sp1 fairings

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:21 am

saw this storm on fleabay and thought it looked the dogs, how easy is it to fit sp1 fairings on a storm? anyone done it on here??

Item number: 260307292701

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:57 am

d'oh should have spotted that one matey! looks like a good fit to the bike on the side pics tho, mind pics can lie

mite av to do a net search on aftermarket storm fairings

alan · Post by **alan** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:51 pm

its a Mettisse fairing iirc German company who do a few different designs for the vtr

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:40 pm

cheers alan, mite av a look into that, do like the look of it

RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:17 pm

Might be the angle the photo's taken from,

or perhaps the shape of the headlights,

personally I think that looks a right dog!

Looks too long to me - prolly is just the angle

Gonna have to take a better look at metisse fairing pictures on web, cos I quite fancied one till I saw that picture.

Thanks for the posting - could've saved me some future money

alan · Post by **alan** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:57 pm

They do a few different ones G that ones not very nice imo but they do a very very nice seat unit complete with subframe,lights about 350 euros

RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:12 pm

Hi Alan,

Thankfully I'm not the only one that thinks it looks sh1t (at least from that angle)

Yeah, seen the sexy seat unit - TBH taken more notice of that than the fairings.

If I had the dosh I'd be looking at the sexy Italian stuff - but in GRP unless a lotto win came my way then it'd be CF

rst steve · Post by **rst steve** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:52 pm

That looks like a YZF750 fairing. Thinking of changing mine but looking at cbr600rr top fairing.

alan · Post by **alan** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:58 pm

Been searching my old post,s and the web and Thurn motorsport also do a fairing similar to the one above,
mettisse also do a projector twin headlight that replaces the standard storm unit plugs right in no fettling to do.

Sirch found this one posted awhile back heres the link

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... ht=metisse

bikerpiker · Post by **bikerpiker** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:34 am

I came across this a while back, all sorts of goodies for firestorms, it was in a 2005 thread, looks very smart imo

Almost identical to an SP1 fairing

http://www.poly26.com/modele.php?mq=2&md=38

Post by **sirch345** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:20 am

Nice find Stevie

Chris.

rst steve · Post by **rst steve** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:48 pm

I'm reckon i will get flamed for this but i think the SP1 top fairing is really ugly. Think it looks to soft and round and kinda bug eyed. I think last years blade, R1, 916 or newer gsxr's have the best looking top fairings. They look very sharp and aggressive.

bikerpiker · Post by **bikerpiker** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:06 pm

[quote="rst steve"]I'm reckon i will get flamed for this but i think the SP1 top fairing is really ugly.

You might

If everyone liked/bought the same things, the world would be a boring place

Also,things change opinion wise,i really didnt like the 'storm fairing untill recently, but, somehow its kinda grew on me

Beamish · Post by **Beamish** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:40 pm

Would it not make more sense to trade in for an SP1 as the fairing ,plus tail unit plus paint would put the price into SP territory for sure. Saying that you would have a completely different performing bike underneath so each to their own.

bikerpiker · Post by **bikerpiker** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:00 pm

Without goin back to the website, fairing and tailpiece around 600euros

,and 'storms currently selling under a grand,sometimes a lot less with panel damage , someone could have a very individual bike for not a lot of money

I like the Sp1 fairing,maybe not cutting edge, but at least its a wee bit different from most of the pack imo