fairing mount

Ye Olde Nexte Steppe is to work out how to mount the fairing. Mine get mounted on rubber exhaust bobbins from Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis's Mini, which annoyingly have 5/16UNF thread or something, so when you grope about on the workshop floor for an 8mm metric nut it doesn't fit. Anyway the rubber bobbins allow things to wobble about and generally are an organic sort of thing and I recommend them, which recommendation I naturally assume everyone in the Entire World will now defer to, according me appropriate honours.

Mr Knight is troubled by the business of fixing something to an irreplaceable Burrows Ratracer which lacks natural mounting points and is made of a slippery bit of round stuff that you can't weld to. (To which you can't weld. Shut up, pedant.)

I've now got the top mounts completed and the actual spine complete. (The spine is 8mm corriboard which he reports is very stiff.) The mounts are bolted to the corriboard and then the whole assembly zip tied to the frame; there is a layer of the apple crate foam twixt frame and mount, they seem secure although a bottom mount down near the seat will be a must as you suggested. (See? See? at every stage the boy comes grovelling to me on bended kn. for advice admonishment suggestions sagacity and experience. )

And a side view:

Now starting to work on the ribs which should progress reasonably quickly. I'll make them all in cardboard first before I cut any more of the 8mm corriboard which is expensive.