How to Ride The Wind...
6th Gear
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 11
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From: North Carolina
Do you want to look cool or enjoy your ride?? because neither of the windshields you are asking about are going to do a lot for the wind. Your helmet shake is from the wind kicking off your short windshield onto your helmet. The wind splitter and KW are both directional with the intention of going OVER your head but it's probably going straight into your head. My guess about your feet is that your knees and feet are too far apart from the frame/tank of the bike, stick your hand out the window of your car at 80 and then do it at 35-50 and tell me if you see a difference...
Buy a touring windshield for the long rides and you will enjoy yourself. By the way, the KW advertisements show people with no helmets which sort of shows they know about buffeting if you ask me.
Buy a touring windshield for the long rides and you will enjoy yourself. By the way, the KW advertisements show people with no helmets which sort of shows they know about buffeting if you ask me.
Road Captain
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 621
Likes: 3
From: N CA
God i hate to see post like this - guess I'm just getting old but I don't ride 80 MPH - But then again I never rode 80 MPH even when I was younger - that is for any extended period of time - But then again I have "never" been down either - we have lost 1 guy this week & they will pull the plug on another biker this week - cause of both crash's - high speed - lost control on a curve in both cases - You have a new bike & your out running 80 MPH in the wind to boot - not good choices but it's your choice.
Road Warrior
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 1,945
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From: Victoria, Australia
Well Purple-- you can't have "the look" and be protected by a short screen, similar for the legs/feet at the same time.
For around town, short day rides, etc. ride slow and keep what you've got.
Alternately if your going to 'hit the road' for high speed cruising/touring I recommend a flip screen (such as made by our good board friends LRS) that you can see over the top about 30-50mm which will raise the wind over your head/helmet AND add a set of lowers. Both are easily switchable depending on your riding style on the day.
The alternate to a full set of lowers would be to add a set of leather aprons to the engine guards (such as desert dawgs) which are removable/installable quickly.
You just can't have it both ways at the same time.....
For around town, short day rides, etc. ride slow and keep what you've got.
Alternately if your going to 'hit the road' for high speed cruising/touring I recommend a flip screen (such as made by our good board friends LRS) that you can see over the top about 30-50mm which will raise the wind over your head/helmet AND add a set of lowers. Both are easily switchable depending on your riding style on the day.
The alternate to a full set of lowers would be to add a set of leather aprons to the engine guards (such as desert dawgs) which are removable/installable quickly.
You just can't have it both ways at the same time.....
Tourer
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 325
Likes: 2
From: Texas
Same with me when I started riding the SG. It's an odd sensation, felt like my feet were getting pushed to the sides and forced off the boards. I was getting some serious helmet rattling turbulence as well. This was on the stock shield, 10" LRS shield and 6.5" Flare. After reading other threads I tried fork deflectors and it completely got rid of the buffeting and the feet-pushing sensation both. I absolutely love riding the SG now.
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Tourer
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 325
Likes: 2
From: Texas
Do you want to look cool or enjoy your ride?? because neither of the windshields you are asking about are going to do a lot for the wind. Your helmet shake is from the wind kicking off your short windshield onto your helmet. The wind splitter and KW are both directional with the intention of going OVER your head but it's probably going straight into your head. My guess about your feet is that your knees and feet are too far apart from the frame/tank of the bike, stick your hand out the window of your car at 80 and then do it at 35-50 and tell me if you see a difference...
Buy a touring windshield for the long rides and you will enjoy yourself. By the way, the KW advertisements show people with no helmets which sort of shows they know about buffeting if you ask me.
Buy a touring windshield for the long rides and you will enjoy yourself. By the way, the KW advertisements show people with no helmets which sort of shows they know about buffeting if you ask me.
I'm 5'-8" and from reading complaints about turbulence it seems most of the compliants come from people under 5'-10", that's probably because our head is down in that turbulent zone whereas taller people are up in cleaner air. It's also worse if you wear a helmet, especially a full face (as I do).
As I just mentioned above, fork deflectors solved the problem for me. Others have solved it with batwing deflectors (I didn't try them) and some feel that the triple tree deflector works too although it's gotten very mixed comments. Some use a combination of these three.
Big Kahuna HDF Member
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 35,506
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From: Calgary eh
I don't know about the wind, never noticed that before. But just last weekend me and my wife were out for a ride, I hit a huge dip in the road, she left the seat. She said her feet were off the floor boards and she was 3 feet off the seat. I think she was exaggerating, probably only a foot up.