Topic: Picture of Prince and a classic Windjammer :-)

[willbird]

Not sure what the bike is.....

[MauiK3]

That's an oldie!

[willbird]

That's an oldie!

I far prefer them to the later WJ that had their own integrated turn signals :-).

[scottly]

Not sure what the bike is.....

It was a sissy 400 automatic.

[Alan F.]

More than plenty for a small guy.

[Rayzerman]

I saw a local ad for a Windjammer for a CB750 (although 'spozed it could be for more than a 750), priced at $50 and a 2.5 hour drive away.... I put it into my fave list and let it sit, thinkin' one day I'll just get it for fun...... looked today and the ad is gone.... might be just expired ad, if it pops up again, I maybe better just go get the thing.

[BenelliSEI]

I saw a local ad for a Windjammer for a CB750 (although 'spozed it could be for more than a 750), priced at $50 and a 2.5 hour drive away.... I put it into my fave list and let it sit, thinkin' one day I'll just get it for fun...... looked today and the ad is gone.... might be just expired ad, if it pops up again, I maybe better just go get the thing.

Be patient…… Most of them are given away!

[HondaMan]

I wonder what happened to his windshield? Musta been in the way of the camera...
It's an early Windjammer III version, the ABS injection-molded ones. They had the side-lights.

[Trevor from Warragul]

There's a scene in the movie where he rides the bike down an embankment. The rear tire magically changes to a knobby just before he throttles off!

[ofreen]

I wonder what happened to his windshield? Musta been in the way of the camera...

That is likely the reason. They used to take windshields out of cars in old TV shows to eliminate glare and reflection, early episodes of Andy Griffith, for example.  I remember a lot of guys would take them off in the summer to get more air. I thought about trying it but wae always too lazy. I was curious what the air flow would have been like behind a sheildless Windjammer at speed.

[HondaMan]

I was curious what the air flow would have been like behind a sheildless Windjammer at speed.

I got to find that out during a long tour in 1977 (I think it was). A passing truck (2-lane road) pitched a big rock at mine and cracked it: the next day the crack worked across at the upright on the left side and a few inches higher on the right side and it broke off (laying in NM somewhere today, probably?). I rode (still do) with the extended visor and short shield to protect my glasses, and the upward-directed wind constantly pulled upward under the short shield like someone's hand was pulling up on my visor at speed, rotating my helmet up in front all the time above 60 MPH (but I NEVER exceeded 55 MPH, that would be illegal - no, wait...that's a sick bird...). It greatly increased fatigue, so my riding days were a little shorter on the rest of that trip.

[Medyo Bastos]

Not sure what the bike is.....

It was a sissy 400 automatic.

Yeah, a 400 auto! That didn’t keep Apolonia from purifying herselfin the waters of Lake Minnetonka


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[Alan F.]

But that wasn't Lake Minnetonka 

[scottly]

I never watched the film, but I have a somewhat vague, semi-repressed memory of a skinny kid in a bathtub while a song about doves crying played. Some things, once seen, can't be forgotten...

[Medyo Bastos]

But that wasn't Lake Minnetonka 

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[scottly]

But that wasn't Lake Minnetonka 

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She's wet, cold, and naked except for her panties, and he throws rooster-tails getting away from her?!!! As Hank Hill would say "Sumpin ain't right with that boy..".

[Just John]

Tommy Summers built the Purple Rain bike for Prince.  https://www.bike-urious.com/purple-rain-replica-1979-honda-cm400a-custom/

[Don R]

 My parents wanted me to drive them on vacation one year so I took my 750 along on a trailer. I didn't know you were supposed to take the windshield off when in a truck or on a trailer. A week after we got home I was crossing railroad tracks and the plastic WJ bolts snapped. I caught the windshield in my lap and was able to stop safely.
 That's when I learned about the metal mounting clips that Vetter came out with.

[RAFster122s]

Metal mounting clips? Say more ...

[Don R]

 It's a rubber lined metal clip that slides over the Lexan and has a welded-on stud sticking out of the back. They replace the top side mounting bolts on the windshield. 
  My GL1000 also has a polished stainless-steel plate that covers the lower part of the windshield and sandwiches the Lexan between it and the jammer body. At certain times of day, it throws off a nasty reflection that lights up road signs as you travel. I've wondered if it ever flashes oncoming drivers. No one that I've ridden with has ever noticed it.

