Wondering when mounting your fork deflectors are they straight, slight rear facing angle or sharp rear facing? I have a set I'm putting on tomorrow. I already bought them so please comments about brand X being better aren't needed unless it's best angle
One thing about the fork-mounted deflectors is you can use that angle to your engine's advantage such as during the summer you can have the outer edge more forward which will deflect more air to the motor. Some people just take them off in the summer but I found them to help with the wind coming up from below so I use them year round.
In the cooler months they can be straight or slightly angled back so most the wind it deflects goes out and around the riders legs.
If you can find the aftermarket deflectors someone was making for a while that use the MS brackets; you might give them a try. They were $27 new. Maybe WD can be urged to make these.
If you're running the tubular crash bars you can use the adjustable fairing wings and the fork lowers together to get some pretty good wind management results.
For a while I ran the bike without any crash bars and it does look good like that BUT, and that's a 'big but', you risk trashing the fairing if the bike is even just dropped. Much worse if there's a slide involved.
Well......that was so far the bast $100 I've spent on the bike!! The buffeting is gone. I was just riding with my helmet visor open and the air didn't try to remove the visor! No more blurred vision at all. The clamps are off and painted black waiting for them to dry.
Would these fork clamps work for the small universal deflectors that Bob linked too? I am dug into my old Enduro rebuild right now but I can add this to my winter time projects.
Vin glad to hear your buffeting is gone. Just my comment but when I had mine on, I had them turned the other way so the curve on the one end was up at the fairing and the narrower portion down low..just my thoughts.
I flipped them and the clamps were dry so we'll see how they do. I can't imagine they would do anything but work good especially having the wide part at the top. These deflectors are looong and just barely fit.
Oh! I didn't know they came out with long ones like that. Smart to paint the clamps black too. If they are too long you can cut them down with a scroll saw or a fine tooth band saw - carefully. Then sand and buff the edges.
They really aren't that big the photos are deceiving but they are long. When the shock compresses the deflector misses the lower forks by maybe 1/8" just like turning the front wheel the deflectors miss the crash bar by 1/8".
Yep. Those fit the bike pretty well. Much better than the smaller ones they had before. Do they still list the smaller kind? No need to look it up if you don't know.
I have meaning to get a set of lower deflectors for my XR but was not about to shell out $300 for the Victory ones. I like the ones you put on but they may be too big for a XR with the OEM windshield with the "sideburns".
vindex1963,
Thanks for the response. It looks like you have a flip windshield, soft lowers and the wind deflectors. Did it take all of that to fix the buffeting?
I have a XR so it is a little different but the pleather lowers only keep my feet warm, they actually increase buffeting for me with my short OEM windshield (XR). Deflects air straight up and under my helmet.
Took the crash bar covers off and turned the fairing air deflectors in and no buffeting still but a nice air flow on me. The temps hit 80+ and the fairing air deflectors create a nice smooth breeze.
Do you plan on leaving the fork deflectors on for the summer? I have the Midwest ones and they really work,maybe too well for the summer temps here in Arizona. I took mine off, I'm sure the motors fine but it sure got hot in the cockpit.
I took them off so I'll see if the Vic close outs will do the same as the fork deflectors did. I never did get used to the way they looked but like the effect so I ignored them.
Now that I can look past the deflectors look how chipped to **** the upper and lower shocks are!!! Way to go Vic with cheap crappy finishes.
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