Planning to order Chinese Fairings

Sup forum! Planning to order some custom Chinese fairings, sometime in the future, for my viff and I've been working on some comps. I am extremely picky and indecisive when it comes to designing things for myself.

This is what I have so far. I still want to have a red bike but with a little more sumthin-sumthin.

 

I haven't heard a good tbing said yet about Chinese plastics. Everyone who has had experience with them say the fit is plain shitty. If your farings are in good shape, why not just get them painted? If you have any talents with paint and masking, try out different design ideas with Plasti-dip paint. If you don't like it, it just peels off like tape without any damage to the surface paint. If you like what you've done, get it painted permanent or get a wrap done. Wraps are not hugely expensive.

 

Check out auctmarts.com. There's a guy over on vfrd that just bought some from them and had a custom paint job sprayed on them. They turned out really nice and he said the fit was very good. All for the low low price of $400. US.

 

Thanks! I might just get my oem plastics painted. The previous owner had faded plastics anyway.

I actually plasti-dipped it a few months back and looks pretty dope. It's held up well except when I splashed a little gas on the tank.

 

Read that post. Pretty in depth review. That's where I was planning to order from but he also said that the tank cover didn't fit. I was hoping to order from a vendor that had everything fit.

 

Good idea, But I would go with used Honda panels . The china stuff is as Randy says garbage. I don't think it would attach too well.:funky:

 

Unlike SOW who has a remora like grip on a few threads and many shemales.

 

Seems like the other way around-BB hounds me to no end and calls me names, I think he looks like that Fat Basterd in the movie Gold member. That's what trolls look like.

 

All paints fade. All paints oxidize. Some colors fade more than others. If your current fairings are in good repair, use them. Buy a book on automotive painting and read it. The most current publications contain information on painting ABS plastic.

For ideas on graphics look to not only Hondas but to custom bikes and cars. Graphics and designs can be done in paint and in applique'.

You may wish to do much of the work yourself. For the final spraywork. Hire it out. The paint is toxic and may require modification that is way beyond the scope of a short post

My thinking is that the Chinese replacement fairings all come from the single source and that the ads lead one to believe that they are different businesses. A close look at syntax and language structure indicates this IMO.

There are other alternatives to replacement fairings as well in fiberglass from the US, Germany and France.

 

Aw shucks! SOW is only an acronym based on your own creation. "Son Of Wolf". Then you changed it from Son of Wolf to Sun of Wolf. Therefore a new acronym "SUW", would not have the impact that the memtal picture withoot calling you names unless you may be thinking you are like the dude in the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Names Sue". Probably already taken by one or more of your mixed gender companions anyway.

Do you mean "Goldfinger" as played by the German actor Gert Frobbe in the film of the same name? Maybe another name change would be in order. We could ask for the other contributors to submit names or ideas for names. Since Wolf is genderless I think SOB might be a better fit.

 

I'm the guy from VFRD that just did a Chinese fairing swap. It's a long thread over there but the quick and dirty is, the ones I purchased are well worth the price. Don't opt for the additional tank cover as the molding process for that piece is compression molded, vs. ABS injected for the fairings. Fitment of the tank cover was not good, and it broke during attempted install, but the fairings themselves are spot-on. The paint is a solid 9/10 on the fairings , but if you're really trying to pick it apart, you'll find small errors. Fitment of the fairings, was darn near perfect and even as someone that had ZERO history wrenching on bikes, I was able to swap it over the course of a few days.

The tank is currently getting painted to match the scheme, but here's how it turned out.






Plenty of pics and thoughts over in that thread.


Stages...

 

The part that is a little hard to understand is that the condition of the OEM fairing doesn't look all that bad. So why use one of the Chinese kits?

 

Name calling BB is a waste, since nothing can get rid of a troll like a chipmunk that a cat can't catch
Perhaps I start calling BB=Monk or monkey seems in order. I does look like china stuff can work after much trouble.

 

It was scratched on both sides, and it's a 13 year old bike that I bought used. Previous owner didn't care too much about its appearance so it seems, plus I wanted to have something that looked different.

This kit was very affordable, and bolts together as OEM does.


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SOW goes ape!

 

Will you have the OEM fairing up for sale here? I am sure someone here can use the entire package or even some of the parts. This could help pay for the paintjob pending on the tank.

I see the factory in China has secured a US distributor with all the bells and whistles. It would be interesting to compare and contrast what you bought and other iterations that folks were not happy about. Much of this is in the archives.

 

This could be good news. If they have a US distributor, maybe their quality control might improve. We can hope.

 

Absolutely, I'd sell them. I wouldn't do pieces, but if someone wants an entire Italian Red kit, make me an offer. No rash, but some scratches on the two large side fairings that the previous owner used touch up paint on. No cracks, nothing else much to discuss on them really. I wanted something that looked new, and I wasn't exactly in love with the whole thing being red. I even have boxes to ship them in, from the Chinese swap...

 

Its your call but if I were you, take them off, and into a competent body shop and get them painted. Those scratches can easily be fixed and you still have quality parts. It is not a big deal to remove all the parts. I did so myself a couple years back. You can even do the sanding to save on that. I let the shop do the whole thing but I was working then and bringing in a salary. I am on fixed income now.

 

I don't think you're following me. I've already completely rebuilt the bike with aftermarket fairings, and I have an OEM set, in Italian Red, laying around doing nothing.

The aftermarket fairings I put on, are of very good quality, had no fitment issues, and look amazing.