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Once you ride a motorcycle with a fairing, it's hard to go back. Just sayin'... 
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I have ridden bikes with fairings on them and don't understand how anyone could like that!
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Once you ride a motorcycle with a fairing, it's hard to go back. Just sayin'...
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I have ridden bikes with fairings on them and don't understand how anyone could like that!
I kind of agree with you. Having just come back from a bagger (2010 Road Glide Custom), to my Speedmaster, while there are pluses to having a fairing, I had a tough time trying to combat the buffeting that comes with the fairings. It can be resolved, but it often takes a lot of trial and error (and $$$) with shields, lowers, and other sundry wind deflectors. It's been nice just having clean air, although I may get a windshield for when it rains around here.
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I like your set up!
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I have ridden bikes with fairings on them and don't understand how anyone could like that!
I kind of agree with you. Having just come back from a bagger (2010 Road Glide Custom), to my Speedmaster, while there are pluses to having a fairing, I had a tough time trying to combat the buffeting that comes with the fairings. It can be resolved, but it often takes a lot of trial and error (and $$$) with shields, lowers, and other sundry wind deflectors. It's been nice just having clean air, although I may get a windshield for when it rains around here.
you can get buffeting with any thing...fairing,windshields and even helmets...so saying you only get with a fairing 
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I have ridden bikes with fairings on them and don't understand how anyone could like that!
I kind of agree with you. Having just come back from a bagger (2010 Road Glide Custom), to my Speedmaster, while there are pluses to having a fairing, I had a tough time trying to combat the buffeting that comes with the fairings. It can be resolved, but it often takes a lot of trial and error (and $$$) with shields, lowers, and other sundry wind deflectors. It's been nice just having clean air, although I may get a windshield for when it rains around here.
you can get buffeting with any thing...fairing,windshields and even helmets...so saying you only get with a fairing
Ed
Agree with you Ed - didn't mean to imply that buffeting can come only from fairings. But the RG was a tough nut to tame as far as that was concerned.
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Got to get my pic up here later, but i really like riding without the shield but only in the city and short rides, otherwise on the highway i just get tired of hanging on so darn much half the time, the noise, rain, rocks, bugs and what have you....maybe i am just getting soft LOL
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
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That two tone fairing on the America above does look nice!
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Thought I'd throw in a version of my Bonneville "Bagger"   [/URL][/image]
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Once upon a time mine was also a bagger... 
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That's got to be the largest top box I have ever seen Bengt? 
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Haha, yeah, it was pretty big from that angle LOL! It is an old box, and I put in quite a number of hours fixing it. Here's a shot from the side: 
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something."
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Thought I'd throw in a version of my Bonneville "Bagger"
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That is a very pretty machine. I do like a silver motorcycle and that is the perfect shade of silver. 
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I had a bagger once, glad the bag didn't come off her head.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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I guess it depends on how you use the bike. I regularly go 500+ miles a day and a windshield makes that a LOT more pleasant. I often take the bike rather than the car to work and having storage space makes that practical. If I want to strip it down for a more local ride it takes about five minutes. Having those options is why I usually put more miles on the BA each year than the car, even living in Iowa.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I had a bagger once, glad the bag didn't come off her head.
05 Speedmaster,Reverse Cone Shortys,Thunderbike AIR Kit,K&N Air Filter,Snorkel Removed,Dynojet Stage 1 Kit(126 main),Needle-Clip 1 From Bottom,42 Pilot,NGK Iridium Plugs,Progressive Springs,Hagon 2810's,Barnett Green Springs,TTP Safe-Start,MOSFET R/R
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I had a bagger once, glad the bag didn't come off her head.
she was too 
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This is my baby bagger This is its curent with mini apes  and a untested stereo  This was a year ago with drag bars 
Life need a little Triumph!
2008 Triumph Speedmaster, Single baffle drag pipes, lots of black powder coatin,K&N pods, AI removed, TBS needles and a procom cdi.
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Not sure I am crazy about making my BA a bagger but I do like them... my 76 KZ900A4 when it was a bagger: 
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My bike just morphed into a bagger. 
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Looking good Keith!
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very nice Keith.. you did a great job.. flows very well.. Ed
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