Topic: shipping/storing a windjammer.

[Don R]

 Usually shipping is the deal breaker for buying or selling windjammers, I've got a few sitting around waiting for the 70's look to come back into vogue.
  Lowes sells a double layer cardboard wardrobe shipping box for $10-12 I'm thinking a Windjammer with the windshield removed might ship in one. The next trip I'll bring one home and check it out. It might be a shipping help for those rare guys wanting to buy/sell them. 32x24x24 and I think there's one slightly bigger.
 If nothing else, I might be able to store my installed in a dealership but never run dark blue one in a box instead of it getting scratched up.

 Any other ideas?

[Desert-SOHC]

The Windjammer that I just got came Greyhound freight for $42.00 from Arizona to socal and it took 1 day. 

[USMC5811]

Put them in truck/van/Uhaul and hit the swap meet circuit?


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[Don R]

Success! It would need a little internal reinforcing, the metal brace in the top is for hanging clothes. I'd leave it out. It cost $12 at Lowes in the closet aisle.  I think the bracket and windshield could be packed in there as well. When I turned this one over out fell a new hardware kit for mounting the lowers.

[Don R]

 Desert, was yours wrapped up or boxed?

[bill440cars]

Desert, was yours wrapped up or boxed?

            Never tried to ship or store a Windjammer, but I did buy an extra fairing for my '83 GPZ, awhile back and it was shipped in a large cardboard box similar to what you found at Lowe's. I may have to check that out and see if it would fit in the one you found at Lowe's or the next size up. I currently have the GPZ fairing and such, on a shelf, in a nice size shelf assy. Got some spare bits, for my GPZ, in case needed, for whatever reason. So, glad you started this Don. 

[Don R]

 That box uses a lot of shelf. W0W!

[bill440cars]

That box uses a lot of shelf. W0W!

           Yeah, pretty good size box alright. I gotta figure out something, to be more practical, in the way of storing that thing.

[Desert-SOHC]

Desert, was yours wrapped up or boxed?

Boxed

Fairing, lowers, windshield, and radio kit with a cassette player (no speakers) with average packing was about 48lbs.

[Don R]

 The weight is good to know thanks.

[RAFster122s]

You can get the high expansion foam and squirt it into a garbage bag, deep in bag and let that form around windjammer and box sides and ends.  It is pretty durable foam.  Would need a few cans.  Would require you to block it up to center it.  You can put foam inside the bags to take up space to require less expanding foam, but remember to put expanding foam on both sides of that material or have the foam block or sheet to the outside of box.

[Terry in Australia]

Well there you go Don, keep anything long enough and it'll come back into fashion, in the short time that I've been a member here I've seen so many members throwing perfectly good Windjammers in the rubbish I almost thought your post was a joke?

I still don't think I could bring myself to put one on any of my bikes, but I wouldn't mind one hanging from the rafters for a bit of garage art, sharing space with my Dunstall body kit, or Rickman and Egli fairings...........

[RAFster122s]

A Vesco Rabid Transit would be very appealing to me...most of the WindjammersI don't find appealing unless it is winter here or for a long distance trip, then the comfort for hour upon hour of riding great distances they have their place.  But, they are not attractive.
A early naked wing out fitted with a Vesco Rabid Transit and lowers could be quite nice and very attractive.  Not sure if later wings could be stripped of their Windjammers and replaced with a Vesco and look anywhere as good.

[Johnie]

Thanks for all that info...and I was going to toss mine out. That is the first thing I remove on these bike too. But like you said maybe these will come back too.

[bill440cars]

You can get the high expansion foam and squirt it into a garbage bag, deep in bag and let that form around windjammer and box sides and ends.  It is pretty durable foam.  Would need a few cans.  Would require you to block it up to center it.  You can put foam inside the bags to take up space to require less expanding foam, but remember to put expanding foam on both sides of that material or have the foam block or sheet to the outside of box.

   Now THAT is a pretty cool suggestion there. Never thought of that. 

[bill440cars]

     I can see where a fairing could add to comfort, on a long trip, but the ones I have seen, are pretty heavy and bulky looking. A decent windshield could give at least Some comfort, though I am sure, not as much as an actual fairing. My '80 CB750K had a Windjammer on it, when I got it from my Buddy (Who hadn't had it very long & decided it was more than he needed & let me trade him out of it. ). 

[Johnie]

I had one on my 1977 CB750K that I bought new. It was the thing to do for long trips which we did at that time when we were younger. Made driving in heavy rain not so bad.

[74cb750]

I have a CX500 SilverWing that came standard with a windjammer fairing. Don't like the looks of it though.

[ofreen]

19F on the way to work the other morning. The Windjammer SS is a thing of beauty.

[bill440cars]

19F on the way to work the other morning. The Windjammer SS is a thing of beauty.

           I can imagine that. 

[Johnie]

You could even store cold beer and ice in them and they had drain holes too.

[RAFster122s]

Find a Vesco Rabid Transit fairing for your CX or other style you like 74cb750...must warn you that you will then want to change the panniers.

[70CB750]

Find a Vesco Rabid Transit fairing for your CX or other style you like 74cb750...must warn you that you will then want to change the panniers.

There was one for sale in NYC not that long ago.  $450 with $100 shipping.  It sold.

[bill440cars]

You could even store cold beer and ice in them and they had drain holes too.

           LOL, Convenient. 

[Don R]

 I recently bought 6 junky cb750's. Later the seller needed to relieve himself of a gl1000 too and he practically gave it to me. It was parked in an attached garage for 20 years.  It has a windjammer with lowers and it's the nuts.  I removed the cracked Vetter saddlebags and trunk but am working on a trade to get a better set of bags that I can bolt my paint matched  doors to.
 There are now 6 windjammers in my garage, two aren't so nice, they may get cut up since you can't give them away.