Gobs
Junior Member
Hi all,
As many here, I'd been looking for a more performing touring front screen since some months, incapable of choosing which one of the tens the market can offer. Furthermore, as some said here with reason: "difficult to choose a screen as soon as you were never able to test it by yourself on your own bike".
So I proceeded by elimination, trying not to just stick to the design I prefered, but rather than that based on reports/reviews I was able to find here and elsewhere, from riders as tall as I am and riding middle-sized half-faired bikes.
Then, here in Thailand, currently we never have cold temperatures. So no need the screen to "cut" the cold air. But, by an other way, we have very, very hot days too in the 3 to 4 months hot season (right now we get some 40°C and maybe more some coming days). At these days, commuting in and around the city (as a oven in this moments) has not to turn in a ride in hell: too much protection may become very uncomfortable...
From this, exit all the "very tall and very wide" screens...
So, at the time to decide I stuck to the PUIG Touring-Screen and the "fixed" MRA Touring-Screen OR the MRA Vario Touring-Screen... IMHO the PUIG Touring-Screen fits very well the FZ6F, better than the "fixed" MRA Touring-Screen... but the MRA Vario Touring-Screen with its moving spoiler seemed to offer the two sides of one same coin: spoiler down for slow rides in hot weather and spoiler up for faster rides on traffic-free roads.
As you guess, I went for the MRA Vario Touring-Screen... AND IT WORKS GREAT!
I ordered it from Twisted Throttle and all was easy, fast and efficient. No comments... Price is 150 $. You may choose between clear, grey smoked and black. I went for the grey smoked and I don't regret: it fits my black Fazer just through my taste!
Well. The MRA Vario Touring-Screen comes out of a plastic bag with its spoiler installed. A lenght of a soft plastic/rubber U-shaped seal and two small metal clips are provided to finish the upper fixed screen rim. As freebies you get 2 coloured MRA stickers...
The fixed screen is about 2.5 mm thick while the spoiler is about 5 mm. Perfect cut and drills, perfect nice print on the bottom from dark black (down) to grey smoked (upper) with a small MRA logo coming in silver colour, spoiler mechanisms are perfectly manufactured and fitted, and seems strong. Shape is perfect and fits just right in place on the fairing, drillings come just where they have to be at the first fit... Well, german quality: what to say more?
So it's just a bolt-on story on the bike, using the stock plastic screws: take off the stock screen and replace it with the MRA...
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Ten minutes and go!
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On this upper view you may notice the quality of the details, especially the 2 mechanisms supporting and moving the spoiler.
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This closer view shows the U-shaped seal and one of the clips previously mentionned. You can install the seal after mounting the screen, but I should recommend to do it before (as I did) as you can handle the screen more freely...
Engage the screen rim into the 2 lips of the seal and tighten it firmly all along the rim. As it is too long, trim excess on the two sides with a sharp cutter, then place at both ends one clip over the seal and press it with a plier... Not too strong to break the screen, but firmly enough to bend them upon the seal: they are here to prevent the seal to "fly off"...
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Not a good quality pic, sorry, but it shows the MRA screen is a bit more "bubbled" than the stock one, hence it allows a slightly larger opening to the original air inlet just over the clocks, hence an increased air-flow. I suppose, without being by far an expert, MRA technicians improved the screen protection by combining this air-flow with the spoiler/screen clearance one. Though the MRA screen size is very near the stock one, even with spoiler "down", you feel better behind it in the average straight riding position.
But I'll go further in the riding "comfort" on the next page...
See you further for the feels!
Cheers,
Gobs
As many here, I'd been looking for a more performing touring front screen since some months, incapable of choosing which one of the tens the market can offer. Furthermore, as some said here with reason: "difficult to choose a screen as soon as you were never able to test it by yourself on your own bike".
So I proceeded by elimination, trying not to just stick to the design I prefered, but rather than that based on reports/reviews I was able to find here and elsewhere, from riders as tall as I am and riding middle-sized half-faired bikes.
Then, here in Thailand, currently we never have cold temperatures. So no need the screen to "cut" the cold air. But, by an other way, we have very, very hot days too in the 3 to 4 months hot season (right now we get some 40°C and maybe more some coming days). At these days, commuting in and around the city (as a oven in this moments) has not to turn in a ride in hell: too much protection may become very uncomfortable...
From this, exit all the "very tall and very wide" screens...
So, at the time to decide I stuck to the PUIG Touring-Screen and the "fixed" MRA Touring-Screen OR the MRA Vario Touring-Screen... IMHO the PUIG Touring-Screen fits very well the FZ6F, better than the "fixed" MRA Touring-Screen... but the MRA Vario Touring-Screen with its moving spoiler seemed to offer the two sides of one same coin: spoiler down for slow rides in hot weather and spoiler up for faster rides on traffic-free roads.
As you guess, I went for the MRA Vario Touring-Screen... AND IT WORKS GREAT!
I ordered it from Twisted Throttle and all was easy, fast and efficient. No comments... Price is 150 $. You may choose between clear, grey smoked and black. I went for the grey smoked and I don't regret: it fits my black Fazer just through my taste!
Well. The MRA Vario Touring-Screen comes out of a plastic bag with its spoiler installed. A lenght of a soft plastic/rubber U-shaped seal and two small metal clips are provided to finish the upper fixed screen rim. As freebies you get 2 coloured MRA stickers...
The fixed screen is about 2.5 mm thick while the spoiler is about 5 mm. Perfect cut and drills, perfect nice print on the bottom from dark black (down) to grey smoked (upper) with a small MRA logo coming in silver colour, spoiler mechanisms are perfectly manufactured and fitted, and seems strong. Shape is perfect and fits just right in place on the fairing, drillings come just where they have to be at the first fit... Well, german quality: what to say more?
So it's just a bolt-on story on the bike, using the stock plastic screws: take off the stock screen and replace it with the MRA...
Zimage.biz
Ten minutes and go!
Zimage.biz
On this upper view you may notice the quality of the details, especially the 2 mechanisms supporting and moving the spoiler.
Zimage.biz
This closer view shows the U-shaped seal and one of the clips previously mentionned. You can install the seal after mounting the screen, but I should recommend to do it before (as I did) as you can handle the screen more freely...
Engage the screen rim into the 2 lips of the seal and tighten it firmly all along the rim. As it is too long, trim excess on the two sides with a sharp cutter, then place at both ends one clip over the seal and press it with a plier... Not too strong to break the screen, but firmly enough to bend them upon the seal: they are here to prevent the seal to "fly off"...
Zimage.biz
Not a good quality pic, sorry, but it shows the MRA screen is a bit more "bubbled" than the stock one, hence it allows a slightly larger opening to the original air inlet just over the clocks, hence an increased air-flow. I suppose, without being by far an expert, MRA technicians improved the screen protection by combining this air-flow with the spoiler/screen clearance one. Though the MRA screen size is very near the stock one, even with spoiler "down", you feel better behind it in the average straight riding position.
But I'll go further in the riding "comfort" on the next page...
See you further for the feels!
Cheers,
Gobs