This was my first full month  (except for a couple days) of savage cOmute. The round trip is right on 80 miles and runs some where between 1 and 1.5 hours each way. I think I've found the last (for now) oil leak but that will be another post - very interesting - anyway - this 1995 savage that followed me home in feb has a Memphis Shades wind screen and above 50 for sure above 60 mph, even just for 10 minutes, makes my neck sore from the helment buffeting. Well, I was standing around the other day talking to a bud that rides an at least 30 year old "full dress" HD he calls it, and I said something about this wind buffeting at 60+ and he looked at the savage and looked at me and looked at the savage and says well your just a dumba$$. Well I've known this guy for at least 20 years and we've been all over the southern parts fishing together - in Costa Rica after sailfish with flyrods at least ten times, he flys ultralights and I've wrenched the d@mn 2-stroke rotax that keeps him the air- what you mean a dumba$$? Well, he says, you see all the adjustments on the mounts? You can either use them to look cool by getting the windscreen close to the head light and raked back like yours or you use them to tune the windscreen and send the airstream over your head instead of into it, if you would push the windscreen up and tilt forward at bit it will toss the air above your helment - got it? Well, I spent several hours today doing the windscreen tune'n - I'm shocked - the first couple of trys - not much different - but then ......... its about an inch or so above the headlight, pushed forward about even with the glass, and tilted a bit forward - it's gone - I mean none - helment buffet at all - or just very slight - at 70!      

with the exception of max's bagger, most of the windscreens i've seen mounted have ended up being appearance mods rather than performance mods.

it does take some time and basic aerodynamic knowledge to set it up properly.  

maybe someone would like to work something up for  the technical section.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try adjusting the National Cycle windscreen on my '02 to cutdown on the buffeting. This means I'll need to go out, drive around for a while, adjust the windscreen and do it all over again till I like it. . My life just got good, have a reason to ride. Yippie
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The bike is not a Savage, but the principle is the same:

http://www.surfmaine.com/rebel/windscreens.html

Great minds think alike.

Patty wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


I have a Memphis Shades windshield and what your hubby did is exactly what Memphis Shades tells you to do!   It is how I set mine and it works great.

What is this wind buffeting of which they speak?