bamaTrider wrote:
Alepel wrote; My windshield that I had been bragging about being over sized and protective faired poorly in the rain. I've got to go back to the stock windshield or cut my ClearView down so that my visor gets some draft to clear the rain.
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You don't have to cut down your windshield, you just need to buy yourself a wiper that fits onto your index finger. You use you finger wiper to clear your face shield when needed.

http://www.denniskirk.com/jsp/product_catalog/Product.jsp?skuId=&store=&catId=&productId=p3407619&leafCatId=&mmyId=

http://www.getgeared.co.uk/Glove_Rain_Wiper

Thank you Stan for this information. Actually Dawn sent me a terrific DIY article on making one of these visor wipers and I looked in earnest for the materials the night before my departure. I couldn't find the velcro I needed. It had to be the kind that can wrap around your finger and itself and cling to itself.

Truth be told Stan it wouldn't have worked for me. Clearing my visor would only eliminate one layer of rain blocking my view. I need to eliminate the obstruction of my view from the rain on my Clearview windshield. At one point on my trip home in the rain I sat on my bike cover which was stuffed into its pouch. This gave me just a little added height so that I could look over my ClearView windshield. It proved to me that I've got to lower the windshield or raise my height above the top edge so I am looking over the windshield not through it.

I contacted 44ace and asked him why he installed the ClearView on the bike I bought from him. He told me that he sat so tall on that bike that the stock windshield could not protect him from all the buffeting. So he bought an over sized ClearView and he made an adapter to push the windshield forward so as to give it added height. Up until now I always liked this because it protected me so well from buffeting.

I have sort of reasoned that I want to keep the ClearView but cut it down across the top. I'm doing this because I like the feature that the ClearView is wider as well as taller than the stock one I have. What perplexes me is how to cut the top. I do not know if I should cut it rounded like the stock one or if I should cut it with a flat edge. Is there logic in a rounded edge versus a flat edge. Some of the Harley windshields I see have a straighter edge across the top of the windshield and I am wondering what is the benefit of doing this. Anyone know?


alepel

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