Modified Tail

Thought I would share with everyone my tail fairing that I am doing. I'm not a big fan of the look of the wide rear so I thought I'd thin it up a bit. This tail was busted up a bit so I didn't really mind chopping it up. I don't never really think of taking pictures until its too late so all the steps aren't there.

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I like that look. I reckon I'd go further and plastic-up the whole tail light opening (leaving the half moon in place) then fit these lights, or the clear LED aftermarket ones that look the same (RC51 lights, bike is FotoMoto's bike when it had an RC45 tail):

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Edit: And then of course I find exactly the bike I had in mind:

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Built by another member here, D4N, who has since sold it. Tail section is Thurn.

I have a busted up tail in my shed, so follow this with interest   :beer:

With the tail light shown it would be a no brained to wire up the right and left sides to signal. Integrate the lot. Nice

Go for it - I also think this wide rear section is too big for the bike, visually. Are you doing this in fibreglass then?

Nope no fiberglass, I cut out a couple triangle shaped sections and used a heat gun to reshape the part that was left, used some of the pieces I cut out and trimmed them and glued them in place. If I remember ill get a picture of the inside of the fairing and you can see the pieces that were cut out and put back in. I'm using various glues for it, some type of superglue and 2 different epoxies to bond everything together and fill in the gaps. For this tail I'm going with the stock tail light but am hooking up an integrator to it. I have another tail section its an airtech race tail that came with the bike and i bought a zzr led tail light that I will be putting in that one . I'm making this tail one piece, all the pieces have been glued together and the seems filled in.

groovy.  post progress please.

Looks great so far.  My brother did this on a Gen4, but my Gen 3 tail is too pristine to cut on.

Here's a picture of the inside of the fairing, you can see where the pieces that I cut out and put back in.

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Just got my other tail light in today, so I'm gona start working on my other tail section, this light is led with built in blinkers, should look good I think. I got a whole set of race fairings with the bike, and I don't race so I figured is make it for the street and I like the single seat look.

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