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I need some images of mounted windscreens on stock (bars, risers and lights)Speedmasters.
I am working with a manufacturer to design a new screen for the Speedy, that will fit all current years and is different than what is currently available. It will also fit the Americas, but since I have a Speedmaster, that's what I'm currently looking for.
Also, if you guys have any comments on what you would like to see in a screen let me know and I'll take it under consideration.
Thanks for your help.
Clay
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The smaller factory screens are excellent for the sport crowd. However, the Triumph Roadster seems to be aimed at touring, and it fails miserably. What's really needed in this segment is a windshield/lowers system. See my comments here: http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...ge=0#Post360469
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The smaller factory screens are excellent for the sport crowd. However, the Triumph Roadster seems to be aimed at touring, and it fails miserably. What's really needed in this segment is a windshield/lowers system. See my comments here:
http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...ge=0#Post360469
Also the turn signals are moved on those pictures. I can possibly get a couple versions made with and without turn signal cutouts.
If I understand you, none of the roadster style screens are any good without lowers?
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Are you making just the screen or hardware for it too?
If you're going to offer a whole package then a quick release would be ideal.
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Are you making just the screen or hardware for it too?
If you're going to offer a whole package then a quick release would be ideal.
This will be a screen and brackets. This is a small, quality manufacturer, so currently quick release won't be an option I don't think, but I will pass this on as well.
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The smaller factory screens are excellent for the sport crowd. However, the Triumph Roadster seems to be aimed at touring, and it fails miserably. What's really needed in this segment is a windshield/lowers system. See my comments here:
http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...ge=0#Post360469
Also the turn signals are moved on those pictures. I can possibly get a couple versions made with and without turn signal cutouts. If I understand you, none of the roadster style screens are any good without lowers?
Clay
Clay, just to clarify, the cutouts in the stock Roadster are for accessory running lights, not turn signals. Anyone who doesn't use the factory running lights has to put up with those big cutaways.
I think most windshields without lowers do a poor job of eliminating buffeting. The Roadster is particularly bad, due in part to its height (only 16" from the headlight cutout to the top). The need to eliminate buffeting and face wind depends a lot on how the rider uses the bike. A rider who wears a full-face helmet or who doesn't ride when the temps fall below 40°F might not care. For my part, nearly all my bikes have had fairings, and none has presented the problems I've had with the Roadster. Some mornings when I leave the house, the cold wind across my eyes causes tearing so bad I nearly have to pull over and stop. There's gotta be a better way to get this done. It's not rocket science.
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Also the turn signals are moved on those pictures. I can possibly get a couple versions made with and without turn signal cutouts. If I understand you, none of the roadster style screens are any good without lowers?
Clay
Clay, just to clarify, the cutouts in the stock Roadster are for accessory running lights, not turn signals. Anyone who doesn't use the factory running lights has to put up with those big cutaways.
I think most windshields without lowers do a poor job of eliminating buffeting. The Roadster is particularly bad, due in part to its height (only 16" from the headlight cutout to the top). The need to eliminate buffeting and face wind depends a lot on how the rider uses the bike. A rider who wears a full-face helmet or who doesn't ride when the temps fall below 40°F might not care. For my part, nearly all my bikes have had fairings, and none has presented the problems I've had with the Roadster. Some mornings when I leave the house, the cold wind across my eyes causes tearing so bad I nearly have to pull over and stop. There's gotta be a better way to get this done. It's not rocket science.
The first version won't have the light bar cutouts.
It's not rocket science, wait, it is aerodynamics. This guy has been doing this a long time and is VERY knowledgeable.
I will pass this along to him about the lowers so we can incorporate a combination.
Once I get this all worked out, I'll post the company and the man in charge. I don't want you guys to distract him from MY project!
He doesn't advertise outside of his website at all, but his company is known at the salt flats.
Clay
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The smaller factory screens are excellent for the sport crowd. However, the Triumph Roadster seems to be aimed at touring, and it fails miserably. What's really needed in this segment is a windshield/lowers system. See my comments here:
http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...ge=0#Post360469
Also the turn signals are moved on those pictures. I can possibly get a couple versions made with and without turn signal cutouts. If I understand you, none of the roadster style screens are any good without lowers?
Clay
Clay, just to clarify, the cutouts in the stock Roadster are for accessory running lights, not turn signals. Anyone who doesn't use the factory running lights has to put up with those big cutaways.
I think most windshields without lowers do a poor job of eliminating buffeting. The Roadster is particularly bad, due in part to its height (only 16" from the headlight cutout to the top). The need to eliminate buffeting and face wind depends a lot on how the rider uses the bike. A rider who wears a full-face helmet or who doesn't ride when the temps fall below 40°F might not care. For my part, nearly all my bikes have had fairings, and none has presented the problems I've had with the Roadster. Some mornings when I leave the house, the cold wind across my eyes causes tearing so bad I nearly have to pull over and stop. There's gotta be a better way to get this done. It's not rocket science.
Lazy, could you post some pictures of you bike with the lowers from different angles. I'm sure everyone would get some ideas, or you could PM them. I'd like some dimensional info as well.
I will have these added to my bike when I get this done and then it will be an option for the screen.
Clay
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