Do the Reckless batwings offer any more protection than the MS shades?

I did that exact switch. No. Nothing beats factory Silverado WS and Curts Lowers.

I just might give up the music and go back.

I had the MS first off after the oem windshield and oem stainless lowers..then I went to the HD batwing with the "wings" on the lower part of the batwing. Lots of buffeting and now I have JTD hard lowers mounted on my crash bars...Looks great....definitely reduces buffiting...ie now I can not only see the speedo at highway speeds but I can read the clock.. The only BUT is that I am now watching the heating factor of the heads as I am feeling more heat than I rememeber on my inner right thigh when at stop or doing duck walk. I also installed an ED big touring seat and I don't know if slightly the new position is a contributing factor or not...I luv the seat so ..it stays...but I am preparing myself for possible having to remove the hard lowers...I hope not cause I really like the look but...........we'll see.

MS1700 wrote:
I did that exact switch. No. Nothing beats factory Silverado WS and Curts Lowers.

I just might give up the music and go back.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one. I just switched from a Silverado windshield to a fairing, outer shell only, and a set of lowers that I made and I much prefer it over the Silverado windshield.

Hey Doc, I just made that exact switch. I think it's going to be a toss up, although it also depends on how you set the fairing up, with shield etc.

Once I get the lowers installed right and a better (taller) windshield I expect it to block just about as much wind as the MS. Maybe more, because the MS lowers kinda sucked at doing their job right. Now at least my hands have more protection instead of getting all the wind that the shield pushed around.

PhatRJ wrote:
...Now at least my hands have more protection instead of getting all the wind that the shield pushed around.

That was actually one of the things I was wondering about. At first glance, it appears the Reckless is slightly bigger / wider/ than the MS, is this an accurate assumption?

sigmund wrote:
MS1700 wrote:
I did that exact switch. No. Nothing beats factory Silverado WS and Curts Lowers.

I just might give up the music and go back.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one. I just switched from a Silverado windshield to a fairing, outer shell only, and a set of lowers that I made and I much prefer it over the Silverado windshield.

x 10 on that!. I just did the exact same!

Doc_V wrote:
PhatRJ wrote:
...Now at least my hands have more protection instead of getting all the wind that the shield pushed around.

That was actually one of the things I was wondering about. At first glance, it appears the Reckless is slightly bigger / wider/ than the MS, is this an accurate assumption?

I just realized I'm a complete idiot, and I thought you meant M/S windshield. If you were referring to the MS batwing, I have no personal experience to add to that subject, and I'm just flapping my jaw (fingers really.)

Doc_V wrote:
PhatRJ wrote:
...Now at least my hands have more protection instead of getting all the wind that the shield pushed around.

That was actually one of the things I was wondering about. At first glance, it appears the Reckless is slightly bigger / wider/ than the MS, is this an accurate assumption?

If you're talking about the ms batwing doc, yes, the reckless is about three inches wider than the ms. I went from ms batwing to reckless just because I didn't like the ms as much as I thought I would cosmeticly. And before I put the apes on, my hands were 100% behind the reckless, didn't even need gloves one cold morning. And for the money, they cost about the same with audio (i had the hogtunes boombox looking thing on my ms too, big reason I went to reckless) if you buy the audio somewhere else like I did.

Im not sure there is any room for you in the club who disagrees with me
I have over 0K on the Road* all weather, Silverado WS, MS WS, And Reckless, All types of lowers on all three. Been down to below 15 degrees is absolute blizzards, The Reckless and MS is large handling liability, it's pushing too much air. And to be quite truthful, it's doing nothing for your hands as far as getting air off them. If I was to have to do some cross the US Iron but ride in all weather, I would go back to the Factory WS , either way you need heated gloves and In adverse weather the Factory Ws handle way way way better. The Reckless only looks cool and sounds fantastic with 6 x 9 speakers.


I rode both in these conditions and my experience is, Factory is better.

sigmund wrote:
MS1700 wrote:
I did that exact switch. No. Nothing beats factory Silverado WS and Curts Lowers.

I just might give up the music and go back.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one. I just switched from a Silverado windshield to a fairing, outer shell only, and a set of lowers that I made and I much prefer it over the Silverado windshield.