Flyscreen?

Anybody have one? Does it do any good?

Dart makes a decent looking one. They don't list a screen for the Commando but I'm fairly confident their screen for the T100 Bonnie would fit.

I have one on my Triumph Thruxton and love it keeps the wind off your chest and is great on long trips, I still like the wind in my face so works for me, if you messure from each side of your headlight braket, they problerly make it to fit your bike as the brakets fit on your head light bolts, just email your distant and I am shore they will help you, and they look good on the bike.

Ashley

I just bought a used Dart Fly screen on eBay to fool around with to see if and how it would work on my Commando without the commitment to having to pay full pop if it didn't work.
The fly screen was originally for the Triumph T100. With a little bit of tweaking, coddeling, and fetling, I managed to get it to work remarkably well.
I'll post some pics later. But in the meantime, here is what I did.
I rotated the instrument housings inwards and reinstalled the instruments one mounting hole outwards. This is to keep the faces straight and to avoid interference with the mounting bracket.

I needed to alter the fly screen brackets just a bit by:

1: Enlarging the hole that the turn indicator stalks mount... needed a larger diameter for the stalks to fit through.

2: On the upper half of the brackets, I cut off the area towards the rear of the split (leaving the bottom intact and the forward upper half intact). This left just the forward half of the upper bracket and full bottom. This still left adequate support for the screens upper mounts. This gave me needed clearance for the instrument to not have to be fully rotated inwards, leaving the indicator lamps and the head lamp switch visible and accessible. I have a '74. There weren't any more holes in the instrument housings to let the instrument be mounted so they'd be aligned straight across if full rotated inwards, which they'd have to be if I didn't modify the brackets.

3: I painted black the raw aluminum that was exposed by the bracket carving.

With all that, the screen fit very well, and looks like it was made for the Norton from the beginning.

JD

Thanks guys, great info. I assumed the T100 would fit without alteration; your post, JD, was very helpful. I had no idea about the instruments but it makes sense they would have to be rotated inward when looking at pictures of the screen on a Triumph. I'll have to think about whether I want to do that or not… PICs would be great if/when you get a chance!

pics will be coming late this afternoon / early evening

JD

Pics as promised

EXCELLENT! Thanks!!!!!!

The clocks look fine angled in; I was concerned they would be angled too far to look good and/or would cover the lights but it looks OK. I'm going to order one.

I find that, due to some extent to the somewhat upright riding position, these screens have little to no effect, and the open air is more preferable then being behind it. I am not totally a fair weather rider, but when inclement, they offer little to no protection. And for what its worth, they don't do anything for aesthetics.

This is an old photo and many things have changed since, including the removal of the screen.

All I was looking for was to keep some buffeting off of my chest. I'm a fair weather rider (given a choice), so I wasn't looking for much overall dead space behind the screen, just a little.
Personally I like the look and lines of the Dart on the Commando. Other screens I have seen don't mate up visually as well, but again, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. I like the looks of the Dart on other bikes and I've seen a couple of pics of them on Nortons before I went in this direction. Taste is always subjective. Youz payz yur money and takez yur choice.

JD

I figure that the Dart doesn't cost enough for me to be too concerned. If it doesn't work for me - either function or appearance-wise, I'll just un-install it and write it off as another item I wasted money on…sort of like the dinner out we had a few nights ago - crappy food that cost more than the flyscreen!

As I mentioned, I found a good used one on eBay. It was a buy-it-now or best offer. We negotiated and I paid $60 plus half actual shipping which was around $10.

JD

I agree with Pete they give little or no protection if you ride in an upright position, you do need something larger.

I have one on my Thruxton and it works well as I ride in a lower style.
I use it for long distance trips because without it my Helmet wants to pull my head off.
Around town I remove it, as it has no effect. Simple task although your indicators being part of the installation it will remain a permanent fixture.

You are right at that price give it a go and it looks good on the bike.

I picked up a used one on Ebay but I won't be able to pick it up until I go back to the US in Apr and I won't be coming back to Mexico with it until late June so I won't get to try it until then. If I don't like it, it'll go back on Ebay when I go to the US in Sep…