Futura Double Bubble screen.

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Robbo87 · #1 Post by **Robbo87** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:58 pm

Anyone tried one of these seen-on-Ebay Futura D/B screens?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI. ... SS:GB:1123
If so, does it do the biz, or is it a pile of ill fitting dog poo?

MartDude · #2 Post by **MartDude** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:24 pm

I wonder who makes these? If it's Pyramid Plastics, it should fit ok, if it's Skidmarx, I'd have my doubts. don't know who else is making them these days.

Mine had an extended screen when I bought it, & I think it was a PP one. Although it was quite effective at sending the wind above my head, it was, IMHO, a bloody horrible looking thing, so I sold it. Possibly wouldn't look quite so bad in a lighter tint - Pyramid told me they could make one in any of their standard range of colours, given enough notice.

I replaced it with a Skidmarx standard pattern screen, & was a tad disappointed - rather thin & flimsy, & didn't fit very well around the headlight.

However, this seller does have a good feedback score.

Robbo87 · #3 Post by **Robbo87** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:45 pm

Just checked my pic's from the Marches meet and see that you've reverted to standard there Mart' - and from your posted pic's I can see why, and what you mean about the black and raised snout thing being bloody ugly. Think I'll give it a miss, even if it fits well and performs o.k. I don't think I want the looks.

I had a D/B on my Sprint ST and that also looked about as tasty as a regurgitated dog's breakfast. Guess the style just doesn't work too well on a Sport Tourer.

MartDude · #4 Post by **MartDude** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:21 pm

Phil, after trying 3 other screens (the 2 mentioned above & a standard, cut down, with a laminar lip attached) I came to the conclusion standard is best - or at least the best compromise between aesthetics & comfort.

Robbo87 · #5 Post by **Robbo87** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:47 pm

MartDude wrote:Phil, after trying 3 other screens (the 2 mentioned above & a standard, cut down, with a laminar lip attached) I came to the conclusion standard is best - or at least the best compromise between aesthetics & comfort.

Thanks Mart', I bow to your Hobbitness's extensive, not to say expensive, screen experience and, cheapskate that I am, will follow your sage advice; thus saving more drinking tokens for next May.

MartDude · #6 Post by **MartDude** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:55 pm

Robbo87 wrote:
MartDude wrote:Phil, after trying 3 other screens (the 2 mentioned above & a standard, cut down, with a laminar lip attached) I came to the conclusion standard is best - or at least the best compromise between aesthetics & comfort.
and, cheapskate that I am, will follow your sage advice; thus saving more drinking tokens for next May.

You're not a closet Yorkshireman, are you?

Robbo87 · #7 Post by **Robbo87** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:22 pm

MartDude wrote:
Robbo87 wrote:
MartDude wrote:Phil, after trying 3 other screens (the 2 mentioned above & a standard, cut down, with a laminar lip attached) I came to the conclusion standard is best - or at least the best compromise between aesthetics & comfort.
and, cheapskate that I am, will follow your sage advice; thus saving more drinking tokens for next May.
You're not a closet Yorkshireman, are you?

Close - my paternal family 'came out' from the north east eons ago and moved to where the phrase 'animal husbandry' means many things - Wales. Dad wasn't exactly ewestruck with the place it seems, made it across the Bristol Channel to swede territory before you could say baaaaahhhhh, and started his own little flock in Devon. Must admit the old family genes were stirred a bit when flossie called out from behind the hedge at the campsite - blood thicker than water and all that.

blinkey501 · #8 Post by **blinkey501** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:45 am

MartDude wrote:
Robbo87 wrote:
MartDude wrote:Phil, after trying 3 other screens (the 2 mentioned above & a standard, cut down, with a laminar lip attached) I came to the conclusion standard is best - or at least the best compromise between aesthetics & comfort.
and, cheapskate that I am, will follow your sage advice; thus saving more drinking tokens for next May.
You're not a closet Yorkshireman, are you?

Oi i resemble that

MartDude · #9 Post by **MartDude** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:48 am

blinkey501 wrote:
MartDude wrote:
Robbo87 wrote:
MartDude wrote:Phil, after trying 3 other screens (the 2 mentioned above & a standard, cut down, with a laminar lip attached) I came to the conclusion standard is best - or at least the best compromise between aesthetics & comfort.
and, cheapskate that I am, will follow your sage advice; thus saving more drinking tokens for next May.
You're not a closet Yorkshireman, are you?
Oi i resemble that

It's OK, Jay, I'm 'one of them' as well - Dewsbury, originally

über pikey · #10 Post by **über pikey** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:22 pm

I am only 3'2" tall so wind isn't an issue apart from when it catches my Cuban heels it makes me look like I'm doing river dance at 90+!!!!!
As for any welsh abuse tread very carefully as my heels have a poisoned spike!

blinkey501 · #11 Post by **blinkey501** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:37 pm

über pikey wrote:I am only 3'2" tall so wind isn't an issue apart from when it catches my Cuban heels it makes me look like I'm doing river dance at 90+!!!!!
As for any welsh abuse tread very carefully as my heels have a poisoned spike!

We will have to call you lotte lenya

http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-villains/lotte-lenya

über pikey · #12 Post by **über pikey** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:04 pm

Of all the open abuse I let myself in for you go and geek it up with that tripe, nice work

MartDude · #13 Post by **MartDude** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:27 pm

über pikey wrote:I am only 3'2" tall so wind isn't an issue apart from when it catches my Cuban heels it makes me look like I'm doing river dance at 90+!!!!!
As for any welsh abuse tread very carefully as my heels have a poisoned spike!

As moderator in here I can dish any form of abuse I consider appropriate, Taffy Twinkle-toes