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Originally Posted by kkqewl
I installed the Nise rack earlier this summer and was also waitiing on the fairing , got tired of waiting and decided to make my own.
Amazing what you can do with a little patience and the right tools.
I was loking to use aluminium for this but all options I found were very costly and then there was the added work of cutting and shaping metal etc.
I decided to use a nice piece of solid Mahagony 1/2 inch thick and 4 inches wide which was just the right size and much easier to work using a router.
This hardwood ended up being stiffer and lighter than the equivalent 1/4 inch aluminium option. Sprayed it with bedliner and has held up nicely for the past 5 months.
The fairing also totaly eliminated a slight wind noise I had at around 50 to 60 MPH
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That looks very elegant, nice job.
I made a fairing from 1/4 aluminum. It took a lot of fine tuning to get the shape just right to follow the roof curves. Testing it at highway speeds (80+) in windy conditions it would flex and resonate so I had to add a rubber bumper support at the midpoint between fairing and crossbar. It works well to cut the wind noise.
As I recall, the designer
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Eitek1
had a lot of complications over the last year or so with job, house moving, etc and has been very busy. Haven’t heard from him in quite a while. This rack project probably is a low priority for him right now.