Turns out there wasn't enough interest to do a run of these, so I'm dumping the info here. Keep in mind the following license:
Friar's Lightbar by
John Bedard is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at
lh5.googleusercontent.com.
With that out of the way, here are pictures of the original I made from flat steel and had chromed several years ago:
Here's the file I sent to the waterjet cutter for the first prototype. For you do-it-yourselfers, have at it, I only ask you don't redistribute this image without attribution and a link to this thread, and certainly don't use it to make any money. You don't need to use a waterjet, if you have the know-how you can just print the larger one out and transfer it to metal and start cutting.
Larger Image Trial fit of the prototype. Just put a bolt in to locate the bracket. Looks good to me. I added an 1/8" to the center portion to close up the gap towards the front of the yoke. Not to bring it flush, necessarily, just close the gap.
NOTE: The image above doesn't have the extra added to the center section, which should be 2" deep, not 1-7/8". I'll track down the latest image and fix this post later.
Here you can see the gap I'm referring to, as well as the potential interference with the two front fork shroud bolts.
Clears the fork shroud area itself.
Sticks out plenty far so the lights won't interfere with anything else.
Just about any lights will work, provided they have a pivoting base (Bates-style mount?). My original bracket was a direct replacement for the bar that comes with the factory lightbar kit. You could use cheap fog lights, PIAA driving lights or Joker Machine halogens or whatever, just remember the base has to pivot like the factory lights. As far as the wiring goes, I recommend buying the original factory lightbar wiring harness. It's around $30 and it's plug and play.
Potential lights, ranging from inexpensive to top of the line:
http://www.fasteddysports.com/?page_id=3&product_id=603http://www.fasteddysports.com/?page_id=3&product_id=602http://www.jokermachine.com/itemstreet2004.asp?ItemID=419&CategoryID=70&Placeholder=0Now go forth and cut metal...
