What’s up with the big Yamaha storage boxes? Sacrilege!! ?
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Ya, kind of but correct, you toss the lower black part, which is a pain to mount anyway. About an inch gap, so not bad. I found the old YXZ windshield kits works pretty well with a couple simple bracket changes. I'm not sure about the new 19' YXZ windshield due to the hinge changes.
I rarely ever wanted my YXZ's to have the windshield sealed on the hood and always had them in the Tab mounted position when folded down so I was not bummed at all to toss the large black hood mount. Therefore, I just used some 2" generic aluminum light bar brackets ( Maybe $6 each) that I cut and mounted into the existing Talon body panels and mounted the YXZ plastic tabs into them. The aluminum light brackets for the rubber straps, I just cut (see picture). Ironically, installing this on the Talon took about an hour, versus 4 hours mounting it on my YXZ with that stupid hood attachment that had a trazillion plastic tabs. On the top I just have a EVA rubber pad, and use another cut light bar bracket. The rotation hinges are just mounted thru the roof, into a plate that is held my another metal 2" bracket on the top tube of the frame. Nothing fancy, but I wanted to see how it worked first before I cleaned this up. Sadly, it fits "stronger" and more stout than it did on the YXZ but not quite as clean. However, I feel it out performs the Talon windshields that fold forward, that will always cause dust to suck in from the back, which I have no tolerance for. Also, I don't want a windshield that can't handle 90mph, and so far I have not ripped this one off yet at high speeds.
If I get some time I will design this up in 3D and cut some nice billet CNC brackets. I have enough friends that are bugging me for this now they have seen this in action it's probably worth the 3D CAD time..
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