| Author | Message | ||
     Melie |
Have any of you XB owners tried the plastic handguards/wind deflectors?l Do they work? Are they worth the money? Were they easy to install? thank you, Mark | ||
| Chessm |
talking about the stock buell ones? yes they work for deflecting the wind. theyre not real bark busters though as they wont save your levers or anything in a fall. just blocks wind and very light objects. worth the money if you get them used and for cheap. easy to install as long as it comes with the screws and stuff that attaches them. you might do better getting real dirt bike handguards. | ||
| Hammer71 |
saved my levers when i went down. depends on how hard it hits i guess. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Had them on the 9sx and the Uly, and they were fine. A little warm in the summer, and not that much better in the winter, but they keep gravel off your knuckles. Now I'm running aluminum guards with plastic covers on the Uly, and like them better. Very stout, and less of an air block during the summer. They also look a bit less invasive. For winter, I got some big flaps to velcro over the rigid guards, and they are genuinely warm. So at the end of the day, if you have the stock ones, they are fine. But if you are buying something, you can do better. I put a write up about it in the knowledge vault, let me know if you want it and can't find it and I'll hunt it up. | ||
| Melie |
Thank you all. Just looking for something to warm my hands and extend the riding season. | ||
| Aussiexbox |
Melie,I had them for 6 years on the Uly,and had been told they acted like little airfoils,disrupting the air and making the bike feel a little skittish,and only recently removed them due to changing the levers. In my mind I believe this to be true,I feel the bike doesn't get the little high speed wobble that it used to,but maybe that is in my head and I want to believe it,as for warmer in winter............nah!heavier gloves are always better....  | ||
| Reepicheep |
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/384 2/668497.html?1329488405 The Lee Park gloves are nice, but not magic, so I would spend that $125 elsewhere. I also have polly heaters with a custom digital thermostat buried in the bars. Makes things fairly cozy all the way down to freezing (which is when I generally stop riding, just because it's too much stress to try and distinguish between black ice and tar strips). |
