I ought to start off by apologising to Arthur Birchall over at ABC for this version of bodywork ultimately ending up in the skip, as it in no way does him justice for all the skill and sheer hard work that went into getting as far as we did.  After spending ages studying pictures of various bike silhouettes, I decided that the TL1000R fairing and GSXR600 seat unit would be a good starting pint to set about making my bodywork... and this photo shows the first fit at NK Racing together with the potential modifications scribed in pencil.

The upper fairing was modified to give the shape of the factory bike, whilst taking a standard screen from a TL1000R.

And then.... in true project bike fashion... I threw it all away and started again....

The first fairing from the mould looked pretty good, but little did I know that it would need many, more hours spent tweaking the shape, size and details to get it ready.

The lower fairing started life as modelling foam, which was glued to the bike and then carefully cut and sanded until it gained the shape of the factory XR89.  You can see that the air filters have clearance to the fairing (a minimum of 10mm), and the dry clutch from Nova is given a bulge to allow for the greater width at this point.  At this stage, the foam was given a skim of filler and many, many hours of final sanding to get it ready for creating the first mould.

The seat started off life as a race seat from a GSXR600 SRAD, and just like the fairing needed major rework to get it looking like the works XR89 unit.  As you can see from the first few pictures, despite the shape looking similar, the seat unit was far too high at the rear, dropped down too low at the bottom, had completely the wrong angle on the seat back, and didn’t have a face to allow the upper expansion chambers to exit.  Not much at all then...