Triumphrat

bobw3592 · 08-18-2006

I'm only 5'10". The bike is stable, but the turbulence/helmet lift shaking was severe to the point I had to slow down to see. Not always a good thing in heavy traffic. The chin piece works for now. I had also researched Rumble Strips and Laminar Lip, but I tried the chin piece first. The posts explained the angle of the shield works best when it follows the angle of the forks. That is what I was going to experiment with and still may. The T shields lack the ease of adjustment of other manufacturers. There are numerous posts here and BonnivilleAmerica forum that cover the results of numerous riders experiments. I got mine with Triumph dollars, it looks good, but I believe for the $ there are better designs out there. For a couple of inches less height it may just work perfectly for you. Here are some links. Best of luck.
BobW.

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/lin...art=%5Bcart%5D

http://www.laminarlip.com/test2/

http://www.rumble-strips.com/index.html

:-)

LJ3000 · 08-20-2006

My 3rd and final windscreen is a 19" Memphis Fats. I'm 6 feet tall and the 19 incher was a bit too tall until I got a Roho Airhawk seat, The screen height etc. is now perfect. Depending on my posture, I see over the screen by an inch or three, and only the first 50 feet of road are shown through the screen.

I was still getting some head buffeting with the 19" Memphis, until I installed the lowers. I was very skeptical to read that the lowers would solve the 60 MPH + head buffeting issue, but indeed they did. I have my stock sized lowers almost touching the upper screen, with maybe an 1/8th inch gap between the two to prevent them from crunching together from vibration and deflection.

I moved the Triumph light bar ahead with some short lengths of angle iron, as I didn't want to cut the screen.

[ This message was edited by: LJ3000 on 2006-08-20 03:49 ]

Bryan · 08-20-2006

I didn't actually cut the screen on mine. I have a different badge on my tank so I had to cut the brackets to keep them from hitting the badges.

Brit26 · 08-20-2006

Same bike after I lopped two inches off of the top of the street shield in a band saw. The shield was a little pointed at the top, and too tall for my liking, so I whacked it off. I like the looks of it a lot better, no buffeting at the shorter length either.

I also decided to change the color of the bike after coming across a deal on some brand new take-off fenders and a tank.

Brit26 · 08-21-2006

What Double L said. This is my other TBA with the Roadster Shield.
I love it!

LJ3000 · 08-23-2006

Nice lawn

Brit26 · 08-23-2006

Thanks LJ!

LJ3000 · 08-31-2006

Reply to CODE:

I can't send messages with my account. The Memphis mounting kit for the Speedmaster is the same as the Suzuki Maurauder.

If you opt for the Memphis lowers, (which do indeed eliminate 99.8% of all head buffeting at speed) I suggest the largest Memphis brackets (around 55MM?) Somehow I ended up with the small brackets for my Memphis lowers, which could have been my ordering mistake.

richb · 08-31-2006

That's not a lawn, it's astroturf and the missus has just been out vacuuming it.. :-D

scooterscum · 09-01-2006

Myself I use the bat stealth mode screen, it is invisible and can't be seen by humans.
Actually, I have the Tri Roadmaster and am happy.

Enjoy.