Big Wheel Addict

Today I finally mounted my new round headlight.
Here's the result:

(http://www.floraveronese.net/fanale_tondo_1.jpg)

(http://www.floraveronese.net/fanale_tondo_2.jpg)

I still have a few things to adjust...
like adding a third support at the bottom of the headlight...
but it already works like this.
Connecting wires was the easiest thing ever.
Then I had to buy a couple of nuts and screws, but it all went very smoothly.
As soon as I can I will write a detailed report and put it online,
in case somebody else wants to do the same.

Well, now little TW has kind of a "Hornet-like" look.
It's even more beatiful than type II...  :-P

Really nice... I'm sure a lot of the forum members are going to copy you. It was one of the tings I wanted to do on my Type I, but I never had the courage to try this...

I really like your HorneTW !!!

Thank you, it really was much easier than I thought! I must thank christddel again for his tips.

Oops, I'll have to change the picture in my sign...

hi sinophilia !

You did it fine. The result is very convincing and very ...clean.  Congrats.

[color=990033]christddel rules !!![/color]
 8-)

La bulle semble etre une alternative à l'Ermax. A priori c'est une bulle de marque PUIG. Réference ?
Il serait interessant pour les interessés  :-P  de savoir où on peut en avoir et à quel prix.

The windscreen seems to be a good alternative to the Ermax. It seems to be a PUIG. Reference ?  It woud be interesting for the intersted  :-P to know where and for how much to get one.

Yes, the windshield is a PUIG. It costed me only 19,95 at ww.louis.de. The code is 10006508.

If you want, the whole story of this headlight replacement is online here:

http://www.sinophilia.org/diana/tw/pics_1_4.htm

Maybe someone can translate/rewrite it in French.

So cool!!!

I'm sure Olox will put a link on http://yamaha.tw.free.fr/

I did a few more pictures but my FTP is down right now  :-(
As soon as it works again, I will upload more pics.
The page about replacing the headlight will be at the following URL,
in case Olox wants to link or translate/summarize it in his site:
http://www.sinophilia.org/diana/tw/headlight.htm

By now, you can see a "definitive" picture here:

(http://www.floraveronese.net/tw_mag04_1.jpg)

Diana,
  Great job :yes:.

Le lien ne fonctionne pas...  :-)

Celui là si.

http://www.sinophilia.org/diana/tw/pics_1_4.htm

I know, I hadn't uploaded that page yet  :-)
Now it should work!

If you want to check the whole site it's
http://www.sinophilia.org/diana/tw/

 Plus que cela, c'est un poids plume.... On doit tous luis rendre plus de 20 Kg.... :-D

Ou alors faire un peu de sport, et monter un kick....(http://yelims.free.fr/Sourires/Sourire129.gif)
(http://yelims.free.fr/Sport/Velo.gif)



[ Edité par T2vv le 14/5/2004 0:12 ]

il y a des gens pres de perpignan qui serait capable de me le faire ?  =p

on gagne combien en vitesse avec la bulle ?

Is there any people near of perpignan who is able to do this job for me ?

How do we win in speed ?

I am a french noob with a poor english  =p

Salut l'anonyme,

La modification, effectuée de main de maître, ne présente toutefois (aux dires du récit qui en est fait) aucune difficulté majeure.

La bulle et le phare rond sont dispos en moins d'une semaine chez louis.de et, en cas de plantage ou de bloquage, l'aide du divin christddel te permettra de mener à bien le projet (deux/trois petits trucs concernant le raccordement du faisceau de ta TW avec le phare ...

Bonne route,

 ;-)

Great job Diana !
The headlight looks good and your detailed explanations on your site are really nice for others (like me !) who would like to make the transformation. Let us know if a third attachment point is necessary on the headlight (due to vibrations)
Have a safe drive !
Francky

Thank you everybody,
the job is actually very easy, you just need to buy the necessary nuts and bolts.
As for the third support, I think I will use a flat aluminum strip so I can bend it as I like... distance between the two attachment points is short so it should be strong enough to just keep the headlight in place, even if it's flexible.
I'll let you know.
Have a nice week-end!

Did you remove the black metal frame that currently held the original headlight ?
Where do you plan to attach the third point, to the existing point (below the square headlight) on the fork support where the black metal frame was attached ?
Thanks for your support.

Yes to both questions, Francky.
Anyway, today I rode for about an hour across the city, with peak speeds of 80 km/h, and neither headlight nor windshield moved a bit.
Only thing I noticed, is that the headlight glass was steaming hot when I finally stopped... was the old one too? I didn't notice...

Well, for a few kms I found myself together with a group of "gros cubes" (Monster, Hornet, CBF600) and I swear, little TW didn't look out of place! ;-)

Diana,

Yes glass of the headlight, on the original model, is also very hot, nothing worrying.  :-)

ok, thank you! :-)

One more test yesterday: riding in two.
As you know, the light beam rises a lot with two persons... the old headlight wasn't very bright so this didn't disturb anybody, but this one is really dazzling! So I decided to lean it down a little, even more than needed.

Hier j'ai fait un autre essai:  monter en duo.  Comme vous savez, le faisceau lumineux s'élève beaucoup avec deux personnes... le vieux phare n'était pas très lumineux ainsi n'a pas dérangé quiconque, mais celui-ci brille vraiment beaucop!  Ainsi j'ai décidé de pencher le un peu vers le bas, encore plus que nécessaire.
[Google translation edited, is it understandable?!?]

Very fine ! It's nearly fluent french !

Grazie mille Diana for your explanation !
It's a while we were waiting for such article !

I just put a link on the site. I'll translate it later.
By the way your website is really classy.

Ciao

Thank you Olox!
Actually I started building that website for myself, to put my TW pictures in order, and to learn how to use Dreamweaver (I had never used a composer before). But I had free space at my webhost so in the end I published it... ;-)

Is your headlight this one ?

(http://www.louis.de/shop/img250/10033992_880.JPG)

10033992 HAUPTSCHEINWERFER SCHW.
SEITL.BEFESTIGUNG 180MM    
 69,95  

Next challenges:

Old skool:

(http://www.evamotor.nl/Daytona/41905_41906%20headlightclassicindicator.jpg)


Ultimate:

(http://www.louis.de/shop/img450/10033671_880_02.JPG)

>Is your headlight this one ?

Yes!

pour le modèle old skool c'est HOG qui va être content et pour l'ultimate eh bah c'est moi , olox tu pourrais nous avoir les prix des jolis p'tites lumières que tu nous as trouvés et sur quel site ,marci bocou

Le gros est magnifique !!!!!!
Celui de Diana aussi. Quand j'aurais mon TiWi, je ne mettrais pas longtemps à craquer........ ! :hammer:

Pour avoir plus d'info il faut aller ici:

http://www.evamotor.nl/Daytona/daytona_japan_special_parts_for3.htm (http://www.evamotor.nl/Daytona/daytona_japan_special_parts_for3.htm)

C'est mon banquier qui va faire la gueule !  :-P

Diana tu fais de très belles photos : tu ne serais pas photographe par hasard ?

c'est fait avec un numérique ?
le netteté et l'exposition sont impressionnants !

merci xfreeman!

non, je ne suis pas photographe, je pense que les photos sont belles remercient à mon Nikon Coolpix 5400, un numérique très bon.  :-)

je commence à apprendre ce qui sont les meilleurs angles pour prendre des photos à la TW... elle est une top model  :-D