Vetter Fairings

I am thinking about buying a bike that has a Vetter fairing. I was wondering how difficult it was to return the bike back to stock. Say I was thinking about turning it into a "naked" bike. Anyone have an idea on how hard that might be?

Threadjack: No clue how difficult, but I met the man a few years ago through my old job, pretty cool guy.

Would imagine it's not too hard though.

I've read enough that taking off the fairing itself isnt the problem. I am worried about getting the wiring dealt with for new signals and lights

But yeah, cool dude. Taught at my university for a brief while in the 60s or 70s and was based 20 minutes away in Rantoul, IL

Depends on who installed it. Many people remove the whole stock head light bucket and ears, others will just remove bezel take out the bulb and put the bezel back.

Usually there isn't room for the headlight bucket so it gets pulled. Usually the ears are folded in and tied together with the wiring but they may be gone. Depending on how old the Vetter fairing is it might use a bucket that can be fitted into the stock ears, though they are almost guaranteed to not have the same size bolts and spacers and such so you may have to get creative.

unless it is a very old Vetter with the stock signal stalks on L brackets underneath than you will need to find some of them too. Good news is that in most cases if the bike is old enough to use a Vetter than the odds are good the lights all hook up with standard bullet connectors so a set from nearly anything will work.

I've had a couple of them. On my bikes (1970s Suzukis) the headlight shell remained in place but the lamp was taken out and transferred to the fairing. A flexible plastic cover fit into the original headlight shell to replace the light and cover it up to keep water out.

There's a wiring harness that plugs into the stock wiring on the bike at one end and into a socket on the fairing at the other end. They had one Windjammer model called the Vindicator that reused the stock turn signals, the Windjammer II/III/IV had built in turn signals so you'll have to source replacements. Unless a previous owner hacked it up, you should be able to simply reconnect the bike wiring harness to a stock headlight and turn signals.

The fairing itself has a mounting bracket that fastens on to the bike's frame with U-bolts, and the fairing mounts to it with four bolts. It only takes a few minutes to remove it from the bike.

I've always thought it was too bad that Vetter fairings went out of style, since they worked really well.

I have one sitting in my garage if anyone desires