Looking at doing more track days and thinking either cheaper copy fairing or race fairing. My question is how good are the copies? Also how long to swap over and back from race fairing? Please tho no options about buying a track bike I've been down that route and Iam happy on my blade please don't take offense to this.
Fair bit of info on here about fitting Chinese fairings, but more for road than track. I ran an extensive thread a few months back: https://www.1000rr.co.uk/threads/2011-chinese-fairing-fit.36388/#post-474789 They are good, but a bit more brittle around the locating lugs. Some have used the plastic 'push pins' as added security, which might be wise for a track situation because you'd often be in a 'rip em off, slam em back on' situation. Time frames for fitting will be a lot less for a tracker because of no headlight and all the flapper valve paraphernalia. I think a fair estimate for front and sides, once accomplished, would be 15 mins max. You probably modify Allen screw fittings to replace with Dzus fasteners.
Not really. They're all going to have various mounting points; it's just a matter of familiarising yourself with your own and then streamlining a fit and remove process. There will always be awkwardness with the unfamiliarity of the first remove and fit. A manual might be advisable because I am fairly sure that none of the aftermarket manufacturers actually supply and instruction sheet.
Prepare for a world of pain... Well it might be just me, but when I swap the track fairings for the street fairings it took me more than 4 hours... Although my bike has a few "traps" that a regular bike won't have.
Hi Phil. My 'failings' I scored from the altar. My fairings I scored from: https://shop.auctmarts.com/
IMO your biggest challenge is the time taken to change the fairings, you'll soon get fed up if you switch fairings often. My advice would be to switch to a semi permanent fairing while your tracking the bike:- Choose a track fairing if you want easy access to the parts underneath and a fairly crash proof fairing. Choose a Chinese fairing if you want your bike to look like a road bike and have all the working lights, but are prepared to accept the fact that there WILL be an explosion of plastic shrapnel if the bike goes down.
I bought a set of the cheapest unpainted white abs fairings from auctmarts on ebay for about £250 incl delivery and customs. I wanted fairings that had the holes for the lights and so on as I didn't want to change them over when I went out to play on the road. I couldn't decide on a colour or livery and thought they might look a bit naff so I went unpainted so I didn't care if I damaged it (the point of the exercise) and also they were cheaper. This is it as I arrived at Pembrey this Saturday... All I do the for the day is remove the mirrors, tape up the lights and unplug the front light loom from the bulbs and tie them up. Really quick to get back to riding on the road and I like the look way better than I thought I would. The fairings fitted extremely well and the only bit of the fitment that's not so good is the tail unit at the back of the seat. It was supplied with a panel to fit instead of the rear seat but I tie the bike down with the rear pegs and it looked weird without the rear seat.
Looks fine to me. The only thing I'd change is probably those straps. Depending on how stable it is I'd go for ratchet straps and a bar strap. Spend less time looking out the back to check the bike is still on board
It's pretty stable as a rule but I hit a massive pothole on the M4 on the way back from Pembrey on Saturday which snapped one of the hooks which isn't great.
I got one of those clamps that go over the rear wheel, takes out the worry about suspension compression.
I think the problem was that I avoided it in the van and then the narrower track trailer hit it with some force. I saw the bike bounce around a fair bit but it all stayed in the same place. I only noticed the strap had broken when I got home. Lucky really. The real pisser is that it dislodged the baffle so that's on the M4 somewhere. Pain in the backside as it's specific to the can and not like a normal baffle. Ordered some bits up to make a new one hopefully before the next day or I'll put the standard exhaust back on.
If the strap is ok and just the hook broke, then I use these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stainles...hash=item5208734da2:m:mrYg4x9uY9qUaj8G9kh_PkA Go for the 80mm M8 version.
