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Scotty_j
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 03:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

In the summer I take mine off altogether (unless I'm racking up the miles) but in the winter it's the stock shorty plus a Laminar Lip. I love it. I'm 6'-2" and it does the trick. Not quite as protective as Etennuly's (there are cars that don't provide that much coverage) and not as much bracketry as a Palmer. The hardware they provide SUCKS (Grip-Lock? Seriously?), but it's nothing a trip to Ace Hardware couldn't resolve.
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Scotty_j
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 04:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Found a pic of my Laminar:


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Hotdog271
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 05:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Scotty, How is the laminar in the summer? Overall how is it for buffeting?
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Jim_williams
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 06:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Does the palmer bracket have reinforcing on the under side of the windscreen? Any install photos around the web?
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Froggy
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 07:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

No reinforcing, but it doesn't need it. Not really much to see in installation, it literary is just take off flyscreen, remove the rubber grommets, then bolt on the brackets.

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Someday
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 07:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Etennuly,
You're the MAN! American ingenuity! Ya gotta love it.
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Gambito
Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 07:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I believe that would be British ingenuity if it's the brackets you're admiring!

(Message edited by GambitO on December 03, 2009)
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Ratbuell
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 12:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Vern - have you noticed your headlight assembly / gauge housing getting any more movement (mainly at idle) with the BAW installed? I notice a LOT more shake with my CeeBailey installed for winter and I'm curious if you've seen the same. I hate to break any of the aluminum up there and have my gauges/lights end up in my lap, lol. I've checked the mount bolts and they're tight, I think it's just aluminum flexing (ick).
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Scotty_j
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 08:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I did a little trip from Central MA to the Catskills to visit my folks and spent half of it on the Mass pike at an average of around 85. The laminar was fine and I really didn't notice any kind of discomfort (normally my neck would be killing me from head-butting the wind). Buffeting? Can't say I felt much, if any. I think the gap between the two shields makes all the difference. When I picked up the hardware to "hard-mount" the Laminar, I got a few different sizes of nylon spacers to experiment with but the half-inchers I originally mounted seem to be fine.

But there is this little sticky-back rubber bumper that you have to put on the back of the stock windscreen or the laminar will lever it right out of the lower grommets. Don't ask how I know the importance of this.
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Jim_williams
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 08:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

thanks, Froggy. I just figured there might be something underneath. Seems alot of extra weight added to that plastic! Considering madstad came up with an aluminum solution, and, they basically seem like the same thing

I've got some old madstad brackets I might try to rig up. It'd mean drilling holes in the plastic, and, I'm not sure I want to do that, esp. on my really fast white XP
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Etennuly
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 10:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hey Joe,

The instrument pod is mounted with rubber bushings to absorb vibrations. Not to worry about the cast aluminum, it does not flex much!

The BAW has two mounting arms that go back to the top mount holes for the hand guards. These stifle any extra movement in the bushings that would be caused by the windshield. It has not been an issue for the BAW, now in it's fourth season.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 01:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yep, the IP is rubber mounted. To the pieces that are my concern.

My concern is the 2 clamshell halves that mount to the forks, that support the whole deal - flyscreen, headlights, ignition key, turn signals...they attach to the upper tree via 4 bolts, in a flat area. I just want to not flex that piece of aluminum...because aluminum don't like to flex.

I need to just add some upper supports to the handguards. If I push forward slightly on the windscreen, it calms it down quite a bit.
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Kickastro
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 03:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Froggy, which windshield is that pictured on the bracket? My stockie on a Palmer is fracturing at the two upper bushing holes. Yours looks to be reinforced there.

Thank you sir!
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Froggy
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 04:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That is one of the Palmer screens. I put my Stock screen on the brackets during the summer, and it cracked too : D

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