SleepyC
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All you guys having issues with buffeting, try a lip on your wind screen.
I had a Puig touring screen and it was "OK" but I got tossed around some. So I added an Ebay Special Lip and BAM... calm and cool from 35 - 100 mph...
Then I got a bug in my butt about mounting my GPS at eye level. Did research and came across the V-Stream wind screens. They come with a cage to mount your GPS and mount the wind screen. So I removed the Puig sold it (painfully as it worked so well) and mounted the V-stream touring screen.
On the first ride I was sick. The buffeting was so bad it made my bike almost un-ridable. I felt like a schmuck for selling the Puig/w lip that worked so well.
So I bit the bullet and purchased the X-creen lip to add to my V-stream.
I mounted it last night (scary drilling holes and all) and it came out great. More importantly after two quick tool-less adjustments on the way to work today, I was back in the pocket. from 35 - 100 no buffeting... smooth sailing...
I think naked windscreens with a flat top cause the air to roll off the top edge causing the buffeting many feel. The added lip causes the air to compress and shoot out the top in a jet stream and if you angle it properly blast right over the top of your helmet. You can literally put your hand up and feel the blast that is aimed 1" over my head...
Might not work for all situations but for me, two completely different wind screens were "fixed" with a proper lip being added!
I had a Puig touring screen and it was "OK" but I got tossed around some. So I added an Ebay Special Lip and BAM... calm and cool from 35 - 100 mph...
Then I got a bug in my butt about mounting my GPS at eye level. Did research and came across the V-Stream wind screens. They come with a cage to mount your GPS and mount the wind screen. So I removed the Puig sold it (painfully as it worked so well) and mounted the V-stream touring screen.
On the first ride I was sick. The buffeting was so bad it made my bike almost un-ridable. I felt like a schmuck for selling the Puig/w lip that worked so well.
So I bit the bullet and purchased the X-creen lip to add to my V-stream.
I mounted it last night (scary drilling holes and all) and it came out great. More importantly after two quick tool-less adjustments on the way to work today, I was back in the pocket. from 35 - 100 no buffeting... smooth sailing...
I think naked windscreens with a flat top cause the air to roll off the top edge causing the buffeting many feel. The added lip causes the air to compress and shoot out the top in a jet stream and if you angle it properly blast right over the top of your helmet. You can literally put your hand up and feel the blast that is aimed 1" over my head...
Might not work for all situations but for me, two completely different wind screens were "fixed" with a proper lip being added!
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