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From: Andrew on 2 Nov 2009 17:12
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:54 +1100, Mister Biggus wrote:

> dont naked bikes have no fairing?

Yes, in fact it's a rule. However, if Kevin wants to believe his silver
dream racer is a naked bike, we should let him. After all, besides
spreading confusion, what harm does it do?

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Andrew
From: Kevin Gleeson on 3 Nov 2009 01:19
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:12:56 GMT, Andrew
<amckNOSPAM3047(a)telNOSPAMstra.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:54 +1100, Mister Biggus wrote:
>
>> dont naked bikes have no fairing?
>
>Yes, in fact it's a rule. However, if Kevin wants to believe his silver
>dream racer is a naked bike, we should let him. After all, besides
>spreading confusion, what harm does it do?

You call that a fairing?
From: Marty H on 3 Nov 2009 02:33
On Nov 3, 5:19 pm, Kevin Gleeson <kevinglee...(a)imagine-it.com.au>
wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:12:56 GMT, Andrew
>
> <amckNOSPAM3...(a)telNOSPAMstra.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:54 +1100, Mister Biggus wrote:
>
> >> dont naked bikes have no fairing?
>
> >Yes, in fact it's a rule. However, if Kevin wants to believe his silver
> >dream racer is a naked bike, we should let him. After all, besides
> >spreading confusion, what harm does it do?
>
> You call that a fairing?

I call it a guillotine....

mh
(but a bloody beautiful guillotine at that)
From: G-S on 3 Nov 2009 03:56
Andrew wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:54 +1100, Mister Biggus wrote:
>
>> dont naked bikes have no fairing?
>
> Yes, in fact it's a rule. However, if Kevin wants to believe his silver
> dream racer is a naked bike, we should let him. After all, besides
> spreading confusion, what harm does it do?
>

I understand that the actual definition used in certain naked class
racing is that a bike has no frame mounted and/or OE fairings.

So a bikini screen fitted to the handlebars of a bike like a Z1000
wouldn't automatically transmute it into a faired bike.

That seems reasonable to me but I'm happy to listen if someone's aware
of a more accurate definition floating around.

FWIW I do agree that called bikes with frame mounted half fairings naked
bikes is silly (eg a Bandit 1200S).


G-S
From: Andrew on 3 Nov 2009 19:08
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:19:00 +0000, Kevin Gleeson wrote:

>
> You call that a fairing?

According to That Authoritative Source wikipedia it's a quarter-fairing,
although this one appears to be frame mounted rather than hanging off the
triple-clamp. In any event, in my world, naked bikes don't have any form
of windscreen. A purist might argue that they don't have any form of
aerodynamic plastic at all. I'm not a purist.

All that aside, it's a pretty impressive project.

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Andrew
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