Me again
Well sorry to say I've been getting a little bit tee'd off with the DT, IT'S SO LOUD TO RIDE, I CAN HARDLY HEAR ANYTHING OVER THE BARMY LOUD WINDNOISE FROM THE POINTLESSLY TOO HIGH SCREEN. Sorry about the shouting it's the noise ya see. I had to take the screen off until I had a chance to do this to it.
Now that's gawn tis positively quiet again, I'm not kidding the wind turbulence from the flip up top of screen was blasting the noise directly at my visor making it rattle and bang really loud, I wear swimming ear plugs routinely on the bike and it was unpleasant with them in! last week I did a 50 mile highway run to see my Dad and show him the new wheels. blimey coming back I had to go the slow way cause of the banging row.
So no more
now. I've cut off approx 3 inches (75-80mm) in an arc, lovely now, wind noise is much smoother rushing noise without the banging from the turbulence, I was intending to have a bit more off but feeling around with a bare hand in front off my face/shoulders the wind stream now is hitting me on the jacket collar, which will do for the present I think cant say as the drop in hight has made any difference to the wind pressure on my chest at speed.
and cant put it back can I.
If your wondering how the smooth curve was developed and cut? simples, take the bottom bolt that holds the screen out replace it with one long enough to tie some string around. tie a loop at the end where you want to make an arc, ball point pen in loop and voila perfect arc.
I cut the screen with a Dremel tool with one of those little circular saws mounted running at the slowest speed that didnt catch and try to kick out of the cut, take it slooow you want to cut rather than melt, I left a bit in the middle and at each end to stabilise the pieces while cutting the majority of the cut, once through carefully cut each end free (dont let saw kick it might crack plastic:-[ ) then the bit left in middle being very careful once again. clean up with a flapwheel for time being to remove the sharp edges. When you are happy with how much you have removed (you cant put it back
) finally finish up by hand with a bit of flat wood with some emery paper glued on to sand along the edge to smooth away the saw marks. As you can see from the pic I've yet to finish the edge on mine. Last thing, use masking tape to prevent scratches from sliding the Dremel about on the screen and when your flapwheeling/sanding .
