There's been some neat ideas here for dealing with turbulence and I must get round to trying the wind-comb solution.
Regarding wind blast, I suppose it depends on how fast you want to cruise at but given the brittle plastic cowling that the Tenere's screen is mounted to I'm surprised my standard screen hasn't been ripped off it's mountings at some of the speeds I've achieved (on private roads, of course!)
Would be interesting to hear from long term users with tall screens but personally I would have thought support rods/rails connected to the fairing frame would be better than just relying on well nuts and that plastic cowling.
You might also want to consider dropping the gearing to help it punch through the wind better - unless you've done all the Kev mods of course! ;-) As for increased fuel consumption????!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Lower gearing helps though - to a point)

Was there ever a 650cc single trail bike that had any better wind protection? '90's XTZ660? KLR650? DR650RS? (and certainly not DR800S!!)
I guess there's only so much wind protection that a relatively light weight sit-up-and-beg style bike with sub 50hp can cope with.
Still, with regular 60-65mpg, I'm happy enough.

the XF650 was fantastic with handling the wind

I've just got used to it now. As for tall screens, 13,000 miles on my Metal Mule screen with added bends in by me and no problems. Road speeds for cruising are 80+margarines.

Forgot all about that one. It got quite good reviews from MCN and a better overall rating the the Tenere. 47hp and 167kg. Just wish it had been more of an updated DR650RS than a Funduro clone (taller, 21" front wheel, larger fuel tank and better mpg)

yep.. it was a great bike.. never sold well here in Oz.. it was WAY ahead of it's time..

when I worked in a bike shop about 1.5yrs ago, we traded a XF650 in.. it had 50 odd thousand km's and I really thought we were going to be stuck with it.. I advertised it online and the next morning I had approx. 30 emails from people wanting to buy it.. the biggest response we ever had to a bike ad.. sold it a few days later.. a few months later it suffered the now infamous 3rd gear "problem" that some DR's seem to experience.. the bloke ended up doing a full bottom and top end rebuild as well as all new gears, selectors etc.. he absolutely loved the thing

Hi Nick,
interesting deflector shield !
Can you post an close up ? What mounting have you used ?

Regards
ToKi

looks like a MRA spoiler :)

http://www.downorisitme.com/?check=mra.de

Toki,

It's a homemade copy of http://www.aerotrim.co.za/index.html

They even have a Tenere specific one now...

http://www.aerotrim.co.za/cart/fyl6_vo6_p0499_00.jpg

I used a CNC Router to cut the parts out of perspex for the sheild and a softer plastic for the supports.


Nick.

Thank you Nick !

Regards
ToKi

I got a Touratech spoiler, im no longer having turbulance problems.
I guess it all depends on your length