9 Great Illuminated Windshields

1. LED Fairing Windshield Trim

Once you get started customizing a full dress bagger with neon and LED lights, it can snowball until every surface lights up in a different colors. The image above shows plug and play illumination for the base of the windscreen, available from various makers, and you can get them for around the fairing vent too. But that will barely scratch the itch if you really want to light things up. For that, you are going to want an LED lit custom etched windshield. You can basically get any design you want etched into your windscreen, but much like tattoos, some images work better than others. Let's look at a few of the better ones, and a kit to do it yourself.

2. Radiantz Bluntz Universal LED Kit

Before you get all fancy with etched logos, maybe you just want the whole windshield to glow in an accent color? These affordable kits come with an LED strip in your choice of colors, and a metal piece of trim that holds it to the windscreen. You may want to double up, so you can put one on each side, but LED lighting draws little power, so you don't have to worry about stressing your charging system. These lights may be all you need to give a custom design already etched into your windshield a little bit of a glow. You can find them at the Radiantz site, or many other online retailers.

3. POW/MIA Never Forgotten

Many veterans ride, and many of them know guys who did not come back from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan or any number of other war zones. Show that you will never forget your brothers in arms with an etched windscreen with the classic POW/MIA symbol and slogan on it, along with a classy set of wings, or stylized waves. These come in your choice of colors and windshield heights from Darkside Shields, and fit 1996 and up Street Glides, Electra Glides and more.

4. Custom Armed Forces Windscreens

If you want to go a step beyond the generic POW/MIA logo, perhaps you'd like to pay tribute to your specific unit, or ship? Army, navy, air force or marines, you can get custom logo etched into your screen. These pictured, from Illumatek, are custom designs with multi-colored LEDs embedded into the clear plastic of the windshield, in a patented process. Anything you can imagine, they can create, for any bike, or even golf carts.

5. Tinted Screen with Harley-Davidson Logo

If you have a tricked out Street Glide, why not add this dark tinted shorty windscreen with the Harley-Davidson logo in it? During the day it is just a red/amber color, but at night it can light up in your choice of colors. Tricked Out Custom Cycles makes them in the standard logo, or the dark custom logo with the skull in the middle of it. 

6. Custom Buffalo Mural Scene

This mural scene of buffalo roaming across the range, spotted at a rally and found on the internet, really shows what a talented artist can do. The lines in this etching are so thin it is hard to believe with was done any way but with a laser, based on a very fine pen and ink drawing. You can almost imagine the sound of those two majestic beasts bashing heads in the wilderness.

7. Tarantula

I don't know about you, but I would find staring through this big hairy bug all the time to be distracting. The only bugs I want to fins on my bike are the ones squashed on the front of it from riding all day long.

8. First Responder Tribute

Next to veterans and active service members, first responders are probably the largest single group of Harley riders by profession. Wouldn't it be great to pay tribute to your precinct or ladder company than with a illuminated windshield for your Harley-Davidson police or fire edition bike? These are available from Illumatek and Darkside Shields, in various designs and custom styles.

9. Grim Reaper

Are you the kind of guy who laughs in the face of death? Maybe after losing a friend or two you want to give the grim reaper the finger? Either of these LED illuminated screens featuring the pale rider will do you just fine then. If anyone asks, you can tell them FTW stands for free to wheel, that is if you don't want to offend them.

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