avramd

Hello,

Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the - for lack of a better word - "cheek" vents on our front fairings are for? (see pic)

As far as I can tell, what they direct air to is - our knees. It seems to me that this is functionally no different from if there was simply empty space there - i.e. all they do vs. if they were not there is "look cool." Which I think they do very well, FWIW.

The reason I ask is I'm running some auxiliary wiring (headlamp relay, gps & valentine power) and mounting a couple PowerLet sockets, those ducts seem to be an ideal location for both functions. I just want to double-check that I'm not doing something galactically stupid before I do it.

(note: image is deliberately over-exposed to highlight the opening)

8541Hawk

Go right ahead as they are just cosmetic. I removed mine about 11yrs ago now as the rattled. I just removed them and left the openings in the fairing alone and saw no difference at all.

mikstr

guess I'll be ditching mine then, another slight (but cumulative) weight saving.....

autoteach

I mounted my voltage regulator/rectifier on an aluminum plate up there. Seems to work well at keeping it cool.