caillou
New Member
I love my new bike but something I do not is the windscreen/GPS holder which is not strong enough and which moves a lot with wind and bumps, making the GPS sometimes difficult to read.
I was about to move the GPS to the handlebar and decided it was stupid to have a well positioned holder and not using it.
I had a look at the way the GPS/Windscreen was done and realised that a single bracket could easily fix it (when you just push with your finger on the windshield, it stops moving with very low effort).
So I decided to make a bracket to fix the problem.
We can easily use the top of the windshield holder and and at the bottom, the holes for the wind deflector to attach the bracket. I do not have wind defelctor yet (not sure I need those) but I'm confident we can have both the bracket AND the wind deflector installed together.
A simple aluminum bracket will make it.
I had to bend it a bit to clear the plastic part of the windshield holder.
Clearance test to make sure it clears the handguard when handlebar is completely turned: there is a 3 to 4 mm clearance. Yes!
Both surfaces are not parallel so I had to slightly bend the bracket for a perfect fit.
First test: perfect fit.
Second bracket (which of course needs to be bent the other way):
Ready for a first road test.
Result: excellent, the windshield does not swing anymore and GPS remains perfectly stable. It is very efficient, more than I was expecting. To finish the job, I will make some holes on the brackets and paint it black so it should look pretty much stock.
It is not as neat at a Touratech or Alt Rider product (it does not exist anyway...) but it is low cost, high efficiency and I'm proud I have done it myself. By the way, anybody can easily do it, it is very simple.
My brackets are painted and I will just put a clear on the matt paint to make it scratch resistant, and will put some pictures of the finish product.
I was about to move the GPS to the handlebar and decided it was stupid to have a well positioned holder and not using it.
I had a look at the way the GPS/Windscreen was done and realised that a single bracket could easily fix it (when you just push with your finger on the windshield, it stops moving with very low effort).
So I decided to make a bracket to fix the problem.
We can easily use the top of the windshield holder and and at the bottom, the holes for the wind deflector to attach the bracket. I do not have wind defelctor yet (not sure I need those) but I'm confident we can have both the bracket AND the wind deflector installed together.
A simple aluminum bracket will make it.
I had to bend it a bit to clear the plastic part of the windshield holder.
Clearance test to make sure it clears the handguard when handlebar is completely turned: there is a 3 to 4 mm clearance. Yes!
Both surfaces are not parallel so I had to slightly bend the bracket for a perfect fit.
First test: perfect fit.
Second bracket (which of course needs to be bent the other way):
Ready for a first road test.
Result: excellent, the windshield does not swing anymore and GPS remains perfectly stable. It is very efficient, more than I was expecting. To finish the job, I will make some holes on the brackets and paint it black so it should look pretty much stock.
It is not as neat at a Touratech or Alt Rider product (it does not exist anyway...) but it is low cost, high efficiency and I'm proud I have done it myself. By the way, anybody can easily do it, it is very simple.
My brackets are painted and I will just put a clear on the matt paint to make it scratch resistant, and will put some pictures of the finish product.