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Dennsell said:
Hans.. for use against very adverse weather with a full screen..

Sorry mate Daggy is not my concern here. nor will be the dress standard.

Thanks Mate
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Hey not having a go at you Dennis, just never appealed to me ( look like they belong on a hardly) and probaly more concerned they would block air around lower lower torso - reason I love the Rocket was lack of fairing which restricts air flow over body, I only use my big screen on long trips when I am anticipating foul weather but sometimes it can get turbulent not that going with no or with fly screen is any quieter
But I am curious as just how much of an improvement they make ..... might be worth the look
 

That's my problem to ..... Getting older, arthritis is giving me he'll in both hips and knees now.
Daggy was probably a bad choice of word, Sorry Mate, as I said I was not having a go at you, more of a realisation that I am getting older and I used to think of things like the lowers as an old mans and hardly ableson thing.
geez I hate this ageing thing
 
Dennsell said:
No worries Hans all's good,
Now remember if you can to let me know how you are going on the R3 when you get close to 69 Yrs of age young feller, Deal??
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Got to get THAT OLD first.......
 

I run my modified version. It blocks a lot of the air that comes up from above the radiator and starts moving back about where the "Triumph" emblems are on the tank. It hits me on the sides of the head. Causes a lot of wind noise in my ears. Before I cut them down they worked REALLY good. Almost like riding in still air. With my para sail windshield and beetle bags I was having trouble with exhaust fumes in the face, bad enough it would give me a headache. That was with tors. I may cut out a set of full size to try with my maddogs as they are down farther.
 
If I am reading this right in the std form as lowers come you were actually causing a vacuum that suck exhaust gases forward to your face, this was solved by modifying them and now you get the wind buffeting around your helmet.
I that is correct I'll just stick to the slight wind noise buffeting I am getting now as I defiantly don't want to be sucking fumes
 

Through trial and error I came up with lowers I have now. I don't get gassed anymore and they get rid of most of the buffeting. A bit of a compromise. I want to remake them again out of Lexan so I may start out full size and if I get gassed I'll cut them down like the ones I have now.
 
Keep us posted
 
hanso said:
Keep us posted
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Probably won't re-make them until next winter. But I'll definitely make sure anything I learn becomes public record ! I made the first set off this pattern



I extended them up to fill the area they cut out of the windshield for the Triumph running lights that I don't have or want. They worked great until I put the beetles back on, that's when the fume problem started. I then made the same set out of 1/4" plywood for ease of reshaping. I tried holes, louvers, deflector plates and anything else I could think of. Ended up with this design, which is actually the original ones cut in half.



The maddogs I have now sit a lot lower under the beetles so I would like to try the original design again. At full width they stop all the buffeting.
 
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