As tall as the Nimbus is, it will never be the fastest bike around, but I wanted to make it more aerodynamic, and I'm planning on making a bodysock for it for winter riding. The first step in improving its aerodynamics was the used Windwrap fairing I picked up last month. Next, here's the tailbox I finished for it, today. It's fabric covered coroplast. (Does that handlebar look familiar, Nelson?)
 

 
I had bought a closeout tailsock from Terracycle, to use in the summer, and for a pattern for the back half of the bodysock I plan on making. I decided to make the tailbox to go under the tailsock (and later, the bodysock), rather than making a frame for that. Here's the tailsock over the tailbox.
 

 
Just for a "before and after" comparison, here's the bike the day I brought it home last year.
 

 

Quote from Kwijybow on Aug 13^th, 2007, 9:03pm:

 
The frame was just sandblasted and dipped in a black oxide tank at work. Powder coating would have been nice, but this is a budget bike all the way.
 
When I bought the used fairing, its mount was for a Rans riser, and my choppers bars were far too wide for the fairing anyway, so I went to the extra set of bars from the Stratus.