Screen

[Old Turkey]

Hi Jim

I have actually ordered the parts from the Spanish firm and am awaiting delivery.  I guess that time & price (for me) would probably be the same whether I ordered from Pyramid plastics or from Spain.

Cheers

Ian S

[RoryD]

My Puig Touring 2 screen arrived from Spain earlier in the week (good service & delivery tracking) and I had my first (work) trip with it today to Findhorn. What a difference! It allows for much more relaxed riding/ hand grip, it’s warmer and drier (maybe midsummer, but only 10 deg's here; a miserable summer so far), and I can flip the visor up a good bit up without being force-fed air/flies. I’ve a good clear view over the screen-top but reckon the main air-stream only hits the very top of my helmet - so, while there’s a wee bit of turbulence around my upper head, this is nothing compared to the wind blast when it was naked. I am now much happier travelling with the traffic at UK trunk road speeds of c.100kph – and no doubt it will be great when going faster.

The Touring 2 Inazuma screen from Mototen (ref 6862; link below) did indeed include both the full universal Touring 2 screen kit (5267W) and the additional  Inazuma-specific mirror mount brackets (10444). The struts/handlebar clamps are pre-fitted on the screen so you simply remove the clamps before fitting - and it was a pretty straightforward fit once you decide where, and how upright, to have the screen. I discovered the Inazuma’s mirror mounts are different heights and gave the support struts different slopes so, for the sake of appearance, I added a c.1cm spacer under the left bracket to make the struts more level with each other.

All-in-all, on my very limited experience today, I'd join the others in heartily recommending the Puig Touring 2 screen. I think it’s reasonable value at just under £90 incl. tax and delivery, and also think it makes the bike feel/ look more substantial (..... if possibly very slightly scootery ??)

 - RoryD

http://mototen.com/en_suzuki/inazuma_250/windscreen_touring_ii_model_for_suzuki_inazuma

[Old Turkey]

Hi RoryD

It sounds like a good idea adding the spacer but is the thread really long enough?  Having both screen brackets at the same height would make adjusting the screen angle easier as both the height difference and different distances of the mirror mounts from the handlebar 'centre' conspire to make it trickey

Although I am still using the modified small angle brackets I have made the screen slightly more upright and found it did reduce the turbulence/wind noise in the helmet.  When I fit the proper bracket I'll just keep fiddling until I get the best angle.

Cheers

Ian S

[RoryD]

Just back from a brief trip in the wet ….. but at least it’s warmer! If weather holds I may have a long work-related trip at the weekend, so it’ll get a real good test then. The original bolt threads were long enough - but I think I may have swapped the bolts left-right. My bike is complicated by mirror extenders that needed me to have spacers in place anyway to stop the bolts bottoming out - the spacers I use are from old bicycle rear wheel spindles.

Looking back at Tripes Rodeur’s original post, I’m wondering whether my own screen has shorter struts than his as my screen isn’t mounted so low/ far forward on the headlight cowling – see piccies below.   

- Rory

[Old Turkey]

Hi Rory

The bottom of my screen also positioned itself as your has, further back than Tripes Rodeur' screen.  I see that you, like me, changed the attachments of the struts to the screen to be coming from the inside of the attachment point so that the end of the struts at the handlebar end almost line up with the brackets.  When I got my screen the struts were attached to it the other way round so that at the handlebar end they would have been several inches too wide.  I wonder if Tripes Rodeur simply left the struts at their widest which would have the effect of bowing the screen out forwards when fitted to the handlebar brackets?

Cheers

Ian S

[Old Turkey]

Hi Rory (again)

I have just checked the photos of Tripes Rodeur's installation and his struts are to the outside of the windscreen attachments so it looks as though is windscreen is bowed out.

Cheers

Ian S

[RoryD]

Ian;

Yes, I did swap the struts around like you and it fits very solidly without any stresses. The screen worked really well on my 280ml trip on Saturday – I generally rode with helmet visor up/ integrated sunshades down, and there was no wind blast or flies on my face nor buffeting of my head in turbulence ....... in fact I could easily have ridden with no eye protection were it not for the risk of a large insect impact!  I do notice the engine/ transmission noise much more that without the screen - which is both a plus and a minus.  But, when I’d my visor half-down, instead of using the shades, I found there was wind noise from the visor's top-edge so, at my destination, I edged the screen even further up the headlight, and steepened the angle a bit more.

That pushed the air stream up a bit further and cured the wind noise pretty much whatever I did with my visor on the return journey .... and I am still looking over the top of the screen. It does look less integrated with the bike now though – almost like it’s perched on top of the headlamp (see picture), but I'm OK with that. Reading another thread, folk say we should wear ear-plugs to protect our hearing, but I have to say the wind noise I'm experiencing seems less than the noise I get from my ears/ helmet straps when I’m riding my push-bike downhill or on a windy day!

- RoryD

[RoryD]

Old Turkey

......... as both the height difference and different distances of the mirror mounts from the handlebar 'centre' conspire to make it tricky

.... and another factor I found with the fit is that my bike's speedo/headlight cluster isn't actually central on the forks/handlebar either; it's offset a bit to the right hand side! So yes; don't waste too much time trying for an aesthetically-perfect screen fit!
- Rory

[Old Turkey]

Hi Rory

Just read your post - I was away in Melbourne for a couple of days being tested for my M/C licence which thankfully I passed.

I'm verry inclined to dash out to the shed and have  look at the headlight alignment however its blowing and pouring so that can wait.

I think you bike looks fine with the screen fitted as it is and if it gets the results then that's what is important.

The background to your photo reminds me that I spent many holidays in your area at Portmahomack - that was more than 60 years ago when the water supply was from a murky pond up a hill and only three or four taps were supplied which were situated in the main street along the water front.  I was back there 3 or 4 years ago and see that someone has bought and done a restoration job on the old castle on the cliffs.  Its good that it is being looked after now.

Regards

Ian S

[bick]

I got one and fitted it easily. But its a bit low, still some wind issues.
So I drilled new holes and raised it up by 60-100 mm. Much better now.
I also bought cheapo handlebar grip shields (best description I could think of) for about £8 on ebay, had to make an adapter strip of metal to fit it properly. I bought these cus my hands are the only bit that gets cold on my 15 mile ride to work on cold days.