Gen 1 Rifle Tuning Block

[pista]

Does anybody have one they would like to sell?

Bought a Rifle Sport screen recently and the buffeting is as bad as my stock screen was. Rumor has it the "tuning block" takes care of the problem. I'm willing to try before moving on to another screen...

 

[radiummadman]

Rifle has them for about $50.00, seemed to help on mine w/ a CalSci. For $50.00 can't lose, always can sell to someone

on this forum if you don't like. Funny how some stuff works great for some people and some stuff does not. Guess it is like

beer and women, to each his own. Ya never know until ya try !!

 

[pista]

You are spot on pointing out what works for some doesn't seem to have quite the same effect for others. I did some research and thought a Rifle shield would be the "silver bullet" for resolving the buffeting on this bike. So far that's not the case.

I thought there may be one sitting on a shelf, forgotten, in a garage out there that someone wanted to get rid of. May end up just getting a new one.

 

[redtail]

The rifle has been the answer for me, but without the tuning block, it's not really a "Rifle" screen. I believe it is the set that makes it so.

YMMV

 

[garyahouse]

There's been a couple of them for sale on the forum over the last 3 years for sure, but there few and far between.

Gary

darksider #44

 

[xcsp]

pista, sent you a pm, may have a lead on a tuning block for you.

 

[TomInPA]

I sold one of these a couple years back. It definitely was not what I was looking for. The tuning block laid the windshield back lower, so it interfered with all the electronic stuff I had mounted like GPS and radar detector. The angle sent the air straight into my chest rather than over my head...it solved buffeting if your idea of clear air is no protection.

The answer for me turned out to be a Laminar Lip. YMMV.

 

[gregarious]

I think I still have one . I'll look for it today, and let you know.

Greg

 

[puppychow]

Someone on the forum used to make a replica. Can't remember who..

 

[xcsp]

Someone on the forum used to make a replica. Can't remember who..

ftompa I believe, not sure if he still does or has any available

 

[CAJW]

Someone on the forum used to make a replica. Can't remember who..

ftompa I believe, not sure if he still does or has any available

You're correct, ftompa has been making replicas for awhile. He does take a while to reply as he's not on the forum a lot, but the folks I've referred him to have gotten taken care of. He made me one in 2011 for $25.

 

[puppychow]

Yes, that rings a bell. ftompa is the guy. I bought one from him in 2010. $25 plus shipping if I remember correctly. Pretty fast too (at least for me).

As for my personal experience with the rifle and the tuning block - it works great with both. In the summer I leave the tuning block on under the stock windshield, or now under the Calsci shorty with a laminar lip.

I was going to re-mount the Rifle windshield this winter, but so far a 28 degree ride with the Calsci shorty and laminar went OK, so I might or might not, we will see.

 

[gregarious]

Sorry, haven't been able to find it amongst the large pile of dross. I will let you know if I can find it, but my wife may have tossed it out.

 

[FJRay]

If you can't find one just use some 5/16 nuts and longer screws with some blue loctite. Been working just fine for me for the last ten years and a 100,000 miles.

 

[gregarious]

I just found mine. PM sent.

 

[Fred W]

If you can't find one just use some 5/16 nuts and longer screws with some blue loctite. Been working just fine for me for the last ten years and a 100,000 miles.

Not quite the same Ray, but I did try that trick long before I went with the rifle tuning blocks. It causes the angle of th two brackets to be wrong and that results in stress on the fastener bolts between them. I'm glad they have not flexed and weakened on you and broke with the windsghield flying into your head, but seeing the angles I could not be sure of that so I went the safer route.

BTW - I was the perpetrator who lent ftompa my spare Rifle block for him to (creatively) reproduce. His are/were nicer than the originals.

I do own an ftompa block, but I'm not parting with it. $50 to Rifle seems like a reasonable price.

 

[pista]

If you can't find one just use some 5/16 nuts and longer screws with some blue loctite. Been working just fine for me for the last ten years and a 100,000 miles.

I actually thought of doing that but wondered about not having an angled surface against the screen. Oh well, I took the 'spensive block option. Hoping it works...

 

[pista]

I sold one of these a couple years back. It definitely was not what I was looking for. The tuning block laid the windshield back lower, so it interfered with all the electronic stuff I had mounted like GPS and radar detector. The angle sent the air straight into my chest rather than over my head...it solved buffeting if your idea of clear air is no protection.
The answer for me turned out to be a Laminar Lip. YMMV.

I like the physics behind this option. This is the next step if the tuning block doesn't prove to be a solution.