right good morning welcome back day 53 Hayabusa built and thank you first of all for your amazing support and kind comments its spurring me on it truly is and I absolutely love this just like you do I starting out with that twin light hoop just thinking that twin lights will look great on a big wide bike and then it went on from there you know the rest it starts to look a bit tier 6r or I don’t know let’s just kind of bring those pieces in there very tier six on and then this piece around the I don’t know suddenly we’ve got a tier 6 o 11 fairing it just happened it evolved and that’s the best way because everything about motorcycle fairings it every angle and every curve just looks right it all hangs together so the pressure is on to get the last part right and make it all look perfect and that’s this top arch this curved piece here gives me the arc that I want but at the same time it’s way too long I’ve got to come up from these two ears back up and then round the top which is how the early gr6 offerings were so that’s a bit of pressure to get that right I’ve got some pictures to look at to kind of give me that if the line and the arc of where to go but at the same time I want to do it myself but I want to copy anything not directly anyway anyway chaton too much I’ve got a lot to do today so don’t point putting it off eyes down for a full house let’s just get stuck in [Applause] right bring it in this to just let you know how long this takes I’ve taken look at in our 22 12 on a clock now I’ve just made these that’s all of them today curving them as a pair perfect because I’ve got a left and a right to do and if you make them as a pair they’ll be identical so curve
them as a pair identical made that bend as a pair identical now I’ve got an identical pair I’ve got a right side and right side it’s funny too right on the left and there is a difference because that curvature that I’m trying to design is that’s the curvature of the frame as I showed you my fingers just that follows the line of the frame perfectly but this section at the top I want it to toe in very slightly so that when you’re sitting on the bike the fairing toes inwards at the top and it all looks enclosed so that one Lisa terrine and the other side that one needs to toe in that way so they both need to toe in together but then these two lines here wouldn’t follow each other they actually need to be like that that lines the same left and right but at the top they need to turn in fact that’s the left and that’s the right so they now work as a left and right pair and that kind of stupid detail just eat your time and eat your life but it’s rewarding when you get it right and I’ll show you a little trick to make sure that they are actually correct and symmetrical in their opposite mess that make any sense does it or show I mean a lamb on the bench I’ll show you it just lay them on a flat surface and then you can see if the gap underneath there is the same both sides lay them back to back and see if the height of the curves are the same when that parts laying flat you’re just looking for symmetry easy in 2008 zx6r fairings it [Applause] let’s remove my fire blanket so cool too because it’s often on fire right okay it’s very important to get this level and everything’s square and it’s very difficult when it’s all rounded and curved and swoopy but when you’ve got to curvy through piece on either side and they need to be symmetrically curvy swoopy it’s important to make sure that you find somehow a point of reference and see if it’s level and I found one now I’m using this spirit level not to see whether it’s level with the ground as a spirit level does because the bikes not necessarily level on the lift but I’m using a point on the frame want to show you I put that there what’s important is getting these two tips absolutely the same height so that they’re level across the bike when it’s riding along and then it look like that which will give you a crick in your neck so let’s show you the point of reference I’ve used and now bang on this is after two and a half hours again I’ll just grab your over at hand if I come around the back of the bike it’s all very well and good using the spirit level see if the bottoms level which is currently not but it doesn’t matter because it’s not the bikes not dead upright on the left if I get on the bike so I can show you if I come back here the point of reference is there this is the factory fairing frame and it’s mounted to the headstock of the bike and it’s absolutely level and square so put in the level across those two hooks which are going to be the back extreme corners of the fairing and then judging just squat down and pick that line there and there it is it is literally about maybe a millimeter high there end at the most probably just walked a little bit through world in but it’s only wire I can just adjust that down a bit but there we are there’s a point of reference that is about as square as it gets also measuring from this tip to the center point and that’s dead central to this one it’s exactly eight and a half inches bang bang so I know that they’re square that way in they’re towing leveled that way and everything’s going to look right right no no I not is it yeah [Laughter] [Laughter] I know what you’re all thinking how much does this weigh so let’s see we’re doing pounds announces eight millimeter mild steel frame weighs there we go okay five pounds four ounces there we are shade over five pounds in weight I don’t think that’s too bad the original fair in plastics with that massive head light probably woulda weighed at least that there’s going to be nothing else but that and the fact that that weighs five pounds that’s going to make a big difference well it’s going to play an influence on what I skin it with and it certainly won’t we steel put it on the bike okay there we are now thinking about that what to skin it with I think Steel is out of the question it’s quite a large area and that much sheetmetal would end up weighing three times what yamaha r6 fairings it does now five pounds I’m very happy with that doesn’t weigh a great deal at all happy aluminium possibly that might work but many of you have said the very obvious thing that it could be quite dangerous to have sheet metal skin up here five a front-end collision you’re going into the edge of that sheet metal it’s really bad enough with a frame but if it’s reinforced by sheet aluminium this is going to be rock solid as it is now it’s mighty flexible and I think if I was to come cascading into that from
the rear it’ll probably fold up hopefully and not do me too much damage so it needs a skin that’s gonna give just as much and I’m thinking possibly as a few of you have already said maybe fiberglass but look this is rat rod I want it different I want something wild and unique and that frame that’s delicious I love it and it would be sacrilege to hide this underneath the skin of fiberglass so make me put the skin on the inside an exoskeleton a cool is that and then what about the rear maybe get some aluminium bar and make an exoskeleton for the tail panels so they match crazy thinking but all for next time that’s it for today I can’t do any more I’ve had fantastic fun with this in four videos and I’m going to sit back and think long and hard about the next move what do I do I have got a little bit of ordinary housekeeping work to do with it it’s not finished these Bob’s the access to these box is too awkward at the moment and when is the skin on it inside it or otherwise I’m not gonna be able to get to them at all so these ones very cleverly I’ve welded the bar clean over the top of the bolt so I can’t get to it with anything other than an open end spanner and that’s no good because this Winnicott skin on I won’t get to it at all so what I’ll need to do with that is chop a piece of that bar out and weld a piece of tube in there so I can go down that tube simply with a socket and undo it from inside so well that sort of thing that’s all to come just housekeeping making and designing that frame that’s done now tick that’s it so in the next video join me if you will I’m gonna do a little simple thing that could save r6 fairings you an awful lot of money something to check to save you a fortune if you’ve dropped your bike or it’s fell over and you just can’t line the steering up properly and you’re worried it’s all bad it might not be so joy some the next on I’ll show you a little get-out-of-jail-free trick that might just save you name some money that’s always good today we are thank you for watching take it easy ride safe I’ll see you next time border since raised over in the sticks somewhere North Caroline spend lifetime making moonshine smokin homemade cigarettes soaking up the sunshine drankin animal life sharing good times with his friends the last little run Benny said he was done living the good life