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Diablobrian
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just wondering if anyone had tried the Memphis Shades
windscreens for the 'bolts. In particular the gradient
color cockpit series. Will they eliminate the dreaded
double-bubble gage burn?

Thanks
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Isham
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 07:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Whats this gage burn you talk about?
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Indy_bueller
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 08:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The "double-bubble" aftermarket windscreen has a tendency to focus sunlight in such a way that it will melt the gauges on a Firebolt dash.
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Pcmodeler
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 08:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I think the double bubble issue is only with the clear. I have the dark smoke double bubble and haven't had any problems on mine.

I did see those Memphis ones. They look nice enough.
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Tork
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 08:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The smoked ones do it. I have the the burnt dash cluster to prove it. It happens with the bike pointed with its tail to the sun. I simply throw my gloves on top of the dash cluster when I park it. It doesn't get hot enough to burn anything else.
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Pcmodeler
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Weird. I've had mine for about a year now. Always park with the rear of the bike facing the sun and haven't had any problems......yet. Is yours the smoke or the dark smoke?
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Reducati
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

dark smoke here, and no problems either
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Tork
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Dark smoke on mine. Search the archives and you'll probably find a couple of posts about it. When it burned my dash, I emailed Zero Gravity and they acknowledged a melting problem with their Double Bubble screens. The have reports of it happening with their DB for other bike models, too. One post here comments about it happening to his RC51. Some folks never experience it. It happens.
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M1combat
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Dark smoke here and I have melted gages.

Don't park your bike facing west over night. It happens as the sun rises behind the bike.
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Rocketman
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 03:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

M1, two threads down there's a few people waiting for you to torque?

Rocket
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