Question for Madstad owners

[CB4ME]

Does anyone using a Madstad windscreen also have hand guards on their bike? I appear to have a serious clearance issue:

 

[bendobe]

I'm in the process of trying to return the one I bought because of the same issue. I needed at least another inch on each side and that was with the bars set back on Rox Risers.

Edit - guards I have are Barkbusters Storms

 

[goodvibes]

No problems at all on my XDE model with the sport windscreen. Maybe it's narrower. Don't have a clutch lever, though.

 

[goodvibes]

and I'm running Barkbusters.

 

[Banjoferg]

I used to have interference. Added Rox Risers and have been good since.

 

[anglachel]

I'm in the process of trying to return the one I bought because of the same issue. I needed at least another inch on each side and that was with the bars set back on Rox Risers.

Edit - guards I have are Barkbusters Storms

I have barkbuster storms, and the madstad just barely touches the hand guards at full lock... some rox risers should fix that for me. Adjusting the handlebars back a bit more might have fixed it, but then I'd not be able to get the frunk open with the bars at full lock, and it would have been a touch uncomfortable.

I feel like I read elsewhere that some people had no clearance issues with the same setup.


I think the takeaway here is that "it depends." Which is a shaky answer for some one looking to spend a couple hundred dollars on a madstad.

For the record I have a 22" madstad, and I gather from the forums here they've changed the screen shape a few times, as well as added winglets, so what is true of one madstad might not be true of another purchased at a different time... would be nice if they had some sort of versioning system in place.

 

[bendobe]

The change of shape was my problem. On the website I ordered the SD-Sport model that is the smallest on the bottom. The model I received was the Adventure which is the new shape for the NC. It appears to be wider on the bottom than the SD-Sport is. If I was running the stock bike the Adventure would probably have been a pleasant surprise, in my case it's just a return that I need to deal with.

 

[QuaXum]

Madstad with rox 2" risers and bark busters. No clearance issues.

Didn't expect that with the screen protruding out so much, it will still hit the levers.

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