Mesh Hoods
I've built several for the King Kat style sleds. Flat aluminum stock and two small pot riverts in each joint, 2nd and 3rd hoods I used small short HUCK pop rivets @ each joint, they will hold up the best. Did mine in Black PET SCREEN, so after frame was done juist wiped it down with acetone and painted it flat black. Then no aluminum shows. Any rivets that you want to hide after fabric is installed, just hit it with Gloss Black Fast drying spray paint, you'll never see it.
I've put the screen on with contact cement and clothes pins, messy but works. I've pot riveted it, more time consuming and hard to keep out all the wrinkles, but cleaner and less mess. The guys that make some of these for a living use 3M double back tape, I bought the tape but haven't built another hood to try that out. did some side vents for my first M7 where I built an Aluminum frame, tape worked ok, clean..........no mess.
I've had them without windshields, in the long haul they suck. Put on windshield and new sleds need lights and instrument pods. Some rides back at dark with no light and cold wet hands, mesh hood with air going right
throught it and no windshiled........just 2nd class situation.
Some cold crisp days with lots of air going through expect your mesh hood sled to be not quite the same, factory sets them up to have warm air under there. Christmas vacation @ Seely Lake for a week of riding, cold dry snow, coming off the hill after dark and some nites rides at Zero in fresh fine grained snow, found it best to just run stock hood. Like mesh underwear, its a little warmer weather thing. Blistering hot Feb afternoons on long climbs when the snow sets up, mesh hoods are a good deal.