Sorry for another Road King fairing question but I've tried searching... and reading... and searching more.

I'm possibly in the market for a detachable fairing for my Road King. My question is whether there is a big difference with the wind protection/buffetting from a fairing versus the RK windshild (currently a +2).

So for a change I'm not asking about which fairing to buy but rather the difference in protection. It seems like most people are really interested in the tunes. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

 

I have a Dragonfly fairing for my 07 Road King. As far as protection from the wind the fairing is about the same as the windshield. I have only switched back and forth once.

 

Don't apologize, you raise a good question, different than what most other threads on this topic discuss. I don't have the answer,but as is often the case...if you have the question, someone else probably does too...like me. Thanks for asking.

 

There's more wind 'body' protection provided by the fairing. The difference between the fairing and the windshield is not nearly as great as between the windshield and nothing. With regards to your hands, there is a pretty dramatic difference between the windshield and the fairing, with the fairing providing a lot more protection. Winter riding with the windshield, I needed heated gloves. With the fairing, I still use the heated gloves (cuz I'm a wuss) but I've ridden without them, and it's very do-able.

 

I had no wobble with my stock RK windshield. I now have a quadzilla mounted and it 100% wobbles down the highway now. Not terrible but it is there ...

 

I've got a Dragonfly. Not that much difference in wind protection, of course depending on where your bars are mounted, you might get some more wind protection for your hands behind a batwing. Some guys have their bars high enough that their hands are in the wind anyway.

The fairing does give it a little heavier feeling though. I think the handling is better with the windshield, and better yet with no windshield or fairing on it. No wobble on my bike with a fairing mounted, even at speeds up around 100 mph.

The fairing is for tunes and for the way it looks. If you don't care for music while you're riding, and you don't care one way or another about the looks, run a windshield and save your money.

 

have the memphis shades fairing...also lower triple tree wind deflector...and fork mounted wind deflectors. the combination works well and bike is steady at any speed. got the thing from bikerhaven for $338 delivered. hell, windshields cost more than that! over 20k miles and no problems.

 

I had a Dragonfly fairing on my '01 RK. I bought it for the tunes, but I didn't really notice and difference in the wind buffeting. Hands definitely stay warmer with the fairing. Best money I spent on that RK was the fairing.

 

I've got the Memphis Shades batwing & luv it, better wind protection & cuts through wind better. Would never go back to windshield.

 

In my case i can say that there is more buffeting with the fairing than with the windshield. I am running a 6.5" Klockwerks windshield.