I'm finally up against an immovable obstacle with the rig.

I can't get the plexiglass/Perspex windows back in their holes!

It's reasonably simple with old fashioned glass windscreens in a steel shell, you just fit the one piece rubber on the screen, fit a string in the outer groove, offer the screen/seal up to the hole and someone inside the car pulls the string so the lip comes over the rim of the aperture.

It's not that easy with a GRP door and a perspex screen, so I think I'm going to ring the sidecar manufacturer, an hour and a half from here, and see what they say.With luck they have a real craftsman there......

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"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on,
nor all your Piety nor Wit
can lure it back to cancel half a line...
so....probably best use Tipp-Ex in future?"

1976 GL1000 "Mitzi"
1976 GL1000 and Héchard sidecar "Mitzi 2"
1977 GL1000 'The Parts Bike' now in bits
1976 XT500 'C'
1976 TT500 'C'
1980 Paris-Dakar XT500 (replica)
1992 Grinnall Scorpion SC3 prototype
1993 'Big Valve' BMW R1100RS "Red Sonja"


Hal's Nalbum

Hang in there Bud!! Sometimes challenges make us learn something new

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"I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion." DDL
1978/9 Arthur Fulmer Dressed Road bike
1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike
and a whole garage full of possibilities!!

It wouldn't be fun if everything was easy.

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Dean Spalding
Raleigh, NC

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Albert Einstein

'82 Yellow GL1100
'81 Blue GL1100

My Gallery
My 1100 Build Thread

Easy = cheap
Hard = expensive
It's just something I've picked up along the way.

(Speaking of expensive - Did your buddy get his new Godet-Vincent?)

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2006 GL1800 (Brutus Maximus)
1978 GL1000 (White Trash)
"My Effort" The White Trash Album
....Sharing some thoughts....
"Venting GL1000 Rotors" Hole templates for front and rear (45 holes) and how to use them
"Side Stand Indicator Light" For those of us who can't remember...
"GL1000 RearSets" Photos, CAD drawings and instructions (click "No Thumb" and then "Download Doc")

Hey, I'm Italian. Of course my wiring looks like spaghetti.

End of this month! Lucky guy, eh?

But it won't have an exploding tank like mine....

_________________
"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on,
nor all your Piety nor Wit
can lure it back to cancel half a line...
so....probably best use Tipp-Ex in future?"

1976 GL1000 "Mitzi"
1976 GL1000 and Héchard sidecar "Mitzi 2"
1977 GL1000 'The Parts Bike' now in bits
1976 XT500 'C'
1976 TT500 'C'
1980 Paris-Dakar XT500 (replica)
1992 Grinnall Scorpion SC3 prototype
1993 'Big Valve' BMW R1100RS "Red Sonja"


Hal's Nalbum

Those are spotlessly clean innards

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1975 GL1000 Sidecar Outfit
2001 GL1800 MotorTrike
1956 Francis-Barnett Falcon 74
2006 Vespa LX150

St. Louis, MO

The dude abides.

Ride Free on Three
Brothers of the Third Wheel - Gateway Chapter http://www.btw-trikers.org
Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club http://www.vjmc.org
Francis-Barnett Owners Club http://www.francis-barnett.co.uk/
Antique Motorcycle Club of America http://www.antiquemotorcycle.org/
Vintage Motor Cycle Club http://www.vmcc.net

Wait a minute Hal, I see you have the super-dooper shelter sides with the explosion-damping vents. It shouldn't actually blow-up anymore.
(I considered those but they make the engine sound strained.)

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2006 GL1800 (Brutus Maximus)
1978 GL1000 (White Trash)
"My Effort" The White Trash Album
....Sharing some thoughts....
"Venting GL1000 Rotors" Hole templates for front and rear (45 holes) and how to use them
"Side Stand Indicator Light" For those of us who can't remember...
"GL1000 RearSets" Photos, CAD drawings and instructions (click "No Thumb" and then "Download Doc")

Hey, I'm Italian. Of course my wiring looks like spaghetti.

Mine are the special sound damped version. They will have a foam-strip seal on the inside, and will close tight to GRP shaped three sided 'funnels' which connect to the modified airbox with 50mm flexi tubes. I've modded the airbox, and made the funnels, but not yet made the fixing brackets.

There shouldn't be any extra engine noise.

Great news! I rang Héchard today and they say no prob, bring the rig in, they can fit the windscreen anb door window and show me the trick of how to fit the nose 'window' so I can do it when I'm ready. I still need to fit the internal panels and valve, plus the oil cooler rad and pipes.

_________________
"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on,
nor all your Piety nor Wit
can lure it back to cancel half a line...
so....probably best use Tipp-Ex in future?"

1976 GL1000 "Mitzi"
1976 GL1000 and Héchard sidecar "Mitzi 2"
1977 GL1000 'The Parts Bike' now in bits
1976 XT500 'C'
1976 TT500 'C'
1980 Paris-Dakar XT500 (replica)
1992 Grinnall Scorpion SC3 prototype
1993 'Big Valve' BMW R1100RS "Red Sonja"


Hal's Nalbum