Okay let me set this situation up. Yesterday was extremely windy in my area but that did stop me and a mate from going for a rip on the bikes. My CB750 hardtail has keyhole '77 carbs and pods and have yet to display less than perfect performance, except for yesterday! The wind gust created a flutter at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle range, which was controllable but being anal I cannot live with it. On the way out as well as the return trip heavy winds showed that the set up was not perfect. I didn't sleep well last night as thoughts of dismantling and fussing with needle position plagued me until I finally managed to drift off. About 3 o'clock I woke and had one of those light bulb moments sparked by something I had read in a thread on a forum, something about someone running pods with a tube/sleave arrangement. A few more hours of hashing out how to's and I woke with and idea to make an aluminum oblong shroud that work protect the filters from cross wind and turbulence coming off the engine cases at speed.
After breakfast I ran to the hardware store and purchased a small roll of flashing aluminum and started to fab up the image I had in my mind. Two hours of measuring cutting, folding and bending I fitted my idea around the carb pods, looks were high on the must haves.
Once anchored and checked for secureness I fired her up, and yes today is just as windy if not worse. I have a test circuit that heads in all the compass points with flats, confined areas and those nasty open spots that harbour those killer side blasts that sometimes feel as if they can extinguish the internal combustion spark by themselves. From 0 to 150kph not a flutter, not even when I open my knees to the breeze which the day before would have cause the bike to fall flat on its face if I didn't shift and find a different rev range to compensate. I can't say it is perfect yet as I have to do some further testing in several conditions and perform the all important plug chops to say FIXED!
But as of now, it out for more riding... the sun is shining
