I hate windshields
Cruiser
Joined: Feb 2010
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From: Sweden
I also have a severe neck injury. My neck is actually benefitting from riding without a shield. Trains the supporting musculature.
But I wish I had a shield a couple of months ago when I hit a BIG flying insect head on. It was filled with about 300 eggs, all smelly. Most of it hit my face. I took me a week to get rid of the smell.
But I wish I had a shield a couple of months ago when I hit a BIG flying insect head on. It was filled with about 300 eggs, all smelly. Most of it hit my face. I took me a week to get rid of the smell.
Grand HDF Member
Joined: May 2007
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From: Mount Laurel, N.J.
Yepper, different strokes for different folks.
If I ride without the windscreen, the air pressure pushes back the half helmet and it feels like a parachute pulling my head back. Windscreen makes the ride much more comfortable. More so in cold weather.
If I ride without the windscreen, the air pressure pushes back the half helmet and it feels like a parachute pulling my head back. Windscreen makes the ride much more comfortable. More so in cold weather.
If you rode here in Tennessee without a windshield you would be covered with more bug splatter than you could ever imagine,usually when I get home my windshield looks like it went through a war..I recently found out how butterflies got their name..when they hit your windshield they look like a stick of butter..
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Joined: May 2008
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From: Mount Holly, NC
i think its a genetic condition. some of us just can't stand windshields. they drive me batty i want to rip em off and ride free.
but the fairing on my sportbike is totally different. that thing cuts the wind like mad. absolutely a dream to ride. quiet as hell. 100+mph with no pressure on the helmet or chest.
but the fairing on my sportbike is totally different. that thing cuts the wind like mad. absolutely a dream to ride. quiet as hell. 100+mph with no pressure on the helmet or chest.
Stage II
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 2
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Well this is first day impressions of that windshield, the ride in (wearing my bacalva and a skid lid, leather uppers and just my carhart pants) I was thinking what is up with this shizit, I am 57 and the top of that new WS is right at eye height so I am seeing that yellow line like I did back in the 70s(ol Tim Leary would have been jealous of the results) so down the road about 10 miles I stopped and raised it,
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