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Is this a Heinrich fairing?
Is this a Heinrich fairing?
- Flx48
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Re: Is this a Heinrich fairing?
Though it may be for a /5; the shape is a bit different from the Heinrich for the Earles fork era.
(and a side note here- I wouldn't mind at all if we went back to calling the Earles era the /4, as many of us did when the /5 came out; postwar we had the /2, /3, Earles, /5, /6, /7, etc, just sayin')
Anyway, the alloy edging around the high outside corners, the handlebar and headlight mounts, and 7" headlight hole are all the same as the Heinrich for the Earles bike.
The Earles Heinrichs had serial numbers stamped in the center of the windshield mount on the rider's side of fairing, though they might have deleted that when they got to the /5.
Here's a couple of pics of Earles era Heinrichs I use for cold riding, though its been a while since I had the urge for a cold ride.
(sorry about pic quality, too much of a hurry..)
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George
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Re: Is this a Heinrich fairing?
There is a /5 with a Heinrich fairing on this page:
http://5united.org/history/fairings/
Another view of a /2 Heinrich fairing:
https://forum.boxerworks.com/viewtopic.php?t=10469
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Re: Is this a Heinrich fairing?
Thanks for the info.schrader7032 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 6:06 pm
There is a /5 with a Heinrich fairing on this page:
http://5united.org/history/fairings/
It looks like the red fairing on that page.
I don't see any numbers stamped on it.
For /5 is possible (I bought the R69S with this fairing on it in the 1980s) although I wonder if they still were from aluminum by that time.
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Re: Is this a Heinrich fairing?
Here's a later one with a cut down windshield, out of fiberglass.
Heinrich? Dunno, it has no markings on it.
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Re: Is this a Heinrich fairing?
Back when the /5 was introduced, the bench racing consisted of a lot of speculation about the merits and faults of the new bikes, and also pondering how the postwar designations went from /2, to /3, jumped over the Earles, to the new /5.When were the Earles fork bikes called /4s?
And so we wondered why didn't the Earles run have a slash number, and decided the factory had implied a /4 by designating the new model a /5.
But when I'd ask for /4 parts at the parts counter, all I got was a reaction similar to yours!
My memory doesn't recall having to ask for Earles bike parts as /2 till years later, when dealers started stocking a few Earles era parts again, but that could be my memory.
So the /4 never got its chance; oh well!
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