around 4pm orders came through so I took off on the final run to see if this Hitchcock's flyscreen was as good as I thought it was a couple months ago. wind conditions were pretty strong for here in the tablelands country and gusty up to about 25 mph. usually I wouldn't ride under these touchy condition as its more trouble to me than its worth.
first of all once on the road I could hear a much deeper note from the exhaust and I had my earplugs in too. first thought was the header pipe seal had shit itself. but not the case no doubt it was the flyscreen channeling the very deep exhaust note back towards me. not really sure how loud or how deep it would sound without the earplugs but I'd say -you'd get the message pretty quick...lol
anyway once out of town and on to the open highway I sat the right royal enfield with the right royal fuckwit riding it on a 60 mph cruise and it was doing it pretty easy. on this trip rather than rely on a speedometer reading I bought along my suunto gps watch and as always its very accurate and takes a gps reading every few seconds.
thankfully this was a complete turnaround compared to my first run earlier today. my bike was running well and easily slicing through the head winds plus I was buffeted by some pretty good side winds. here a map of the chosen 40 mile route
once off the main highway and onto a little used back road I was able to move it along in a more spirited riding fashion. when you consider the head and crosswinds I had to deal with I think this move alone was a pretty good achievement.
just for the record outside temp was about 60 degrees and just to see if the flyscreen kept the chill factory off me I rode only with a t shirt and leather jacket ...plus the friggin helmet etc.
I've been out on days like this before and after 10 miles or so I;d just say stuff it and turn around and head for home. but today was different and that flyscreen was indeed DOING IT'S INTENDED JOB!
actually very little wind was hitting me when I was riding straight into the head winds and once when I lifted the visor on the open face -there was not much difference either.
so there is no doubt the headlight peak combined with the grille and tape had stuffed up the wind cheating ability of the Hitchcock's flyscreen and once I had removed the crap it was back to how it should be performing faultlessly under very difficult and windy conditions.
what about the performance side. well again it didn't appear to make much difference if I was riding into the wind or with cross wind the bike just performed really well plus I still had good pick up.
one section I did a quick run to a bit over 70 mph gps reading and that's probably 75 or more on the speedometer
and I mean quick and if I didn't have such low miles I would have let it rip a bit further!
plus it handled the burst very very easy and I tried this trial run while pushing into the headwind too.
so I stand by what I said originally. I think this is a good 5 mph add on and a great product for cutting into the breeze plus it looks
it it worth the money.... $260 landed in Oz to sum maybe the tag is a bit high but riding with it today if they asked $500 -I'd buy it!....lol its a bargain.
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