They offer another option at Clearview:

Clearview Shields normally creates their Cruiser replacements to match the appearance of the rider’s stock replacement with a tight cut around the light but increasing that gap around the opening can help to decrease the updraft that creates turbulent air from below (fig 1). This option can be created upon request. Please contact customer service for model application.

 

I am still running the tab and have no complaints
I had the same issue on a dyna shield and went to freedom shields which was way better quality than std but still had buffeting then added the tabs and the wind smoothed out
thought I would try it on the Fatboy and so glad I did
Running with this fix ongoing now

 

Any chance of a pic of this mod on your bike? I've ordered up the mending plates, but want to see how the bushing fits on the end of the mending plate - I presume it fits on the outside of the plate?

 

I want to clarify what you mean by buffeting. To me buffeting is a irregular pounding from the side wind. There is also a regular air flow caused by moving through that air. An example of buffeting for me is in the Jeep or truck with certain windows down, Jeep the worse since it has all the aerodynamic qualities of a brick. Air comes in the open windows and collides somewhere inside marking the pounding. On the heritage I get a wind flow up from below but it's a steady flow, not pounding. Air over the top and side of the stock windshield clears me but not sure what it would do to a passenger. As far as the lower air flow, I can detect it beholding my arm horizontal across my stomach. Makes a quieter and less windy ride but rather awkward to keep the arm there. Maybe I'll tape a mannequin arm on my stomach.

So is this lower wind flow what you are calling buffeting that these tabs fix?

EDIT Add; several years ago I test rode a RG and for me that bike had buffeting. A got up to 80 on the ride. My head was pounded by it. I tired to determine exactly where it was coming from but apparently that fairing had several sources. I read about people "chasing windshields" to get a better ride but I wasn't going to get something I didn't like out of the box. I got the EG instead.

 

I don't think the vent looks bad at all. It just looks like a shield with a vent. Personally, I found that you quickly get to a point that you don't even really notice it. On the Heritage you can get the vent mounted below the horizontal bracket (in the black area) if you like (the trade is that you won't be able to mount a windshield bag). If you don't want to pay for a new shield, you can just get the vent and mount it in the stock shield. However, you probably lose some benefit of the recurve.

I'd have to see more of this solution to say yeah or nay (lots of blanks that one picture fails to fill in). How does angling/laying the shield back more towards the rider look on the bike? What does it do with the space between the shield and the bars (space used by many to mount electronics or windshield bags)? If you take a step back, how does the added (perhaps kludged) hardware look on the bike from the side? Could the same results be achieved by just increasing the gap between the shield and headlight (seems like a simple enough cut) as noted by Hulkss? I'm not saying it's not a workable solution, but it does raise some questions.

 

Buffeting in my definition is getting the helmet battered by turbulent airflow caused by the aerodynamics of the windshield and bike.

With this fix, on the open road, there's plenty of airflow but never a jarring bumpiness or battering or head shaking or bobbling.

Now, if I go past a big truck that's stirring up a lot of turbulence, then I will experience it. But as soon as I get back in clean air, the ride is smooth as can be.

 

 

As for mending plate size, get the smallest that will fit. You don't need too much take, and the size I used is fine, maybe even longer than necessary.

I just did 1180 miles yesterday at high speed across the southwest, no buffeting.

 

I actually like the way the vent looks. Maybe it's just because I paid the extra for it, but it's very effective and I think it looks fine.




That said, I have zero buffeting (literally none) but if I did, I'd try the tabs in a heartbeat.

 

is this clear view shield? How much that was?