Pexi's Moto Guzzi Weblog

Windshields revisited

Troups, if you are considering whether to buy or not to buy these windshield, don't take my word as a "truth". It's better to try to try before you buy (is this an english poem, eh?).

My comments on the previous post are highly subjective, your experience with the same screens may be totally different - it depends on many things, how tall you are, what kind of helmet you are wearing, how the bike suspension is set up, whether it's full moon or not, etc... I don't know what. I've read many positive comments about these screens and I know there are many happy Guzzisti riding with these plastic add-ons. Sadly, I'm not one of those.

Anyway, I might try lowering the screen for 1100, whenever I have nothing better to do. The turbulence problem decreases if I sit "high", my torso fully extended, so it might be that taller people are comfortable with the 1100 screen as-is. Anyway, two of my friends who have ridden on motorway with the 750 with the touring windshield attached, have both commented about the scary wobbling effect of the screen.

I know you all know all this, but I'm so unbelievably politically correct person, that I had to write this out. I kind of feel better myself like this.

About the windshields

A short answer to questions regarding the windshields*): they are pure crap. The one on the 1100 is unusable over 120 km/h due to the turbulence (heavy turbulence) and the one on the 750 causes scary wobbling when the speed reaches 130 km/h.

Of course, without a windshield I need to excercise my abdominals, when riding on motorways, but that is good: it makes me stronger and is easily compensated with beer in the evening.

*): optional, Moto Guzzi OEM "touring windshields", pictured below

Less than two weeks

My building project is almost finished, or at least the most hectic times are over, I can freely ride in and out of my yard now and within two weeks we'll start our motorcycle trip through Europe. The Millau bridge, Bourgogne, Alsace, then Germany, Denmark, over the Baltic Sea by the bridge to Sweden and by boat to Finland. Life looks good!

Last Saturday I put new tires (Michelin Pilot Activ) on the 750 and previously installed a TomTom Rider GPS appliance on the 1100. Both bikes are quite ready for the trip, yet I'm not quite sure if I'm going to put a new set of Metzeler Z6s on the 1100 before the trip - the rear tire is certainly over its middle age crisis, so...  let's see.