Japanese designer Akira.O released this motorcycle in 1:12 scale.
Finished model size: Length 200 mm / Width 50 mm / Height 90 mm.
Compact size for display on a bookshelf, desk, or in a small space in the house.
The dustbin fairings covered almost the entire front wheel, engine and gas tank of a road-racing motorcycle, providing low-drag aerodynamic streamlining at high speeds on road racing tracks. While they did provide considerably better aerodynamic efficiency, they were more susceptible to the effects of crosswinds than standard fairings which did not cover the front wheel and therefore had much less surface area than the dustbin style fairing.
While the effects of crosswinds on the dustbin-style fairings were a major concern, the far more dangerous issue involved the very close proximity of the front of the fairing with the front wheel, front suspension and steering components of the motorcycles. Even the best designed and fitted dustbin fairings had an adverse effect on the side-to-side - or lock-to-lock - steering ratio, as well as limiting the shock-absorbing travel of the front fork suspension system. Even slight damage or misalignment of a dustbin fairing could cause it to contact the front wheel and/or front suspension of the motorcycle, with serious results.
The more open types of fairings that replaced the dustbin style, and are still used today, have none of these issues, because the rules established by the FIM - the international motorcycle racing rules-making body - that banned the dustbin fairings in 1958, also stipulated that no part of the front wheel can be covered by the fairing, and the front-most part of the fairing cannot extend ahead of the front axle line. These changes effectively forbade anything that even resembled the dustbin style.
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