timwest167
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 06:59 PM |
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Windscreen vs Aeroscreen
Still can't decide upon windscreen or aeroscreen after 14 months of building...
What do most people do...
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k33ts
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 07:03 PM |
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make up your mind after sva
if you put a screen on before youll need wipers demister squirters, pain!!!
aeroscreen and helmet if cold, windsreen didnt seem to make alot of difference.
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timwest167
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 07:06 PM |
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Thanks, I've pretty much decided to put the screen on after the SVA, even if its only an aeroscreen - as there is less to test.
How much difference does an aeroscreen make compared to no screen at all?
I've been in a Tiger with a windscreen (no sidescreens) and the buffeting round the screen was almost blowing my glasses off! (not to mention
making my eyes run!)
Thanks,
Tim
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Guinness
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 07:11 PM |
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I think you missed an option or two off your poll:-
"No Aeroscreen, just a helmet"
"No Aeroscreen, no helmet (nutter)"!!
I have been in a couple of Caterhams (at speed!) one with only a windscreen, and one with windscreen and doors. With a windscreen only you get a lot
of buffeting around the sides. With the doors on you get less buffeting but it's not quite the open motoring I like.
Since finishing the Indy I have driven without a windscreen or an aero screen, just with a helmet, or just shades. Only at silly speeds does the wind
make a bike helmet shake or start to lift! So I'm about to fit my MK Aero Screen. Roll on more silly speeds!!
I can't drive in shades alone as my contact lenses blow out at anything more than 30mph. (Don't ask how I know this!)
HTH
Mike
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k33ts
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 07:13 PM |
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buffering is alot less i reckon its better without screen more of an even flow of air if that makes sense.
it a bit like wen you ride a bike without a lid its ok but when your a pilion you cant see crap.
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SixedUp
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 07:44 PM |
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Interesting. I have a windscreen and sidescreens, but have been considering going aeroscreened for some time (the buffeting is supposed to be much
less, as people have already mentioned).
The thing that puts me off is that I prefer to drive all through the winter, and having the option of putting on weather gear (hood, sidescreens etc)
to get me home if the weather changes is pretty attractive.
I might have a go at making a demountable windscreen, and then go aero during the summer, and windscreen during the winter ...
Cheers
Richard
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dern
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 08:05 PM |
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I've had a westfield with a screen and side screens and now one with an aeroscreen and I wear a lid while driving it. I much prefer the
aeroscreen and get much less buffeting. The locost will have an aeroscreen.
I drive all year round in it and while I won't purposely go out in the rain I have removed the carpets and drilled holes in the floor wo rain
isn't an issue. I wear waterproof over trousers and a bike waterproof overjacket and gloves. I can still see better than I could out of the
screened westy and it doesn't smell of damp carpets all the time and the screened car did as the roof always leaked to a degree anyway.
Mark
[Edited on 11/4/06 by dern]
R1 (2003 FI) powered Locost in progress
Fireblade/Impreza
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Phil. S
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 08:26 PM |
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I never had the side screens on my westfield as I didn't like the restricted elbow room. So it was always blustery. I've now fitted an
aeroscreen and I love it. I wear a helmet in the cold weather, but will do with shatter proof wraparound sunglasses for local driving when the weather
warms up. I drive mine all year round. I removed the screen mainly to improve top end on track days. I had to get some helmet spoilers to stop it
lifting at speed and will be investing in a decent intercom so I can speak to my passenger when we're both wearing helmets. Go aero! It's
more fun and cheaper. You can get a nice carbon fibre screen from £80.
"The unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates)
"The unlived life is not worth examining" (Kopp)
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oioi
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 08:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by GuinnessI can't drive in shades alone as my contact lenses blow out at anything more than 30mph. (Don't ask
how I know this!)
HTH
Mike
mike, i spent a lot of time in sunglasses shops testing them. they need to fit really snuggly all the way round the eyes, they work a treat.
otherwise try some willey type goggles - these have foam round them for a tight fit - but look like sunnys. these stop all the wind and the contacts
drying out
OiOi
That is the Curse of Speed which has plagued me all my life I am a slave to it. On my tombstone they will carve,
"IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME." - Hunter S Thompson
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Dale
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 09:57 PM |
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I am still planning on going with a split and heavily raked windscreen as per my hi tech modle.
Dale
 
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Thanks
Dale
my 14 and11 year old boys 22
and 19 now want to drive but have to be 25 before insurance will allow. Finally on the road
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/4/06 at 07:27 AM |
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I've been using aeroscreens with a helmet all winter - the only part that gets cold is my hands! The airflow is a lot smoother.
David
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02GF74
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| posted on 12/4/06 at 01:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
I've been using aeroscreens with a helmet all winter - the only part that gets cold is my hands! The airflow is a lot smoother.
David
gloves?
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/4/06 at 01:50 PM |
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Very thick gloves! Still got cold hands. Just the same as riding a motorbike without a fairing.
I've found some good ones now, but the weather's warmed up. 
David
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