I’m 6ft and find the stock screen gives really bad wind noise, I’ve made different adjustments including adding the Palmer Products mount which helped a little but the screen sits way too high and looks odd. I tried the Puig touring screen with deflector which helps with noise but causes buffeting so I decided to remove screen and brackets and it’s made a huge difference. Yes there is wind noise but not excessive, no buffeting at all, also I quite like the look of it.
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Don’t overlook the fact that a contributor to the buffeting is the channels on either side of the tank at the front.
Many people fit various designs of wind deflectors at the top of the channels which can cause a major reduction in the buffeting and hence the screen performance and noise etc.
I’ve heard mixed reviews on the wind deflectors. I’ve tried a few options but still need to look at others. Thank you for your feedback.
I found the stock screen awfully noisy so have tried a few different screen sizes.
When riding it was quieter crouching and noisier sitting high so it sounded like the screen needed to be higher…
But after reading a few posts about how quiet it was without the screen (and because it is easy to do) i tried it without and wow it was quiet! Just like a smooth naked bile with a teeny flyscreen (LC350, Ducati Monster 1200, GRiSO etc) lovely to 70 fine to 80 and bearable 85-90!!
But I want the instruments protected from the weather so I made a little blade flyscreen out of 3mm HDPE (because it is cheap and easy to work with).
Heated to 60 degrees c you can bend it and it sets (slowly) with that curve.
The screen is currently attached to the instruments with 3 sticky foam pads
I made it narrow so that i can refit the original screen and frame over it (for very rainy or long cold rides) but it still protects the instruments and gives nice clean air as quiet as no screen at all.
I used Cardboard Aided Design and the original file is below with measurements
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I’m 6’1" with a Travel V85TT, the larger screen buffeted me really bad, I went for a small screen and de byl wind deflectors, huge improvement, sit in clean air now, more like a naked bike, no buffeting.
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Strange i never experienced buffeting I am 5’9" but long body (short legs!)
Could be because removed the beak early on and don’t use an adv helmet?
Could be because i am too stupid/insensitive to notice?
Weirdly i refitted the big powerbronze screen over my home made flyscreen and the whole assembly is much quieter than the Powerbronze alone and may be as quiet as the flyscreen up to 70+ mph
So having the flyscreen between the instruments and the screen frame massively reduces noise! Even at a three figure GPS speed it was fairly quiet! I need to leave it like this for a while to see if it was just psychology or wind direction