Screens on Cruisers - Yay or Nay?

[Waylander]

Hahaha yea you got me there but im not about to stick one on it.
Cheers.AJ.

Yea same. would be nice to have one but to be honest I don't ride that fast that often to make it worth it.

[Thunder 8]

Yea same. would be nice to have one but to be honest I don't ride that fast that often to make it worth it.

Tried heaps of those little clipon screens.They work but the buffetting drove me bugshit and i hate the look. Oh well.

[johnnyflash]

Tried heaps of those little clipon screens.They work but the buffetting drove me bugshit and i hate the look. Oh well.

Ive never had any success with clipons, always ended up in the bin :-(

[Thunder 8]

Ive never had any success with clipons, always ended up in the bin :-(

Yep me to.

[caseye]

Well Johnnyflash, I've had an hour or so in the rain and I've got to say I arrived at my destination dry as a bone. thanks to my cordura trou and jacket. Was coming onthe Westpac ride today but my dad was arriving at 9am and didn't till 10am , then left after 11 am , too late by then.
Badger8 I'd ride rain hail or snow but on work days i get to take the co vehicle. Though to his credit my boss has allowed that on particular days i'm allowed to ride to work.
Overall so far I'd keep the screen, not worried what it looks like to others it works for me.
Don't worry as soon as me an the bike can get outa the garage we'll be on the next available run.

[Biggles2000]

Well I almost never take the barn door off the road king. Only on the hottest days and only if the ride is shorter than 1 hour in total (which is almost never). I recon the bike looks better without it but the screen improves the rider comfort of the bike by at least 250%.

[jafar]

Every time I have tried a screen on a bike it has come off.
They have made the steering different & caught the crosswinds, the buffeting experienced with them has put me off. I have found I can go further faster on a naked than with a screen.

[Holy Roller]

Though with a decent screen (size) it does make a huge difference in the wet. After having almost total weather protection it will be hard going back. Especially when one gets off their bike relatively dry and ones mate is totally drenched.

[pritch]

I don't ride a cruiser, but the only two guys I can think of who do both ride Honda 1300s with screens. The screens don't make the bike look silly.
(Or "any sillier", for those who really don't like cruisers.)

Having a handlebar mounted screen can create a hazard in tricky wind conditions. The bigger the screen the bigger the potential problem I guess.

The Transport Dept stopped using them after a series of accidents, mostly involving handlebar mounted screens on Yamahas from memory. They then went to BMWs with frame mounted fairings and screens until someone figured out that it cost as much to run the bikes as it did to run the cars...

[Zookey]

For what its worth have just done a thousand miler across the Naki ;mate on a new Shadow had a small Givi screen and i mean small.the whole trip he never cleaned his visor once i had too clean off the white butterflies in every towns service station.:

[outlawtorn]

I'm defintely going to get a screen, a big mutha of a screen too, I commute from Stanmore bay to Arch Hill every day (80km round trip) and would love to arrive at work in winter, warmer and dryer. I do prefer my bike without a screen, however I must give way to practicality on this occassion.

[duckonin]

Every time I have tried a screen on a bike it has come off.
They have made the steering different & caught the crosswinds, the buffeting experienced with them has put me off. I have found I can go further faster on a naked than with a screen.

On An 1800, further and faster than with a screen ha ha don't think so, a bike mounted screen is hard to beat set it right and it is all happy miles..

Took a M109 for three hundred k's after toughing the wind I really didn't want to ride it back home ave 105-110k's going but on the return 90max was pleased to get back on my bike...

[Radar]

I've done a couple of 800+ a day rides and without the windscreen I'd have never gone the distance. I'm way past the stage of being worried about biker looks poofy or other wise. Anything that reduces stress is a plus for me. I've ridden with the screen off and on.................I prefer it on.

Skyryder

I'm with Skyryder - I don't give a toss about what others may think of screen or no screen. My last bike was a BMW that I bought at the Munich factory. I toured Europe during one of the coldest wettest summers in a long time and so I promised myself if I ever got another bike it would have a screen. So my now my temporary 250 bike has a small GIVI screen and I am sure glad I had it when riding it back home 3+ hours after the purchase. My next bike will probably be a cruiser and the larger the screen the better - and I may get a look-like-a-cop fluoro vest so cagers might show some respect. Young tough guys may not mind hours of 100+ kph wind blast but anything to cut fatigue so I can be safe and enjoy the ride is where I am at.

[outlawtorn]

I'm with Skyryder - I don't give a toss about what others may think of screen or no screen. My last bike was a BMW that I bought at the Munich factory. I toured Europe during one of the coldest wettest summers in a long time and so I promised myself if I ever got another bike it would have a screen. So my now my temporary 250 bike has a small GIVI screen and I am sure glad I had it when riding it back home 3+ hours after the purchase. My next bike will probably be a cruiser and the larger the screen the better - and I may get a look-like-a-cop fluoro vest so cagers might show some respect. Young tough guys may not mind hours of 100+ kph wind blast but anything to cut fatigue so I can be safe and enjoy the ride is where I am at.

what this bloke said! Couldn't agree more!

[jafar]

On An 1800, further and faster than with a screen ha ha don't think so, a bike mounted screen is hard to beat set it right and it is all happy miles..

Took a M109 for three hundred k's after toughing the wind I really didn't want to ride it back home ave 105-110k's going but on the return 90max was pleased to get back on my bike...

Well mabey I had the screen set wrong, but it was a royal pain & it was off @ the first opportunity. I havn't bothered with another handlebar one since.

I brought my VTX in Christchurch & rode it home in a weekend 1,000k's with NO SCREEN
Wind wasn't an issue ........ was my bloody arse that was on fire