hi from a ... frog !

[Justin B.]

Here is a bigger pic:

[Lucio_Lopez]

Hi to everyone from by now, HOT Guadalajara, good to see a growing forum... Notice your center stand Justin...would you tell us more about it, it is robust isn't it?

Saludos,

Lucio

[SCJJR65]

Yeah, is that one of those Reynold's Ride-Off stands, Justin?  (Or is it made by Brown?)  :-?

[kikoth]

hi there,

i just get the picture...
Lucio is right, tell us more, and first of all, did YOU do it
for the fairing, it fits VERY WELL your bike !!!   [smiley=beerchug.gif] and the colour is quite fine !

i imagine it in the deep black i want for mine, sounds good !!!

for my web page ( if google wants at least ... ) the link is :
http://monsite.orange.fr/kikoth/      still doesn't work but it might happen !

Justin, let me tell you more about " frogs " !!!

the whole story is that most of the french people use to eat frog's legs, ( not me, i'm a veg', and i live in the country close to the nature, so i enjoy frogs like birds, but NOT in my plate !!!    ) and english people are disgusted, they fell angry with that ( as i do ) so they call french people " frogs " to remind them how primitives they are... that all , folks !!!  

hope everything is ok for you all, Beemers !!!
have another great day,

chris

[Justin B.]

Oh, OK, I thought that maybe frog-legs might enter into the picture somewhere.  I have never ate any (is this something else that "tastes just like chicken"?) but they are considered delicacies (and rather expensive) some places over here (maybe Louisiana?) as well and I might try a bite if I was ever sitting next to somebody who was eating some.  The Cajun culture is deeply rooted in things French.  I really don't care, people can eat whatever they like but some things I can't watch!

The stand is a Reynolds Ride-Off, but they are no longer available.    They pop up on e-Bay now and again so if you really want one, and are patient, you should be able to find one.

The color is what Shoei calls "Anthracite".  My kid bought a Shoei RF1000 helmet in that color so we had the color matched at the DuPont store and painted the bike to match the helmet.

[kikoth]

hi everybody...

justin :  yes, people says that taste like chicken ...

if i don't turn mad, you said your fairing is a copy ? in fact, if i look with attention,   i confirm it is BUT for once i have to say that the copy is quite better than the  model !   [smiley=embarassed.gif]
do you remember who did it ? any idea of the cost ( anyway , it can't be as expensive as BMW ones... )
and what about direction signals ? can't see them on the pic...
anyway, you made it perfectly, as you did for the forum !!!   [smiley=beer.gif]
thanks for all that !!!

Oh, by the way, the link up there works, for anyone interested... please excuse the very bad quality of the pictures, i'll do my best this week end to do something better... as you can see the R60/5 needs to be painted, but i'm going to be obliged to sell her, so i wait for the buyer to know if he wants me to do it ( and pay for that ) or buy her cheaper as she is now... i'll keep you informed...
 
have a nice day everybody...

chris

[Jon_P]

i had bought a givi fairing for the r65 but my son thought it would look better on the kz650 we have (dont tell him but i think the bugger was right) and it fits nice around a stock headlamp. givi is made someplace over in the EU so maybe your prices are better than ours here. they have alot of different styles and sizes.

[kikoth]

thanks to you, Jon...

i went on the GIVI site, it seems like they no more do RS / RT fairings, they seem to be concerned only by " the new generation " ...
 
Let's have a beer on the " poor old ones " !!!   [smiley=beerchug.gif]

have a great  day,

chris

[Bob_Roller]

I'll post my opinion on frog legs, I have been consuming them my whole life, I had relatives that resided on farms with cattle ponds and went hunting quite often in an area of rivers and small lakes, and it was quite common to take a pellet gun and go out and 'harvest' 30 or so frogs for dinner. They don't taste like chicken, but it is a mild firm meat. It all depends on what you've been exposed to throughout your life, I guess that it's the thought of what you are eating, as compared to what it actually tastes like.

[Justin B.]

Chris, I went over every square inch of it looking for logos, makers marks, anything, when we had it tore down to paint it and nada.  I have had several knowledgeable folks look at this fairing and they concur with me that it appears to be a hand-laid true fiberglass copy and very probably a one-off.  It uses a BMW windshield, BMW mirrors, and BMW upper mount  and cross-bar mount.  The lower brackets appear to be the only non-BMW mounting piece and are hand fabricated.

The fairing has no cutouts for the "parking light" or turn signals.  If you look closely you will see some little "bumps" right in front of the mirror, they are LED stick-on amber running light/turn signal gizmos.  They light up but cause the flasher to think a bulb is out so everything blinks real fast.  I had originally intended to recess some sort of signals but had put so much work into fixing all of the stress and gel-coat cracks I couldn't bring myself to cut any holes back into it!  Hence, the stick-ons...

[kikoth]

well, Justin, i guess you're the kind of people able to be in the right place at the right time , you're quite lucky !  [smiley=clap.gif]

may be that's why you're the boss !!!   [smiley=laugh.gif]

have a nice day,

chris