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Fairings for CB400F?
SteveD CB500K0:
--- Quote from: ka-ja on August 07, 2024, 10:14:03 AM ---i have a mk 1 rickman laid in the garage, needs a bit of work though.
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Does it have the mounting brackets. They hooked around the tank mounting points (had to cut down the rubbers). They were impossible to find.
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ka-ja:
It Has a mounting bracket that would need "doctoring" as it was originally altered for clip ons, it mounts on the horn area frame web and the front downtube, probably not originally for a 400/4, its 40 yrs since I used it, a long time to remember!!
TrickyMicky:
If you do fit a fairing and have to make your own brackets, please make sure that they are man enough for the job and mounted to something substantial. Vibration and wind pressure can wreak havoc after a while, and then what normally happens is they break and the fairing just drops and gets trapped under a wheel. Sad memories of Ian Ashwell at the 1968 Brighton Speed Trials. Stay safe everyone.
Laverda Dave:
I had a 1/2 length Rickman fairing on my original 400/4 back in the very early 80's. It was a bit like the Polaris fairing without the lower panels and had very substantial fixings to the forks and handlebars. I bought the bike with all the luggage fitted as it had been used for touring by the PO. It had a small opening compartment on the front above the headlight. I went with a mate (who's 400/4 I now own) to Wells-next-the-Sea for a weekend. The bike was very lightly loaded. On the way home home we were on a motorway and we overtook some cars at about 80ish. When I went back in to the inside lane and dropped back down to 70 the bike went into a violent and uncontrollable tank slapper, it took me across the three lanes of the motorway and nearly into the central reservation. It was caused by the fairing being so large and heavy as it was double skinned.
I removed the fairing and all the luggage after that episode and never had a problem again. I was lucky the bike was a 95MPH red F and not the125MPH Parakeet Yellow F2, who knows what could have happened at those warp speeds ;). At least it cured my constipation :o
Aye Gee 1977:
Image of a contemporary fairing on a bike I bought new in 1977.
The fairing was added after a couple of years. It is branded Honda but I think Rickman was the manufacturer. The bike was ridden to exhaustion before being consigned to the back of the garage in 1983. It took me a mere 40 years to start the restoration.
Does anyone have a good rear mudguard outer, please?
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