Royal Enfield Bullet 350 DIY : Adding a Windshield, Crash bar & Heel toe shifter

I person ne'er had a motorcycle fitted with a ample touring surface / windshield before. I was calved and brought up successful Kerala, and we person nary wintertime down there. Also, precocious speeds and the resultant upwind blast ne'er bothered maine erstwhile I was younger.

We bash person due winters successful Japan though, and for motorcycling, adjacent autumn and outpouring tin get beauteous cold. As I americium into my 40s, I besides thought I could whitethorn beryllium walk a spot much clip successful the saddle connected road rides without tiring myself out, if I kept the upwind from straight hitting my chest.

Touring Screen

Aesthetically, the RE GMA touring surface is simply a love-or-hate affair. Personally, I deliberation it suits a motorcycle similar the Meteor / Super Meteor, but not the Classic oregon Bullet. Having said that, I bash consciousness that it is simply a subtle design, and anticipation that it volition turn connected maine implicit time. At the moment, I don't emotion it, neither bash I hatred it. I bash expect to person immoderate flak for doing this though!

RE GMA Part No.: KXA00147 Touring surface with fixings (Meteor uses a antithetic portion number)

I besides got a brace of replacement alloy mounting brackets for a mates of fragile integrative ones that travel successful the RE GMA kit. Make definite to bid two.
Buying link: https://accessories.hitchcocksmotorc...&category=sub3

Likes:

• Works good astatine little speeds (up to 60 km/hr) for my tallness (167 cm)
• Height is adjustable (needs an allen cardinal though)
• Inoffensive plan (subjective)
• Decent physique quality, but for a mates of integrative mounting brackets

Dislikes:

• Potential upwind sound astatine precocious speeds, particularly with full-faced helmets (will update this aft a mates of road rides)
• Cannot usage a regular motorcycle screen (I person a 170cm gangly motorcycle tent, truthful this is ok)
• Have a feeling the surface could prime up scratches if 1 is not truly careful
• A spot much adjustability would person been bully (too overmuch spread betwixt the bottommost of the surface and the headlight nacelle)

Tools Required:

• Ring spanners (13mm and 14mm)
• Allen cardinal set

Fitment time: 30 minutes

Difficulty: Medium (normally easy, but needs other patience and attraction to interruption anything)

Installation guide:
https://accessories.hitchcocksmotorc...sFap5&_xt=.pdf

Alloy mounting brackets successful metallic from Hitchcocks and the archetypal RE integrative brackets successful achromatic tin beryllium seen successful this picture.

Fitment:

Step 1: Hand assemble the 4 attachments and fasteners shown above

Step 2: Gently hole the rubber grommets into the mounting holes connected the surface and hole the 4 attachments.

Step 3: Slowly insert the 2 mounting rods into the attachments.

It is simply a spot tricky to get the mounting absorption close astatine this stage. As you tin spot successful the last pictures, I got this incorrect the archetypal time.

Step 4: Cover the substance vessel with a fluffy cloth (bath towel successful my case, lol) to forestall scratches / dents from fasteners oregon tools.

On my bike, the trader had stuck the antenna for the toll postulation instrumentality connected the grip barroom apical cover. I removed this temporarily and cautiously removed the goo from the double-sided sticker utilizing a sticker remover spray.

I could not instrumentality excessively galore pictures aft this. Apologies successful advance. I was doing it unsocial and the handle-bar and surface were going successful each directions. If you person a 2nd brace of hands to assistance you out, usage them by each means!

Caution:

• At this step, determination is simply a precocious anticipation that the grip barroom turns implicit and thing could deed the substance tank. Be other cautious!

Step 5: Loosen the 2 bolts nether the grip barroom apical screen (close to the tank), but bash not instrumentality them out.

Step 6:Loosen and instrumentality retired the 2 bolts connected apical of the grip barroom apical cover. These volition beryllium replaced with the caller allen cardinal bolts successful the kit.

Step 7: Fix the mounting brackets loosely (you volition request to set the predisposition later).

Step 8: Gently insert the rods into the brackets (here I recovered that the predisposition I had chosen was incorrect).

Step 9: Tighten everything up aft ensuring that the surface is aligned on the halfway axis of the motorcycle and its tallness is arsenic per your requirement. Of course, the tallness tin beryllium adjusted astatine a aboriginal stage.

Step 10: Stand backmost and respect the fruits of your hard work.

I anticipation my long-form articles are not becoming excessively boring!

I americium blessed to reply immoderate questions.

With these modifications, I deliberation I person yet succeeded successful turning my motorcycle into a grandpa's dream. I volition beryllium turning 43 this week, and the small Bullet is accelerated turning retired to beryllium my retirement-proof motorcycle.

Cheers and thrust safe! See you successful the adjacent one!