F1 Windshield UPDATE

[COSpyder]

I just tried to put my new windshield on and the holes don't match up. The curves on the bottom are wrong which I am sure is causing the problem. I just left a message for Marcel but since it's a holiday weekend, I am not sure when he will get it. I know he has been great with his customer service, but I need a shield for a trip to South Dakota on June 2

Well after talking with Marcel today, it turns out that the windshield is longer on one side and to make the holes bigger to make it fit would cause one hole to be about 1/2 inch in diameter which is obviously way too big! So he is sending another and taking this one back. He is a great guy to work with and is very nice, but it seems like everyone should not have to be tweaking the shield once they receive it. He started out with the premise that my bike was crooked and the shield was right but then I mentioned that I had two BRP shields that worked just fine so he then realized that it was the shield. He seems geniunely interested in making it right and promised my shield in time for the SD trip in a week.

 

[Danimal]

Re: F1 Windshield

You really have to push on the F1 in the middle near the bottom... around 5" from the bottom... push in and you can get the holes to line up.

What you will eventually want to do is to trim some of the shield at the bottom to make the curves fit near the bottom. It should mount without doing this... at least enough to give you an idea on how the shield works.

You can mark it with a sharpie marker, remove it and trim off what you need to using a dremel tool.

 

[Spyderryder798]

Re: F1 Windshield

The same thing happened with my F1.
The outer holes lined up, but the inner ones did not.

It literally took me about 3 minutes to figure out how to fix it.

I installed the two outside screws that did line up (but kept them loose), then took a sharpie and marked where the two inside holes were.
I then took a small drill and expanded the two inner holes so that they lined up.
It was a fraction of an inch off, so when I got them to fit, you couldn't tell that the inner holes were no longer perfectly round.

By doing it this way, I avoided having to do any kind of trimming on the bottom of the windshield itself.

 

[bjt]

Re: F1 Windshield

I did my windshield the same as Danimal. Put in two screws that lined up, marked the overlapping areas of Marcel's windshield on the Spyder's windshield mounting area, then I trimmed the windshield to fit. My holes did line up okay once the windshield fit better onto the Spyder. I used a power sander (trim, jitterbug, oscillating, whatever you call them) with about 240 grit sandpaper to remove the overlapping material from the windshield. I tried using a Dremel tool at first but I don't have the right bit to do that type of cutting and it was just as easy for me to sand it away.

 

[COSpyder]

Re: F1 Windshield

One side is longer than the other. So even with making the holes bigger, the shield is lopsided. I might make it fit just to get through the trip. We rode 200 miles today through the mountains and the wind is okay. I am sure I will say that it is a relief when I don't have it on me anymore! I would post a picture of Long's Peak if I could figure out how to do it. It was beautiful today. We rode from Denver on the Peak to Peak Highway, through Estes Park, and then home through Boulder. It was a great ride.

Thanks for the help.

 

[srarndt]

Re: F1 Windshield

One side is longer than the other. So even with making the holes bigger, the shield is lopsided. I might make it fit just to get through the trip. We rode 200 miles today through the mountains and the wind is okay. I am sure I will say that it is a relief when I don't have it on me anymore! I would post a picture of Long's Peak if I could figure out how to do it. It was beautiful today. We rode from Denver on the Peak to Peak Highway, through Estes Park, and then home through Boulder. It was a great ride.

Thanks for the help.

Great ride! I've done it myself, when I lived up there.

 

[COSpyder]

Yes it is! I have done it as a passenger and in a car and I saw things on this ride I had never seen before. For me, the awareness needed to drive vs. what I needed to do to be a passenger has opened up a whole new world of sights to me! I would have thought it was the opposite but I just seem to see more from the front! Even here in Lakewood I am seeing more!

 

[srarndt]

Yes it is! I have done it as a passenger and in a car and I saw things on this ride I had never seen before. For me, the awareness needed to drive vs. what I needed to do to be a passenger has opened up a whole new world of sights to me! I would have thought it was the opposite but I just seem to see more from the front! Even here in Lakewood I am seeing more!

I used to have an office at 550 S. Wadsworth...

 

[COSpyder]

Right down the street...I am at Alameda/Garrison!