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Re: First world problems and bike dilemmas
The screen buffeting problem seems to be an issue on a lot of adventure bikes. A couple of years ago an MCN reporter had an issue with the DL650. This month in Bike they complained about the KTM 790 adventure.
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03-08-19, 06:14 PM | #12 |
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I shortened the MRA screen i fitted to my AL7 due to buffeting and helmet noise, took 75mm off the top and layed it down at a shallower angle to move air down to chest. Tall screen can produce turbulent airflow round your head and make horrendous noise. I am happy to get over 70mpg from without trying too hard. Most bike seats too tall for me, used to have a DRZ400 SM with 35" seat height and could only ever get one foot down.
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if you drilled some small holes in your screen maybe that would equalise the pressure better and cut the buffeting. Not sure whether near the top or near the bottom would work best though.
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My Puig double bubble came with longer bolts, which will accomodate 6mm of spacer easily - I'm going to try 3/8 rubber tap washers with drilled centres to see what difference it makes. Spacing out the bottom two will obviously lower the top of the screen and move it back, where the top two bolts would lift and move forward. May just be enough, or may also not work |
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As Grant mentioned .. the run up to overtakes on A roads and never quite being confident about getting past and back in. Doing the IAM course where they encourage progress and overtakes made me feel even more this way. The Tracer is great for this. A bit better corner handling? I'm already going around corners that I'm familiar with 10 to 20mph faster without really thinking about it on the Tracer, and the stock suspension isn't even that sharp for it. More wind protection to make long journeys at decent speeds less tiring.. altough now realising maybe it's not what I wanted, or at least no working out how I expected with a bike that is meant to be for that purpose?
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I'd prefer smooth air flow to turbulent buffeting. I think it's the broken up design of the front of the Tracer that causes it more than anything. All the gaps and angles of the lights etc. That and the fact the screen sticks out on it's own and isn't attached to anything at the sides. The short screen is better, but I'm basically riding a naked bike that pretends to have fairings when it's fitted with the short screen. Why aren't I just on a naked bike?
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I think the big problem is how upright it is. Contrary to what I thought it would do for comfort, it's actually causing me to hunch and crouch a bit and I keep finding myself trying to lean forwards on corners. The bad back ,especially between my shoulder blades from holding on for any decent length of time at speed isn't really what I expected. I've thought about looking into lower bars, but the space they have to fit into is quite specific with everything that's going on at the front of the Tracer, so not really an option.
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The naked version allows the bars to be rotated, gives a degree of adjustment to the riding position.
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