Chopped and painted windshield

I am sure similar posts exist, but I thought I would post a few pics of my project this afternoon. Chopped my windshield down, and painted the inside black. The wind used to hit me right in the helmet at freeway speeds, making it quite noisy. I cut it as low as I could, jigsaw first, followed by a rough (60 grit) sanding block, 180 and finally 400. Several coats of rustoleum black enamel spray paint. The paint wanted to pool up on the plastic, but after several thin coats it looks great. Wind is much lower on the freeway, around my chest, making the helmet much quieter. I may get a tall touring shield for the winter, keep this shield on for the warmer months.

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Cheers

 

The Rustoleum may stick especially if you scuffed the painted surface some. If not, try peeling the old paint off rather than using stripper.. Scuff with 400, prime with Krylons Fusion and then the Rustoleum or more Fusion. Two componnent auto paint works a treat too. More bucks and more trouble but it works.

A little trick to cutting thin plastic is to start with a strip of masking tape, inscribe your line on the tape and then make the cut using the "plastic" blade on the jigsaw.

(measure twice

 

Less wind protection? I am not down with that program.

Jose

 

The guy is only about 4 ft tall so he is still well protected.

 

Cars have excellent wind protection I hear.

 

There was one dude here that mounted on of those bigass plastic trunks on the front of his bike that he said offered total wind protection and you could put lots of stuff in it too.