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Posted by pcarrell
- January 17, 2013, 21:48:51 PMThe F&S windshield has 4 small bolts (2 on each side) to remove that hold the shield in place to the not so easy to remove brackets that attach under the risers. If the tools are handy, maybe a whole 2 minutes to remove. It also has built in height adjustment (sliders) that is super simple. When the shield itself is removed you're still left with a bracket, but it's not a super ugly bracket. It's pretty inconspicuous.
The National shield has the quick detach feature, but it has to leave some sort of bracket on the bike, and I have no idea what that looks like.
Posted by darkdrifter
- January 17, 2013, 21:24:40 PMdoes anybody know if theres a windshield for the drifters with a "quick detach" feature?
I don't have the spotlights, nor will never have them.
If nobody knows of a quick detach, how long does it take to remove the rifle or the fire and steel?
The idea is to only use the windshield on days with possibility of rain.
quickness of installing and removing would be very beneficial
just did some searching.
this says it has the quick detach feature.
anybody know if this would work?
http://www.bikerhaven.net/servlet/the-9979/NATIONAL-CYCLE-SWITCHBLADE%C2%AE-/Detail
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 16, 2013, 21:09:41 PMif you look there should be about a 2" adjusment slot for the windshield to move up or down.
Posted by DriftinGirl
- January 16, 2013, 21:02:43 PM 
Quote from: pcarrell on January 16, 2013, 20:57:14 PMYou can always cut off, but it REAL hard to add!
LOL ....suppose so.
Posted by pcarrell
- January 16, 2013, 20:57:14 PMYou can always cut off, but it REAL hard to add!
Posted by DriftinGirl
- January 16, 2013, 20:49:00 PM 
Good to see you like the Rifle windshield Pilgrim. I am leaning toward it also. Have spent the past few days following up on the suggestions/leads you guys have given,(thanks) and educating myself about pros and cons of windshield in general. Now that I'm nearing a decision...I find I left the paper with height measurement back in Nova Scotia! Anybody out there 5' 6" with a corbin seat - what height is your windshield?? Or anyone in southern NM who would let me sit on their bike and measure again?? Or can they be cut later if too tall??
Posted by chief
- January 16, 2013, 17:33:10 PMI have Rifle replacement plastic on mine with the old style light bar... spots mimic the headlight.
We have one or two of the flat backed spotlight bars for sale which look like they would work as well.Rifle also sells a light bar adapter kit for use with their windshields. $29
http://rifle.com/Lightbar%20Adaptor%20Kit%20Drifter-P2166.aspx
Posted by Pilgrim
- January 16, 2013, 16:56:05 PMI received the Rifle shield today and installed it. Installation was easy and took me about 30 min.
The windshield looks great on the bike and you were correct PC, the nobar light installation will be impossible without adding brackets. I think i am going to keep the windshield though and make brackets out of aluminum like those in the first gadget link you posted . I like these brackets because it will get my lights forward and even with the front of the headlight and they will also clear the windshield. I haven't rode yet because it has been raining here for 3 days with flooding and stuff.
Posted by Gerhardberger
- January 16, 2013, 04:27:46 AMWhen i bought my bike, it came with a GIVI Windshield, and I'm quite happy with it !!!!!
Posted by jamey wright
- January 15, 2013, 22:01:50 PMI tried angling my national cycle windshield to match the forks, and although it looked nice, this made it the perfect height to allow bees and bugs to hit me square in the bridge of my nose. A little more vertical, and it sent them over my head. After a few good bee stings, I learned that function is sometimes better than form.
Posted by chief
- January 13, 2013, 17:38:07 PMAccessories area of the web site...
http://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/reviewpost/showcat.php?cat=23Mods
http://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/reviewpost/showcat.php?cat=61
Posted by pcarrell
- January 13, 2013, 14:19:21 PMYou might at least mock it up and see what you think. If it won't work, something like this might: http://www.gadgetjq.com/jm_spotlight_bracket.htm or this http://www.gadgetjq.com/jh_1600_nomad_lightbar.htm
Posted by Pilgrim
- January 13, 2013, 13:26:45 PMI may have to return the Rifle then because I do plan on mounting spotlights-nobar, but I don't mind cutting the shield alittle if I have too. I do want my shield to angle back in line with the forks.
The windshield I bought for my 1500 I wound up cutting 6" off the heigth and cutting out for my lights at the bottom.
I will find out this week because my lights are due in tomorrow and the shield Wed.
Posted by pcarrell
- January 13, 2013, 09:58:13 AMAs was explained to me by a fellow Vulcan owner who had to deal with this.......
The Fire & Steel shield, like yours Ratman, only has a single curve to it....vertical across the whole face of it. The Rifle shield has a compound curve.....vertical across the whole face of it and horizontal across the lower portion. That's where the problem is with mounting spots (other then very shallow ones, and it makes the "Nobar" mod basically impossible). The bottom end points for the shields are virtually the same (compare where the shields end in relation to the headlight bucket), but the Rifle shield is more forward 2 or 3 inches above that point because it goes almost straight up from that point before it starts angling back. The F & S shield just angles back, allowing more room for the bucket of a spotlight.
Of course, if you don't plan on using spotlights this is all irrelevant........
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 13, 2013, 09:17:15 AMok I used a Fire & Steel light bar for a Vulcan and the lights mount really easy and are not bothered by the windsheild. JMPO don't like the windsheilds with the arms and brackets on the handlebars, looks messy and not as secure to me.