^+1 I agree, buy some plastic ones. They're only a couple of dollars anyway.Plastic screws are for your own safety. If you wreck, the windscreen will break from the screws and not turn into shards
5mm is like 3/8". Seems a bit thick and 1.25mm would be well short for this application?5mmx1.25mm if I remember correctly .
Ah , yeah M5 is 5mm though . But I think they are actually 0.8 thread pitch . I bought screws for my wife's ride and mine last week so may have gotten confused .Yeh, I was using the first number for screw size and pitch and the 2nd number for length.
So it will flex more than the stock shield before snapping, then those sharp jagged edges of the remaining portion of the windshield will now be spring-loaded to assist in disemboweling you as you fly over the screen.but with the Puig and others they are made of more flexible/durable plastic so no need for plastic screws.
Or you might be over-tightening them if you're having problems with them stripping (either the heads or the threads) or stretching/breaking.The plastic screws are one use only intended to be used just one time and then replaced .
I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of the plastic screws. They are not intended to protect the windshield from breaking. They are intended to protect the rider from injury from the windshield. The plastic screws are the weak link that allow the screen to break away cleanly (no sharp parts) with less force (less impact injury). A more durable windscreen would actually benefit from the plastic screws even more than a less durable screen. A solidly mounted less durable screen would at least break, absorbing some of the impact, rather than behaving more like a solid immovable object.Put plastic screws in the faring so when you crash it will shear off and not scratch it , didn't think so .
Do you have any evidence to back up that statement? I highly doubt that you have tested how much force it takes to break off the windshield mounting point compared to breaking the plastic screws.I got the aluminum screws because it does not matter. The piece on the bike that the screws screw into is very weak and in a crash would just pull off the bike anyways.
I'm getting the idea most of your support is from experience. ( which is sometimes the best ) regardless of that where have you seen that the screws were made to break instead of the shield? Hear say or something you read. I just see all these companies selling metal screws for the screen and it seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen( if that's their true intended purpose) I'm not trying to cast doubt just asking for backing, so that I don't make a mistake. :thumbup:Do you have any evidence to back up that statement? I highly doubt that you have tested how much force it takes to break off the windshield mounting point compared to breaking the plastic screws.
I did a bit of searching to find something official for the sake of this thread, but unfortunately I couldn't find anything. Pretty much every discussion I've found on various motorcycle threads ends up with the same conclusion, though.where have you seen that the screws were made to break instead of the shield?
just like you could ride without a helmet if you wanted to. Point is it's all up to you. I for one want to replace my screws with metal ones, but it doesn't help visually or safety wise replacing them with metal screws. So plastic they will stay and any more back and forth on this subject is pretty pointless without studies. >_<i just removed the screen... now i can put whatever kind of screws in that i want...
Companies make products for bikes all the time that are dangerous as hell. Check out some of the custom bikes with metal spikes all over them, the levers that are basically a knife blade, all that kind of crap makes the bike more dangerous. If they can make money from someone putting them on their bike because they think it looks cool, they'll do it.I'm getting the idea most of your support is from experience. ( which is sometimes the best ) regardless of that where have you seen that the screws were made to break instead of the shield? Hear say or something you read. I just see all these companies selling metal screws for the screen and it seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen( if that's their true intended purpose) I'm not trying to cast doubt just asking for backing, so that I don't make a mistake. :thumbup:
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