Well maybe, but my opinion is that those lower bars look "more correct" sittin' behind that fairing than would apes because you've now got more of a cafe racer kinda thing goin' on there, and apes would just make it look, well, kinda "mixed-and-matched" in style.

Btw Chuck, I used to have a very similar fairing to that one on my old 1980 Yamaha XS11 Special. It also had that square opening like yours there, and when I made my Plexiglass headlight cover for it, I scribed some horizontal lines along the inside of that plexiglass at about an inch from each one of 'em. I thought that gave it a some more "interest" as compared to just a clean sheet of the stuff. I was goin' for that look that was on the BMW sport-tourer fairing's headlight coverings back in that era.

(...OH btw...nice job on the paint there!)


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)