T7 Cockpit Optimizations - screen riser and "anti-wobble"

Today I installed the *AltRider adjustable windscreen riser and the Camel ADV "Anti Bobble Head" brackets. Both are easy to do especially after watching the instruction videos both companies put up on YouTube.

The windscreen riser has a high quality look and feel to it (anything else would have been a disappointment at that price point) and comes with a special kind of screw locker for the thumb screws that promises to work even after re-adjusting the screen. You have to bend the windscreen quite a bit to get it re-installed over the screws but once done it fits perfectly.




The lower screws holding the headlight assembly were a bit tricky to access, otherwise installation of the stabilizer brackets was straightforward.


After test riding I can confirm that the Camel ADV brackets keep the dash under control very well.

The wind screen riser showed mixed results, it didn't improve wind noise as much as I'd hoped. Rising the screen just a bit yielded a slight improvement, but more than one or two centimeters made things worse again. I think the issue at this point is the narrowness of the stock screen, it just isn't wide enough to take my head completely out of the wind. I think I'll live with this for now - a larger screen would probably help but I'm quite certain I wouldn't like the looks of it.

Update: After a few more experiments I settled on a position about 1cm under the maximum height. I generally do not like to look "through" the screen as much as I have to at this height, but wind noise is really much better at this setting until 90 or 100kph, which covers most of my riding.

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