod and bar stock. No welding. By removing two screws from the upper mounts, the whole fairing will pivot forward to allow access to the headlight for bulb changes, etc. I should point out that the headlight is not the original one for this bike. It came with one from an XS model (smaller) when I bought the bike second hand years ago. I'm running clubman bars and have since switched to bar end mirrors.

The fairing is a nice fit on this bike. It clears the instruments and gives good protection. They seem to be a bit harder to find these days. I checked not too long ago and new parts were still available from BMW (screen, dashboard)

 

Zorko:

That looks great! What kind of bars are those?

 

They are K&N clubman bars as far as I know. I picked them up at our local accessories shop. I think I paid about $35.00 for them.

I've been looking at a set of fully adjustable Laverda bars, but they go for around $150.00. A bit steep if you have to replace them after a tip over!

 

well you got the K&N bars for back up.

The bags look sharp too. What are they?

 

The bags are 21 liter Kappas. I have a set of 40 liter ones as well that you can just see in my avatar. Lots of room in those for camping gear. I made up the racks myself. They attach to the passenger foot peg mounts and also to the upper shock mounts and the stock turn signal mount holes. I relocated the turn signals to the European location near the stop lamp. Not that Europe is near my stop lamp, but you know what I mean.

I'll try to post some snaps of the big bags and rack.