I somehow have this habit of tweaking (butchering) things to have them function exactly the way I want. Even a newly acquired fine motorcycle can’t escape that fate. I cut 2 inches off the top of the shield on my Concours just one day after getting it in my hands. Of course its stock shield was just plain horrible. Instead of putting on a regular aftermarket shield like everybody else, I had more fun in trying out my version and finally ended up having a terrible looking but perfectly working 4″x8″ extension bolted on it.
The ST1300 was lucky, it had electrically adjustable shield which worked fine till I started 2-up riding. Ofcourse an aftermarket shield could help, but the bike had to go so I could have my goldwing.
The wing has a manually adjustable shield, but the lowest position was still too high for me to look over. So it went through the same fate today. I was intimidated about doing this on such a fine machine, but after watching a few pics on someone’s blog, it was a matter of pulling the shield out, putting masking tape on and merrily using the jigsaw. The result came out pretty well. Time will tell how good this mod turns out to be.
Pic: cutting the goldwing shield
Update (7-Aug): The modified shield is working perfectly in town and not too noisy on the freeway. I can just pull it out to full height for the long trips if I want to ride without earplugs. So far this has been the best comfort mod on the bike.
Poor Goldie - u r ruthless, barbaric I say
Here we are dreaming of a Goldie in far future - and there you a making wind shield Kheema