SixSixoh6
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posted November 18, 2009 05:24 PM
Chrome Windscreen
i know alot of you may bash me for this, but i am on the hunt for a certain windscreen. Its a Chrome-Double bubble-Transparent windscreen. The only kind i have been able to find is the junk Sportech one where you cant see through it. i have that screen on my R6 but i wanna be able to see through it when tucked. Has anyone seen any around??? Or if anyone knows if such a thing exists for the 14...ive seen them available for the gen 1 busa
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xtremef4i
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posted November 18, 2009 07:31 PM
Just buy a clear DB and take it to a windo tint shop to have then put the mirrored chrome tint on it. That way, you get the chrome look, and you can still see thru it
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Beondwacko
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posted November 18, 2009 08:28 PM
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Just buy a clear DB and take it to a windo tint shop to have then put the mirrored chrome tint on it. That way, you get the chrome look, and you can still see thru it
That is a GREAT idea !!!!
I'm going to try that one after the holidays when I buy my yearly allotment of parts. It should look good a Puig double bubble in a light smoke with a chrome tint on the inside.
Thanks !!
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BobC
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posted November 19, 2009 04:30 AM
I would choose a clear screen every time. I tried a Busa belonging to someone else a couple of years ago, on the 2 mile runway at Woodbridge where we were holding a top speed meeting. This particular bike had an Iridium screen to go with it's very pretty paintwork. It was simply dangerous, you could not see clearly enough for ultra-high speeds when in a tuck.
I try not to add anything to my bike that doesn't have a performance advantage. Bling is for bike shows.
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Bawls
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posted November 19, 2009 08:03 AM
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I would choose a clear screen every time. I tried a Busa belonging to someone else a couple of years ago, on the 2 mile runway at Woodbridge where we were holding a top speed meeting. This particular bike had an Iridium screen to go with it's very pretty paintwork. It was simply dangerous, you could not see clearly enough for ultra-high speeds when in a tuck.
I try not to add anything to my bike that doesn't have a performance advantage. Bling is for bike shows.
+1... Chrome won't get you home.
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INTIMIDA2OR
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posted November 19, 2009 11:34 AM
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Just buy a clear DB and take it to a windo tint shop to have then put the mirrored chrome tint on it. That way, you get the chrome look, and you can still see thru it
+1 that's what I would've done .
But I would stay with my clear for the street cause I use my windscreen to see out of sometimes.
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xtremef4i
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posted November 19, 2009 02:36 PM
 Edited By: xtremef4i on 19 Nov 2009 22:38
It all depends on the darkness of the chrome tint. I have seen a light chrome tint where you can still eee thru the window, and I have seen a dark tint, where it looks like a mirror. Just do some shopping around for different shades of tint. You could probably buy tint a Wal-Mart and do it yourself as small as the screen is. I have a transparent red screen on my CBR and I love the look of it. Sometimes it does suck to see red everything when I am in a tuck at 100+ mph speeds, but I can still see clearly thru it, just seeing in a different color. I also had a dark smoked screen and it SUCKED to see thru. Tinting the screen is really no different than having a tinted or mirrored helmet visor
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SixSixoh6
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posted November 19, 2009 04:29 PM
yeah i know some people dont like chrome. im doing a mix of both on my bike, so it should perform as it looks. i thought about the tint idea but im not even sure a good tinter could get it go along with the curves of the windscreen.
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xtremef4i
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posted November 19, 2009 04:51 PM
A good tinter can do it. Automotive windoes curve, more so back windows on particular cars. anyway, a GOOD tinter would be able to make two sections of the tint, one for each section of the bubble. if they are good with their knive, they can cut along the edge of where one bubbble stops and where the next begins
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Flame On
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posted November 19, 2009 05:02 PM
The CHP gives us tickets here in CA for blue red or yellow transparent wind screens I had to pay 130.00 and paint it solid
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Bawls
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posted November 19, 2009 08:49 PM
really? Yet a chopper can have a tank that come up 2 feet over your head so that you have to look around it lol. Awesome.
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INTIMIDA2OR
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posted November 19, 2009 09:45 PM
Yeah who ever wrote up the vehicle code for us cali folk was out of their mind!
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INTIMIDA2OR
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posted November 19, 2009 09:48 PM
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yeah i know some people dont like chrome. im doing a mix of both on my bike, so it should perform as it looks. i thought about the tint idea but im not even sure a good tinter could get it go along with the curves of the windscreen.
Well when you get it done post up pics cause :
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BobC
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posted November 20, 2009 12:46 AM
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Tinting the screen is really no different than having a tinted or mirrored helmet visor
Actually there is one difference, you can easily change visors in poor light.
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Stock wheelbase
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2012 ZZR1400 in Golden Blazed Green
Brock CT Full System. etc
Max: 203.1 in 1 mile (so far)
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SixSixoh6
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posted November 20, 2009 03:46 AM
I will post pics whenever I get my entire bike done, that's just one important thing I was wanting to do. Thanks for everyones input.
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68gts2
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posted November 20, 2009 04:26 AM
What ever you do don't send a screen to xxx chrome shop I have already gone that route and an just out about a hundred bucks.it was a bad experience,but I am now a very pleased zero gravity light smoke double bubble owner.
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eklipse636
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posted November 20, 2009 04:33 AM
Post up some pics! No need to wait til the bike is done! You will never "finish" the bike. Share with us..
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SixSixoh6
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posted November 20, 2009 10:19 AM
I will have to start doing that, I barely took any pics when she was together :-( and right now I live in a different town than my bike does..ooooh the agony!!!
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INTIMIDA2OR
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posted November 20, 2009 01:15 PM
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I will have to start doing that, I barely took any pics when she was together :-( and right now I live in a different town than my bike does..ooooh the agony!!!
Oh man nows a perfect time to start taking pics ! You'll have bling no one else has so you have to flaunt it!
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NinjaNick
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posted November 20, 2009 11:42 PM
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really? Yet a chopper can have a tank that come up 2 feet over your head so that you have to look around it lol. Awesome.
haha
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