Subject: Re: Windscreen and Lightbar Mounts
Author: David Otis
Date: Jan 7, 2001, 1:52 PM
Post ID: 1704791786
At 11:45 AM 1/7/01 -0800, you wrote:
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that would be this bracket, found on LAPD models
http://www.loopframe.com/images/misc/lapdbrkt.jpg
the dash cut looks like this
http://www.loopframe.com/images/misc/lapddashside.jpg
which you don't want to do to your dash
I presume that the lower support was
| probably held by the lower triple tree clamp bolts. Anybody got a picture of how this all fit together? The net is full of side and rear view photos, but I can't find a one that clearly shows how this stuff was mounted to the forks. Other questions: 1) I see that MG Cycles has windscreens w/brackets that simply clamp on to the fork shrouds near the top. Any comments on how well these work and their cosmetic appearnace? |
They work great, wasy to install and look great too.
they look like this
http://www.loopframe.com/images/misc/clampon.jpg
and like this installed
http://www.loopframe.com/images/misc/mountedbrkt.jpg
2) Are there options for using other light bars besides the original LAPD style Guzzi ones? There are some neat looking retro style kits out there for HD's and Hondas. Anybody come up with a way to graft one onto an Ambo without it looking like a Rube Goldberg contraption? |
I have mounted them like this
http://www.loopframe.com/images/Heather/done4.jpg
by simply bending a piece of flat strap steel and driling holes.
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