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Ordered a new Tiger 800 today...

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  • #32
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    rat_race wrote: »
    Or is it more complicated than that? Maybe a small screens job might be to direct wind onto riders chest? But maybe shorter riders get it right in the face? I've heard of several people with no screens that get no buffeting. Even one guy removed his screen in a Tiger 800 to stop the buffetting. I don't see how that'd help...but seemed to.
    Had to do the same once with a Honda rebel. It was my mother's bike and she had a big screen on it, I started using it and found that the screen directed the wind straight onto my head. Shes quite short so was sitting nicely in behind the screen had the full protection of the screen.

    So I'd guess he was just too tall for his screen.


  • #33
    rat_race
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭rat_race


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    Had to do the same once with a Honda rebel. It was my mother's bike and she had a big screen on it, I started using it and found that the screen directed the wind straight onto my head. Shes quite short so was sitting nicely in behind the screen had the full protection of the screen.

    So I'd guess he was just too tall for his screen.

    Hmmm...yeah. Dunno now really what the point of a tall screen is...

    I thought a screen is to block extra rain/dirt from hitting you in the chest..., but a side effect of that is that it creates wind buffeting, which should either go over or under your head, ideally. But a taller screen might just be making it WORSE...bah. Time will tell.


  • #34
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,411 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I've always preferred bikes with very short screens, just enough to keep the wind blast off the chest (reducing fatigue on shoulders compared to a naked bike) but leave the lid in clean air, no noise no turbulence.
    Tall screens can work well but are very specific to the bike and the height/riding position of the rider, when they aren't right they can result in horrible turbulence and noise.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #35
    rat_race
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭rat_race


    ninja900 wrote: »
    I've always preferred bikes with very short screens, just enough to keep the wind blast off the chest but leave the lid in clean air, no noise no turbulence.
    Tall screens can work well but are very specific to the bike and the height/riding position of the rider, when they aren't right they can result in horrible turbulence and noise.

    Yeah...I'm only sort of realising tonight that taller does not mean better...and that many screens are designed not to go over your head, but to send the wind lower...or possibly around you. Am I right? Hmm.


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