Chin fairing or no chin fairing?

[ZOA NOM]

Well, it's actually a fact. They are incomplete.

I restate: your opinion.

For clarity - As pictured, they lack all the parts with which they were designed and manufactured, therefore they are, by definition, incomplete. In YOUR opinion, they are desirable in their incomplete form.

[great white]

Well, it's actually a fact. They are incomplete.

I restate: your opinion.

For clarity - As pictured, they lack all the parts with which they were designed and manufactured, therefore they are, by definition, incomplete. In YOUR opinion, they are desirable in their incomplete form.

Oh I did understand what you meant, but it depends on how far back you want to go.

The designs originally did not have a chin fairing when Yamaha conceived it. I've got them in a magazine somewhere in my massive wall of 80's bike magazines somewhere. They're probably on the internet somewhere these days, seems like everything is on the internet these days....

As the design evolved, they tried variations on a theme (at one point they had a seca turbo style lower fairing in the drawing) until they settled on a design and went to production.

So in the design, the chin fairing became an ADDITION to the original design concept.

Now, as manufactured? Sure. No argument there. when I drooled over the first 84 FJ1100 to hit the showroom floor, it was manufactured with the chin fairing.

You can debate back and forth where you want to put the time stamp for "designed", but that's just where argument lives and I've got no interest in that.

Like most things in life, it's always a matter of OPINION as to where "truth" lays and it's almost always somewhere in the middle.

If you can't accept that, that's fine. We can leave it as "We agree to disagree" and go on about our respective business.

[ryanschoebel]

This definitely became a little bit hot button haha. Chin fairing or no, I think it doesn't really matter,because it only matters that you run what you like, on your bike. Think it looks nifty without the chin GW? Cool, run it without. Think it MUST be there, Rick? Cool, run it with. Everybody only has to ride their bike at the end of the day.

[great white]

This definitely became a little bit hot button haha. Chin fairing or no, I think it doesn't really matter,because it only matters that you run what you like, on your bike. Think it looks nifty without the chin GW? Cool, run it without. Think it MUST be there, Rick? Cool, run it with. Everybody only has to ride their bike at the end of the day.

Not a hot button for me at all. If it came across that way, that was not my intent.

[Pat Conlon]

I had it explained to me that the chin fairing design was originally a function of an oil sump, used to capture leaking oil, required by certain racing organizations. For track safety in the event of engine failure, they required a oil sump equal in volume to the crankcase oil volume.
Doc Hacker talks about it here on his FJ Racer web site: http://fjracer.moonfruit.com/

A FJ without a chin fairing looks just like any other UJM 70's-80's sport bike. Yawn

[ZOA NOM]

No worries, I like my race car without all the parts that came with it too. 

[Hemi Bob]

Id say there's no right answer. I've run both on and off for different reasons and different looks.

[Ribz0]

That is one sexy bike Bob!! 

[jvb_ca]

I think my 86 ambulance needs a chin fairing.....bikini???
Jake..