A sidebar to the Thruxton project

Well, in desparation I sent my fairing off to the only guy in the us who manufactures windscreens, and had him custom fit one. Four months later, with DAILY calls towards the end, he finally (tries) to send the fairing and fitted clear windscreen. But THAT gets lost, and sent back to him. Then, he finally sends it for REAL, and someone in the feeding chain has their way with the box. See the photos for a nice gander at it.

Happily, nothing inside got hurt. I had hundreds of dollars and months wrapped up in the fairing with the custom rework, and if the windscreen didn't work I was going to be outta luck and would have to start all over again on that part. So I feared the worst. It was not a nice time in my life, believe you me. I don't think the windscreen vendor likes me very much anymore.

But, as you can see from my previous blog, no damage occurred and we'll just chalk this one up to very sloppy handling by UPS. I like them perhaps 65% of the time, but no way 100.