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BM Steve · Guru

TTR Windshield

pricey · Senior Member

Looks great. What's it made from? Can you quickly detach it for steeper terrain?

petenz · Super Guru

nice looking unit......

BM Steve · Guru

This one isn't really a quick detach version, I will probably build another one using 50mm velcro but it doesn't really look like it's going to be in the way anyway, it's not far enough back

What's it made from is a product called Foamex in Australia which is highly compressed polystyrene, this one is 3mm thick, bendable and you can heat it with a heat gun and bend it any way

I curved this one to fit the "standard windscreen" then bent the tip forward as well

TTRfan · Super Guru

Welcome back Steve wink

The screen looks very professional.

It may be an optical illusion but isn't the top of the screen very close to you? Can't really get the scale.

Brian

nelly · Senior Member

whats the black canister jobbie on the headlight bracket for ? just curious

BM Steve · Guru

TTRfan wrote:
Welcome back Steve
The screen looks very professional.
It may be an optical illusion but isn't the top of the screen very close to you? Can't really get the scale.
Brian

It seems like it will be OK, even if I do hit it and break it foamex doesn't create any sharp edges so should be safe

BM Steve · Guru

nelly wrote:
whats the black canister jobbie on the headlight bracket for ? just curious

Look up Tutoro, it's an automatic chain oiling system, gravity fed, seems to work OK so far, only used it once yet though

peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

Martyn (pug) has the tutor system too. Looks like you have the screen at about the right angle, if you have it too steep an angle the air will come over the screen and straight back down again on you.

BM Steve · Guru

peteBLUEttr wrote:
Martyn (pug) has the tutor system too. Looks like you have the screen at about the right angle, if you have it too steep an angle the air will come over the screen and straight back down again on you.

It's a bit hard to see in the photo but there is a lip it the top that helps a lot as well, you see a lot of after market screens for other bikes with the lip

of course no one makes a screen for the TTR, not that I really care, took about 4 hours to set up but now I can make then in about 15 minutes if I break it

pug · Guru

Nice windscreen we have some of that board at work think we call it foam board plus we have some stuff called white wall board both are about 3mm thick plus a entire rack or 3mm 4mm 6mm Acrylic all colours and a rack of hips vacuum forming sheets in 1mm 2mm 3mm 4mm all colours as well plus the laser cutter an vac former to cut an mould it I just never get the time to do any stuff for myself but if I do I want to vac form a set a set of fork shrouds in the Yamaha blue. I will have to tap Brian up sometime about the lone of a set of fork bottoms to see if it will work

Pug

peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

Yeah I think some white plastic bottom fork shrouds would be quite cool.

TTRfan · Super Guru

I will sort you out some fork legs when you are ready Martyn!

pug · Guru

Will see you about this before the summer Brian I would be wanting the loan of a left and right fork bottom I'm eye ball deep with the A level kid's work at the moment an with the GCSE stuff just about to hit's me as well I don't get to play around at this time of year. the funny thing is blue hip's vac forum plastic is a spot on match for the Yam blue I wonder Who ordered that wink

BM Steve · Guru

Gave it a good test yesterday, rode 350klm, everything from 120kph stretches of tar to really steep gnarly ascents and decents

at 120k's it created an area of fairly "still" behind the visor, at 80k's it was really good

so no need to detach it at all, it just bumped me in the chest a couple of times on really steep accents so I'm going to bend it a bit more vertical, that will fix it

no noticeable vibration, it just sat there even at 120ks

next stage is to make a wider one for more on road protection, probably 75-100mm wider each side

and then a removable lip at the top to add another 100mm for even more protection

rockcrawler · Member

I'm using a Screens for Bikes screen which is TTR specific and it definitely cuts the wind to the chest. With a slight race tuck, 120kph is quiet enough. I did bump it when I dropped the bike off road and basically just one of the rubber mounts on the factory screen popped off. Nothing to worry about at all.

Your hand built one looks great. I'm using a Tutoro too but my reservoir is mounted near the front sprocket.

BM Steve · Guru

rockcrawler wrote:
I'm using a Screens for Bikes screen which is TTR specific and it definitely cuts the wind to the chest. With a slight race tuck, 120kph is quiet enough. I did bump it when I dropped the bike off road and basically just one of the rubber mounts on the factory screen popped off. Nothing to worry about at all.

Your hand built one looks great. I'm using a Tutoro too but my reservoir is mounted near the front sprocket.

Please Send photo's
I'd like to see how you mount the screen and the tutoro.
I'm thinking of using Velcro to mount my screen so it's easy to remove.

Are you using the Turoro oil still, I'm thinking of using some light motor oil, the tutoro stuff is to sticky and attracts dust and really hard to get off
I had to use degreaser 3 times to get it clean around the sprockets and chain

Cheers

Steve

Paul C · Veteran Member

This is the link to the one I made. Smaller but it seems to be doing the job...

http://ttr250.activeboard.com/t61254344/screen/

BM Steve · Guru

I remember seeing that one now, definitely going to add the adjustable height system now

Thanks

rockcrawler · Member

www.screensforbikes.com/shop/yamaha/ttr-250-00-02/

I'm still using the green Tutoro oil. It's a little bit tacky but doesn't fling all over rim. I'll take a photo of the mounting tonight. It's going to get changed as I need space for a clutch arm stop adjuster.

Moo · Senior Member

I use chainsaw oil in my tutoro auto oiler