faring removal, headlight install, dash mount

The naked Motus isn't the first one. The factory built a supercharged naked, Fuller Motus built a more 'touched' naked, and the factory had built a naked prototype to gauge interest. Not sure if there are more out there, but the likelihood of more naked Motus' with only 200 total bikes built seems small.

 Start at the start...

• Remove farings, latch clips, faring stays
• Remove dashboard and headlight surrounds
• Remove headlight and windshield assembly. This was incredibly easy as the entire assembly is held to the head tube by two bolts and a stout mount. Very compact and intelligent design.
• Remove Helibar adjustable handlebars. These are very comfortable for long distance riding, but are far too 'clunky' for the naked I am going after.
• Remove intake 'snorkels' that were feeding air from around the headlight to both K&N air filters. 

Fit, re-fit, and re-fit 'low bar kit until the hose and cable routing is what I need. Over, under, back over, re-feed, re-route...
OCD is a bitch.

This is a Rizoma bar kit that the factory sold for a more 'sporty' ride. It's a bit low for me on long rides, but this bike isn't going to be that kind of bike. It looks good.

 Headlight fitted. This required 53mm fork tube brackets that clamp directly to the Ohlins forks. A standard 7" generic headlight is used which takes your eyes away from the 'busy' triple trees that are around the frame head tube.

The mass of equipment, cables, and mounts is only going to get more cluttered as shown below.

 I was finally able to get the bike lift cleared of another project to work around the bike a bit easier. Final hose, cable, and wiring routing is found.

 A few hit and misses of cardboard cutouts and the final design comes forward.

53mm fork clamps used for steering dampers were re-purposed for a dashboard mount. One on each fork.

A hand built aluminum plate connects the left and right fork clamp with a few screws. 

The factory dash display that has a lot of data is retained. The display is made by Murphy and is used for industrial interfaces. It is also NEMA 4X rated... basically waterproof.

the display has many mounting options. I selected the gimbal mount as it is a direct bolt-on for Ram-Mount branded products.

Both the display and Ram-Mounts are US made. Stainless hardware to be fitted.

Ram-Mount base and short arm on fabricated plate. These are very useful for nearly unlimited position options.

Everything fits together and is fairly hidden from view.

The original Powerlet is retained that can be used to charge a phone or power a GPS. Both are unlikely on this bike.

Final routing of the cables, hoses, and wires comes together.








Powder coat was applied to the fabricated bracket and fork clamps.

Having a PC gun and oven in your garage is very handy and not very expensive.

Stainless hardware throughout.

The backside of the display is...industrial ugly. A different kind of ugly.

A 3-D printed display skirt was designed by a die maker friend. Design body dies by day, prototype one-off parts by night.

More on this part later, but it will be used to hide the connector backs of the display.