Severe Wind Buffeting on Road Glide
My friend just bought 06 road glide ($29,000) above 60mph severe buffeting - bought windscreen adapter - less buffeting but still annoying - wife on back experiences extreme buffeting - so much that she can't concentrate vision on any object - everything is blurred - any suggestions beside purchase BMW 1200 rt - that's my suggestion - he's a Harley dude - it's a sickness - Bill
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severe wind buffeting
For those with the buffeting problem, take your left arm and put it across your chest at 60 or above and see if the buffeting around your head is gone. If so, that is what the AeroVest was specifically designed to do. It deflects the wind rushing up the front of your torso so the upper wind (over the shield) and the lower wind (coming from below) don't meet at your head and shake it. It's simple and it works.A lot cheaper than buying several diferent shields and lowers while searching for an answer
Wind issues with all Road Glides
In order for most Road Glides to be riden for long distances they need three things to be added to them.
1. Taller windshields.
2. Air dam between tripple tree.
3. Lowers.
Once all the above have been accomplished, you have done all you can do.
Re: [Harleys?] Re: Harley addiction
You will get some buffeting from the wind due to the eglide fairing but i found a solution for a fairing that works great for me an my passenger, wife. Check out this web site and if you have any questions at all call Robin or Pat as they are really good down to earth people who came up with a common sense product.
Mike "Smooth" Elliott
http://www.customflhtwindshields.net
Re: Harley addiction
When my Sportster was new I also had a tremendous amount of wind buffeting. I have a Custom with forward pegs, and my leg position seemed to be just right to direct the blast off my knees right up under my chin. Felt like it was going to rip my helmet right off, and my head with it. I like those forward pegs, so instead of moving them back, the solution I found was to install a big removeable/adjustable wind-screen with lowers, and then I had to fiddle with it until the aerodynamics were just right to send the blast over my head. The moral of my story is, just installing the wind-screen was not enough, in some positions it seemed to do not much good at all. For that much money, trading over to a BMW also sounds like a very good option.
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