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Message started by Reelthing on 03/31/05 at 22:41:49

Title: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by Reelthing on 03/31/05 at 22:41:49

This was my first full month (except for a couple days) of savage cOmute. The round trip is right on 80 miles and runs some where between 1 and 1.5 hours each way. I think I've found the last (for now) oil leak but that will be another post - very interesting - anyway - this 1995 savage that followed me home in feb has a Memphis Shades wind screen and above 50 for sure above 60 mph, even just for 10 minutes, makes my neck sore from the helment buffeting. Well, I was standing around the other day talking to a bud that rides an at least 30 year old "full dress" HD he calls it, and I said something about this wind buffeting at 60+ and he looked at the savage and looked at me and looked at the savage and says well your just a dumba$$. Well I've known this guy for at least 20 years and we've been all over the southern parts fishing together - in Costa Rica after sailfish with flyrods at least ten times, he flys ultralights and I've wrenched the d@mn 2-stroke rotax that keeps him the air- what you mean a dumba$$? Well, he says, you see all the adjustments on the mounts? You can either use them to look cool by getting the windscreen close to the head light and raked back like yours or you use them to tune the windscreen and send the airstream over your head instead of into it, if you would push the windscreen up and tilt forward at bit it will toss the air above your helment - got it? Well, I spent several hours today doing the windscreen tune'n - I'm shocked - the first couple of trys - not much different - but then ......... its about an inch or so above the headlight, pushed forward about even with the glass, and tilted a bit forward - it's gone - I mean none - helment buffet at all - or just very slight - at 70!

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by bobo383 on 04/01/05 at 04:41:07

That's good to know. I got zero wind problems with my sportbike, but alot with the Savage. I'll have to try the windscreen. Thanks.

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by sluggo on 04/01/05 at 04:49:53

with the exception of max's bagger, most of the windscreens i've seen mounted have ended up being appearance mods rather than performance mods.

it does take some time and basic aerodynamic knowledge to set it up properly.

maybe someone would like to work something up for the technical section.

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by Savage_Rob on 04/01/05 at 10:41:44

Mine seems to work pretty well the way it is but it may be worth tinkering with at some point. However, I'm thinking of switching mine out to the flyscreen for the summer. I will say that I have noticed a definite improvement in head buffeting and neck stress since I got my Scorpion Exo helmet. I was wearing an HJC AC-3 (3/4 helmet) with a full face shield on it and never thought there'd be any noticeable difference but I can feel the change. Adjusting the windshield could possibly eliminate any difference and make it a moot point though, I guess.

The only thing I don't like about the full-face helmet so far is that I now have to tip my head forward slightly to see the speedo.

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by Ed_L. on 04/01/05 at 13:41:39

Thanks for the tip, I'll try adjusting the National Cycle windscreen on my '02 to cutdown on the buffeting. This means I'll need to go out, drive around for a while, adjust the windscreen and do it all over again till I like it. ;D. My life just got good, have a reason to ride. Yippie
Ride Safe

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by slopoke on 04/01/05 at 14:08:04

How about the short Savage windscreen??? Can that one be adjusted, too??? I'll have to look at mine more closely because I have noticed the wind and just thought it was to be expected.

Thanks for the tip.

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by dadorfman on 04/01/05 at 14:26:43

The bike is not a Savage, but the principle is the same:

http://www.surfmaine.com/rebel/windscreens.html

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by dssaak on 04/01/05 at 17:00:05

Hey, dadorfman, your line up looks like mine

'02 Savage
'86 Rebel 250
'87 Rebel 450
'03 Savage (the wife has to have at least one)

dk

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by dadorfman on 04/01/05 at 18:40:32

Great minds think alike.

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by Patty on 04/02/05 at 04:25:18

Hubby adjusted my windshield by using a carpenter's level. Set me on my Savage in my riding position and adjusted windscreen so the top of it was level with the middle of my nose and set it at the same angle as the front forks. NO wind buffeting at all. It's just how we did it.

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by Susan on 04/02/05 at 06:53:15

Patty wrote:

I have a Memphis Shades windshield and what your hubby did is exactly what Memphis Shades tells you to do! :D It is how I set mine and it works great.

What is this wind buffeting of which they speak? ;D ;)

Title: Re: Windscreens, head buffeting and such
Post by WD on 04/02/05 at 19:28:46

Hmm, I'll just stick with "windshields are evil". ;D Well, I don't like them, but my wife hates to ride without one.

I like the level at the middle of the nose trick. Last bike I rode with a shield, the top was at the top of my helmet. Horrible, and I hated to cut down a Vetter fairing windshield. A rock split it, thought I could get away without one. But, my father in law had other ideas. I think I sold the bike a month after the new shield was put on. I really liked that bike too...
-WD