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You want to look OVER a bike windshield, never through it. Inclement weather, night time and/or the within a couple of hours of install and riding haze really foul up your vision. And oncoming headlights or streetlights just amplify the problem.
If you buy a bar mount windshield, install it as close to straight up as you can get it without compromising the cheesy (ultra fragile) stock plastic headlight bucket. Shields were designed to run 90 degrees to the ground.
If you buy a fork mount shield, run it angled as far forward as the mounting slots will allow. If you don't it is quite common for the wind over the top to try and rip your helmet off.
Can't find the right one in a catalog? No worries, go to your "friendly" neighborhood HD shop and buy one for a Sportster. As long as you get one that mounts to the bars, you'd think it was tailor made for the Savage. Peel off the decal, mount it up, adjust to suit and away you go. Pricey, but they do tend to have a better anti-scratch coating than most of the aftermarket models. Just don't mention it is for a metric, watching full grown brand whores cry is nauseating.
And if you run apehanger bars, don't run a windshield.
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