Wind Buffering!!!!!
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Stage IV
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Wind Buffering!!!!!
I got a detachable 18" windshield for my 2009 fatboy and I'm getting a lot of wind buffering and also wind coming up from underneath as well. I rode it out on the freeway and while doing about70mph I placed my left arm across my chest and there was hardly any wind coming from underneath. What can l do to prevent this, l'd appreciate any suggestions. 
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Wind buffering is nothing. Wait until you experience buffeting. Usually a phenomena caused by being on a motorcycle in motion. Guess everybody has to have something that gets their panties wadded up. STFU and ride.
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Wind "buffering" means that you have actually reduced the amount of wind by some degree. Isn't that what a windshield is supposed to do?
Could you possibly mean "wind buffeting"?
Shakey
Could you possibly mean "wind buffeting"?
Shakey
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Yep...fangs. I put them on and they work. Calm pocket of light air around my head and chest since putting them on.
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You're on a motorbike. It's windy and it's usually like that from all directions on different days.
You can get one of those touring bikes with a big plastic fairing and elephant ears for your legs which probably help cut some of the wind but it's not always wind from the front that you feel.
Not much you can do about wind that comes across you from the sides.
I seen a guy this summer on a V-rod touring across Canada with no windshield. I asked him about it and he said this,"There ain,t no wind buffeting at all...just wind".
You can get one of those touring bikes with a big plastic fairing and elephant ears for your legs which probably help cut some of the wind but it's not always wind from the front that you feel.
Not much you can do about wind that comes across you from the sides.
I seen a guy this summer on a V-rod touring across Canada with no windshield. I asked him about it and he said this,"There ain,t no wind buffeting at all...just wind".
