Alright, I may be making progress. I cut a shield I had down to about 8", it is a re-curve model. I then took it for a ride, at 70 mph a definite improvement. I then put my feet, as recommended above the lowers and next to the forks, seemed to help settle the buffeting down even more.

I checked out the above link, does the baffle fit between the forks? The picture does not make reason to me. I have seen the triangular guards that fit along the side of the forks, I may give them a try and modify the stops like another on the site has tried. The quest for reading street signs while taking a ride continues.. I do appreciate all the input, Thanks

 

Yes, it fits between the forks below the tank with the curved part close to the front cylinder head. I agree, the picture makes it hard to visualize. You should be able to locate the threaded holes behind the forks; the straight part attaches there with the curved part facing the motor. It fits right below the frame neck & stops right above the crash bars. If you look closely, you can it on my bike (the shiny chrome right below the tank & next to the lower fairing).

Hope that helps.

 

Ouroboros,

I played around with this a bunch. Over 10 windshields, the fork, baffle, fairing side flippers, and started making my own fork lowers. The side fork lowers helped a bunch over 60 MPH. HD makes some chrome fork lowers to fit your bike.

This is a pic of what I made for mine. The picture shows a 9.5" Clearview recurve. But I like the Cee Bailey SSC windshields a bit better at speed. http://www.ceebaileys.com/harley/flhtssc_ws.html

 

Fork baffle made no differeance on mine. What worked for me was to install the fork mounted wind deflectors.. Have to take of the lower fairings because the wind deflectors will hit the lower fairings.

 

i have the fork deflectors and still have my lowers on, the only time they touch is when I go to lock the forks. You can just make out the fork baffle under the triple tree.

 

http://www.customflhtwindshields.net...allery1-18.jpg

I put this windshield on with the flat top and the wider than stock and took alot of buffeting off of me especially the shoulders...im 6' and wear a half helmet and dont have many problems....im going to get the fork baffles also...

 

it seems that the buffeting is only when wearing your helmet? If thats the case, I would be looking at a different helmet. There are several on the market that have additional veins molded into them to decrease lift and buffeting. The full face I use is made by Impact and was designed for race car use. Excellent helmet.

 

I have read great things on this forum about the Long Ride Shield ultra.

http://harleyshields.com/ultra_flip_up.html

It seems to be reasonably priced.

 

I put lowers, and a baffle on mine. It has helped some. Where I get a lot of buffeting is when I put my feet up on the pegs on the crash bars. Different helmets hasn't seemed to make much of a difference. I wear a half and 3/4. seems to be about the same

 

With 96000 highway miles on my 06 Ultra I have a pretty good idea where the buffeting gremlins lie. The difference between no helmet, a small helmet and a ff helmet is tremendous: no helmet, no buffeting; ff helmet max buffeting. It is due to the surface area the wind is slapping against. I tried six different windshields and concluded that with a ff helmet (ARAI FF,95% of the time) the windshield does not make a bit of difference. The wind that is causing the problem is coming from below the faring and above the lowers and beating against the surface area of the helmet.

How to stop it? Wind deflectors mounted on the forks, about $69 at the dealer.

Bwana

fwiw...the higher the windshield, the larger the low pressure area below the airflow which sucks more air up from below