[RAFster122s]

Thanks! They still available?
I've got a Windjammer 4 that needs new windshield and bolts.

[Don R]

 I think so,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133186318007?_skw=Vetter+windshield+clips+and+bolts&epid=171259816&itmmeta=01JNAKAHXKF0ET5316CZX03D0T&hash=item1f0285eeb7:g:oYoAAOSwPZlhvJ0T&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAABAFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1enaQTy1IMu5Xa%2FZbRwJWG6RIDP4qCHkm3C9cYgZ8uWLUNFYUYVsXcJH9xd%2BHMnb1hkn5qNjSCbqP4Q1H57ZJ6hlPnwxxBbzJIxsG53wH13rPrMXFt6rngX3mljbklMvOsujqzQwH72Y1ijyNi2iks6OBxnIjvXP27wwFwCoizZCUorOnrrwUdZV9TW0K14a1f8iJbMpJFkt8oYOvvzoTqGcI7%2FVTWw%2BfvBPxzRFAxRRtBJjSwl8139QkHdJvi3TY6eJS6J0F46ocDRdRCFWRVGkipfhfysoGAkYi1vXof2hNpP0aeHvQWAB%2BllltMdWGI%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4afqtOqZQ

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235835609429?_skw=Vetter+windshield&epid=5040284930&itmmeta=01JNAKJXJJ20G6Z6JAVDDXDPK4&hash=item36e8e5d155:g:drgAAOSwCspnOzK8&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1em8Xdj4x6FP3WZAHCgFw6PmnaqgykysScK58JK0MJzHUbob8dExue05SX%2Fo7Uf1PPmRX3Lt%2FWApcta8WSb7BPuQzyJNe11mF6DybF0aD8uDo4Axywb2EnSZLJvy9%2BjbM%2BjzchHrAvrg1cOEaYUOBJIbb3JJAugVkA%2FIFHKBR%2F97LrJJMsUAifYpZusaDQdk4nfjeyBN4n8yLMjQwRtxUVb%2F%2Bq%2BFZpoSFW0zgOqqcmIFYREvvdYa4zWj9RPQix1l8E%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7jZy9OqZQ

[Don R]

 If you have an old windshield that just got filmy looking, I use Wizards mist and shine on mine to polish the plastic. deep scratches of course are past polishing. I think Lucas mist and shine works as well.

[HondaMan]

It's a rubber lined metal clip that slides over the Lexan and has a welded-on stud sticking out of the back. They replace the top side mounting bolts on the windshield. 
  My GL1000 also has a polished stainless-steel plate that covers the lower part of the windshield and sandwiches the Lexan between it and the jammer body. At certain times of day, it throws off a nasty reflection that lights up road signs as you travel. I've wondered if it ever flashes oncoming drivers. No one that I've ridden with has ever noticed it.

Yes, it does! And it's a bright flash on mountain roads, I can say.(!)

[ofreen]

I was curious what the air flow would have been like behind a sheildless Windjammer at speed.

I got to find that out during a long tour in 1977 (I think it was). A passing truck (2-lane road) pitched a big rock at mine and cracked it: the next day the crack worked across at the upright on the left side and a few inches higher on the right side and it broke off (laying in NM somewhere today, probably?). I rode (still do) with the extended visor and short shield to protect my glasses, and the upward-directed wind constantly pulled upward under the short shield like someone's hand was pulling up on my visor at speed, rotating my helmet up in front all the time above 60 MPH (but I NEVER exceeded 55 MPH, that would be illegal - no, wait...that's a sick bird...). It greatly increased fatigue, so my riding days were a little shorter on the rest of that trip.

That was a helluva whomp to break that windshield as they are pretty tough. I'll bet that was exciting.  I got the metal clips decades ago when I ordered a screw kit from Vetter.  The top nylon screws were constantly breaking, and the metal clips solved that.
 
I wore a helmet with the visor long, long ago and remember how it would catch the wind when I would look over my shoulder at speed. Like throwing out a parachute. Not as big a problem behind a windshield of course, but I can imagine how it must have been without the windshield and just the fairing.  Good thing you were a good citizen and not violating the national speed limit or it would have been really bad.