I tried a few windshields until I found one that eliminates most head buffeting. No fun when your eyeballs are shaking so bad you can barely see.

 

Do you wear a helmet? And if so does it have a visor?

 

Fork mounted baffles and the ash tray under the triple tree. I don't like the look of the fork mounted baffles , but i can't see them when i'm going done the road at 80 mph grinning ear to ear enjoying my ride. Otherwise with out them my head would shake like it was in a paint can mixer.

 

I don't have a batwing but i added the walrus tooth fork baffels and a set of Desert Dawgs . they are desined a bit diffrent than the HD soft lowers elimanating any heat issues .

 

Walrus Tooth....that's Funny. They are UGLY, but they sure do help with Buffeting.

 

Yes they are, so ugly I will suck up wind before I will run em lol

 

Another vote for the JES Custom Accent fork mounted lowers. Put a chrome set on my black Limited last fall and they really cut down the air coming up in front of the tank. Some say the black ones look better on a black bike but I'm a chrome fan. They do not totally eliminate the air but make it bearable. I already had the lowers on guards and batwing deflectors came with the bike so this was the next step. I'm 6'2" and still running the 12" windshield. Pretty happy with air flow around it other than I am looking through it most of the time. The air off the windshield just touches the top of my helment but not enough to notice.

 

I was shocked at how much I was batted around on my '12 SG when I really started riding it. As some have mentioned, my eyeballs were unable to steadily focus on the road. First thing I did was to purchase and install a Long Ride Shields 6" Ultra. This eliminated 100% of the direct head on buffeting, which was the primary culprit for my eyes. It sends the head on stream of air directly over my head, though as I've learned, not ALL bugs stay in that damn stream!

What remains is coming from down low around the engine and then upagainst my chest/head. I've spent many miles moving my hands all over to try and isolate the remaining wind. It's fine for shorter rides, but I think it would really leave me fatigued after a 500+ mile day, to say the least. I've read, researched, and read some more. I see lots of folks installing lowers on their bike (too expensive). The thing that seems to be the most universal, but hated, improvement is the fork baffles that provide a wind block along the outter part of each fork. Very much mixed results with everything else, and I hate to install the cloth things that attach to the engine guards as I typically don't have an issue with cold in Southen California. I've got a put a stop to my recent spending spree so I'm going to hold off, but a few items that might help.

I recall finding a post where a guy went through pretty methodically and tried every single one of the options that have been mentioned here one by one and offering results as to the improvement for each. You might try searching a bit, it would have been no later than first half of last year. In a quick search I did find a review by a forum member that posts great reviews. He also installed a 6" recurve (I was his guina pig) and then some fairing deflectors. I don't recall them being overly effective when others spoke of them when the wind is coming from down low, but here's the link, you might find some interesting reading on the topic. Maybe LRS has a better design, but as you'll see several folks liked them plenty.

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...ing-cured.html


Good luck . . .

 

Sorry man, but that simply isn't true. I seriously doubt you could find even one single case where either the hard or soft lowers caused a motor to cook itself. It's just never happened.
I run my elephant ears all the way into the 80 degree mark with no issues whatsoever. Anyone with an Ultra runs their factory installed lowers all year 'round with zero issues.
Sure, it will get a little warm behind those things which gives the soft lowers the advantage: they go on and off with almost no effort.

 

Fork deflectors cleaned up the air for me, not the prettiest but got the job done.