Yeah Lloyd - but perpel!!
And yeah I'm back from Edinburgh early, had to cancel my trip to the Raptor Centre, I was supposed to be having a day flying birds of prey, but the weather is just too shite! Be later in the year now.
Julian, I just registered to open a Yahoo photo album then I transfer any shots I want in there from my hard drive. If I want them to come upon here I just copy and paste the page from Yahoo.
Jason, If you go to a local B&Q Whorehouse you'll find (somewhere in there, in ours it's aisle 17) a section with loads of different types of metal mesh.
You'll obviously have to take the whole front nose and headight mount off the bike. Once the screws are out there's a plug on the left hand side as you look from front, just unplug it and the whole caboodle comes away. Then you need to get it on a bench and make sure all the little inserts (little brass ferrules which are threaded inside) where the screws fasten to hold the headlight unit and the back of the oil cooler intake are all still fixed in the holes. Sometimes they vibrate loose and fall out so they're not actually holding any thing in. Just for reference if there are any strange vibrating noises coming from behind the fairing, it's a fair bet that these inserts have fallen out. If there are any loose ones you'll have to Araldite them back in.
After you've done all that, make a cardboard template to the shape of the grill you're about to make. The finished grille is going to be in one piece & clamp between the black frame behind the oil cooler intakes and the main nose section. (wish I could draw a diagram and post it on here....maybe I can if you can't follow this). on one side you'll have to cut a litte bit of relief into the grill to go around the bottom of the headlight unit. It's really quite an easy job, just a bit difficult to explain. They only reason I did all this is because I've had a few stones hit the oil cooler - not good.
See if these photos help!
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ridgew ... m=ea55.jpg
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ridgew ... m=3954.jpg
The last shot shows the position of one of the headight unit mounting screws. The threaded brass ferrules that the screws go into are the ones that sometime vibrate loose.
Hope that helps a bit, if not let me know and I'll try to explain it better
Dave.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
or black if you want to be soooo subtle that no-one knows you've modified it.
I'm off to Edinburgh for a couple of days now, I'll be having words when I get get back......anodised purple indeed -sigh 
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