Our Farkle Shelf is specifically designed to fit the radius of a Honda GL1800 Windbender Base Shield or stock windshield. Category: MotorBike Products Tag: Farkle Fingers E-01-01. Farkle Shelves can be shipped pre-installed or you can order a Windbender with pre-drilled mounting holes. Just pull the Farkle Fingers over the tips of your gloves and youll be able to use any. Your windshield does not have to be removed for installation. Heavier gadgets mounted beyond the back edge of the shelf can act as a lever and cause the shelf and windshield to bounce on rough roads.įarkle Shelf kits ship complete with stainless mounting hardware, rubber cushions to protect your windshield, and easy to follow instructions. The mini is a perfect place for your GPS, radar detector and other small items.Ī Farkle Shelf is "bounce free" when it and gadgets are mounted properly. The Farkle Shelf Mini is just as deep, but only 12" wide on the rider side. For riders with fewer farkles we make the “Mini”.
Most popular with Long Distance and Touring Riders, our full size Farkle Shelf is almost 23" wide and over 6" deep. We only offer one size for the Gen 6 Wing. Two sizes are currently offered for the Gen 5 GL1800 Goldwing. Twelve gauge powder-coated steel makes for easy drilling and will give you a lifetime of service. A two-plane mounting system virtually eliminates bounce. To be farkled is sometimes used as a computing term, meaning “very messed up.Farkle shelves provides a generously sized, solid platform to mount your gadgets where you need them.
A farkle can be a red-headed person with pale skin and freckles. It may also refer to a fart that is trapped by clothing and “travels” between the legs to be emitted from beneath the genitals. A farkle can be a combination of fart and chuckle, an involuntary fart caused by laughter. As such, people will occasionally use it as a nonsense word for “tinker” or “putz.” The word also inspired some lesser-known slang meanings. įinally, many consider farkle a funny-sounding word with a diminutive sound that evokes a few taboo words ( fark, fuck). These farkles should not be confused with Farkle Minkus (Corey Fogelmanis), a character on Girl Meets World (2014–17) and the son of Stuart Minkus, who appeared on the show’s predecessor Boy Meets World (1993–2000). Adding such gear to one’s bike is called farkling up.
In colloquial speech and online forums, motorcycle riders and enthusiasts use farkle for the various gear they buy in stores and online, including lights, mounted seat additions, and GPS systems. Avid players sometimes use farkle as a verb (“let’s farkle!”) and scoring zero points on a turn is known as farkling. Farkle is played by the board-gaming community (often younger players in clubs or groups) and by older players who enjoy its simplicity. Official sets are mass-produced, but a game can also be improvised using nothing but six dice. It is known by many different names, including Wimp Out!, Hot Dice, Zilch, Zonk, among others. The backronym was used in an entry in the online Kawasaki Concours Owners Group forum, found in 1989.įarkle is still played today, with multiple versions available. One says it was created by a member of the Honda ST1100 user group, another as an early term for the multiple tail lights that Honda Goldwing riders used in the late 1980–90s that would “flash and sparkle” (thus farkle). There are several proposed origins of this use of the word farkle. Unlike simple decorations, farkles are so-named because they add a dash of glamour to the motorcycle while still remaining useful to the rider. In 1996, an American couple created a six-dice system, copyrighted the scoring system, and trademarked the name “Farkel.” Originally selling homemade game sets, the game eventually became commercially successful, and today is owned by Legendary Games, Inc.Īs a motorcycle accessory, a farkle is named after the combination of “function” and “sparkle.” It has also been interpreted as a backronym of Fancy Accessory, Really Kool, Likely Expensive. However, there are some popular theories, including the 15th-century invention of the game by Sir Albert Farkle in Iceland, or a Texan origin theory based on dice carved out of “Farkleberries.” It is also thought that as a traditional dice game, Farkle was named for an expletive or sound one might make during play.įarkle has been trademarked numerous times beginning in the 1980s. The origins of Farkle are obscure, though various dice-based games reach back into antiquity. The first player to accumulate more than 10,000 points, as tallied by a designated score keeper, is then challenged in a final round if nobody beats their score, they are the winner. For instance, rolling three 5s earns you 500 points while a straight of 1–6 lands you 1,500. During gameplay, players roll the dice and score points based on the resulting dice combinations. Farkle is played with six dice and no maximum number of players.