BigNorm
Boobie Inspector
I have been looking at getting a new windshield. I really liked the look of the clearview shield but I didn't want to shuck out $250. My solution was to buy a 25x28" piece of 1/4" plexiglass and go for it.
The first step was to take all the hardware off the stock windshield. I then cut out a piece of cardboard 25x28 and sketched out a template using the old shield to mark the holes. I cut the edges using my first cut to mark the other 3 and then cut out all the edges. Then I taped my template onto the plexiglass.
I then traced my template onto the plexiglass. I took a 3/8 drill and drilled strait through my template all the holes I had marked.
I then cut the plexiglass with a jigsaw with a metal blade on the slowest setting. I then sanded the edges using a hand sander. This is where stuff got difficult. I had read where guys on smaller bikes with smaller windshields would just throw there shield in the oven at 100 degrees for 10 minutes and then set the shield on a mold. My shield is to big to throw in the oven. So I go outside and fire up my gas barbeque I held the shield over the heat and little by little I was able to bend the 1/4" plexiglass. It was a royal Pita and took me hours until I could attach the hardware. It is done now and from the bracket above the headlight to the top measures 20 inches. I still have head buffeting even though I drilled 3 half Inch holes above the stock bracket. I'm thinking of getting a madstad bracket and putting another shield over the one I just made but that is for another day.
The first step was to take all the hardware off the stock windshield. I then cut out a piece of cardboard 25x28 and sketched out a template using the old shield to mark the holes. I cut the edges using my first cut to mark the other 3 and then cut out all the edges. Then I taped my template onto the plexiglass.
I then traced my template onto the plexiglass. I took a 3/8 drill and drilled strait through my template all the holes I had marked.