Naked Question

[XS1954]

A question to anyone who has ridden a faired bike and a naked one. When passing trucks and when in side winds which bike takes the most battering from air flow?
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[Mantzy]

pretty much the same, the only time a fairing is useful on a motorway is to stop forward air. Doesn't make much difference from side on.
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[stinkwheel]

A faired bike generally has clip-on style bars whereas a naked bike has wider street bars.

This makes the naked bike handle a bit better in gusting sidewinds.
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[G]

However, with wider (mx) style bars, I'm generally sat up more, so less out of the wind.

Definitely notice it a lot more on my klr650 than most other bikes; but that was massive.

[natv4]

Bandit and VFR showed little difference (until hard luggage was fitted). Bigger heavier bikes are definately the way to go when its windy (provided you are moving above 20mph).
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[cagiva gezzer]

Didn't notice any difference with mine to side winds when riding without the screen / front fairing.

But, it knocked 10mph off the top speed, the bike ran a lot warmer and my neck / arms hurt loads.
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