FJRocket
Doctor Throckenstein !!!
It finally came. The box should have said Home Depot, or Andersen Windows! I opened the container and extracted my new cee BAYley WINDOW. That thing is not a windshield, it's more like one of those bullet proof plates that surrounds the Pres or Pope at a speech. In the winter, I could remove it and go sledding with it.
Man, that thing is BIG. Sitting behind that 4+4 makes me feel like I'm in the living room looking out from my room in quiet comfort. When it's in the full up postion, I feel like I'm looking right through the center of it. And it's kind of intimidating. It's taller than me, even standing up (on the ground, not the pegs)!
When the shield is full down, the wind barely hits above my scalp and at my pinkie fingers. Major blockage. Sweet! Raise it up about 3/4 inch and there it is! The beloved Cone Of Silence! Well, Ok, it's not the full cone sitting in the driving postition, but almost. The wind noise however is cut by half over my GIVI flip. Very Nice.
Also, when the shield is full down, it's intimidating. Have you seen how thick these babies are? Looks like a full 1/4 inch or more thick! WOW! Clarity/distorition is great, too. Excellent quality.
But I'm thinking about those dinky plastic screws. What if I have a bird strike? I think the goose won't go THROUGH the shield, but because of the size and weight of the shield that thing is going to break off. And I have this image of goose guts accompaniing the Odd Job Death Slice as the shield comes back at me when those dinky plastic screws disintegrate on impact. It's bad enough watching the shield wobble/buffett in the wind. I'm looking at it thinking.. at 100 mph, those dinky plastic screws are going to snap, and there's the Odd Job decapitation thing again. Yikes!
So I've decided I don't like my new Bay Window. It does give me that barcalounger comfort when slightly engaged upwards while riding in the moping mode. But I think the thing is a death trap. Waiting to detach and cause serious bodily injury. TOOOOooo big. TOOOooo thick. Too scarey.
Ok, just kidding. The thing is great, but man is it big. I rode behind it most of the time with the shield in the full down postion. I'm short enough that I don't NEED to bring it up, not much at all, anyway. But coming across the river bridge last night at dusk, that upright shield sure did kick the shit out (literally) of about a million bugs.
Just glad there weren't any birds around.
Man, that thing is BIG. Sitting behind that 4+4 makes me feel like I'm in the living room looking out from my room in quiet comfort. When it's in the full up postion, I feel like I'm looking right through the center of it. And it's kind of intimidating. It's taller than me, even standing up (on the ground, not the pegs)!
When the shield is full down, the wind barely hits above my scalp and at my pinkie fingers. Major blockage. Sweet! Raise it up about 3/4 inch and there it is! The beloved Cone Of Silence! Well, Ok, it's not the full cone sitting in the driving postition, but almost. The wind noise however is cut by half over my GIVI flip. Very Nice.
Also, when the shield is full down, it's intimidating. Have you seen how thick these babies are? Looks like a full 1/4 inch or more thick! WOW! Clarity/distorition is great, too. Excellent quality.
But I'm thinking about those dinky plastic screws. What if I have a bird strike? I think the goose won't go THROUGH the shield, but because of the size and weight of the shield that thing is going to break off. And I have this image of goose guts accompaniing the Odd Job Death Slice as the shield comes back at me when those dinky plastic screws disintegrate on impact. It's bad enough watching the shield wobble/buffett in the wind. I'm looking at it thinking.. at 100 mph, those dinky plastic screws are going to snap, and there's the Odd Job decapitation thing again. Yikes!
So I've decided I don't like my new Bay Window. It does give me that barcalounger comfort when slightly engaged upwards while riding in the moping mode. But I think the thing is a death trap. Waiting to detach and cause serious bodily injury. TOOOOooo big. TOOOooo thick. Too scarey.
Ok, just kidding. The thing is great, but man is it big. I rode behind it most of the time with the shield in the full down postion. I'm short enough that I don't NEED to bring it up, not much at all, anyway. But coming across the river bridge last night at dusk, that upright shield sure did kick the shit out (literally) of about a million bugs.
Just glad there weren't any birds around.