windscreen slots

[Tumu Rock]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:59:38 -0400, Patrick Sprague wrote: I'm VERY particular of who gets on my bikes ( no matter what make or how much it cost me) and MORE SO on Who's bike I do check rides on. > >Andy Chesley I agree completely. Someone could borrow my truck and wreck it and I'd be really inconvenienced 'cause i depend on it's use every day, BUT it's just a truck. Bikes are personal. I worry more about what might happen to someone while on my bike than what might happen to my bike while someone's on it. (Of course, until I gave it the first few off-road dings, NOBODY got on it but me. Now that it's broken in I just request a $5000 deposit returnable upon return of my bike intact). ;') dat brooklyn bum _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html

[Darrel & Deanna]

A fellow m/c safety instructor summed it up nicely: "loaning your bike is tantamount to loaning your wife..." Darrel A12 'avenger' From: Tumu Rock

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:59:38 -0400, Patrick Sprague wrote: I'm VERY particular of who gets on my bikes ( no matter what make or how much it cost me) and MORE SO on Who's bike I do check rides on. > >Andy Chesley

[Alex Sfakianos]

I have experimented with slots a little. I believe their purpose is to equalise air pressure on both sides of the windscreen. With a larger screen/fairing the wind pressure on the front creates an area of low pressure behind it. As conditions change, side winds, direction changes etc. the bubble of low pressure air changes shape and 'sucks' you in various directions. At speed behind a good 'screen, like the old BMW R100RS' the buffeting and noise can be damm tiring. I have tried cutting slots in smaller screens and found no discernable difference, I don't think it will have any effect unless you are really behind the screen and protected from direct wind blast. Alex