Hand guards

[csduncansnomad]

Seen a nomad with clear plastic hand guards anyone know where to get them?

[jevans43]

Seen a nomad with clear plastic hand guards anyone know where to get them?

Here you go.

http://www.nationalcycle.com/catalogue/CoolWeather.shtml

[csduncansnomad]

Tks so much. :)

[dantama]

I have them and love them. I wish I had purchased them 9 years earlier. I only bought them last year.

All those cold hands when riding in temps in the 20's all these years. Knowing how well they work I wish that I bought them in 1999 and had warm hands all these winters.

[Jared]

I made a set last winter. They were very easy to make and are very effective.

http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n337/900classic/Iron%20Butt%205-4-09/IronButt4-4-09066.jpg

[macmac]

After this evenings little jaunt I want some... Got home at 7:50 and 38 degrees with nasty cold finger tips. brrrr

I think I have some spark plug loom chromed brakets that might make the frames.. With a little lexan I can make the rest easy.

I never have tried before, but I hear you can make a rounded mold and use a microwave to bend the stuff.. I don't know what I would make a 1 time use mold of, but I will ponder on it awhile.

Another way http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif might be go and chop up one of my old lady's bras and epoxie the hell out of it. I bet that would cause a little road side chat LOL

[ringadingh]

Sounds like a good excuse to get a fairing, then you can listen to the radio as well.

[Idaho]

Seen a nomad with clear plastic hand guards anyone know where to get them?

Here you go.

http://www.nationalcycle.com/catalogue/CoolWeather.shtml

Can't find them on the website. It does not show them available for the Nomad. I'm easilly confused.

[dantama]

I made a set last winter. They were very easy to make and are very effective.






Anyone who would ride to Wendover in the cold is totally crazy!

http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n337/900classic/Iron%20Butt%205-4-09/IronButt4-4-09066.jpg

[ridemslow]

I got a set from JCWhitney... Nat'l Cycles, but they were listed for like the 04 Classic or something like that. Works on my Nomad. Here's a link to them on Cruiser customizing website:
http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/detail.cfm?Category_ID=37&manufacturer_ID=48&product_ID=9556&sblid_name=National_Cycle_Hand_Deflectors___Kawasa ki_Suzuki_for_Kawasaki_Vulcan_1500_Classic_Fi&model_id=0

the part # NC-N5511

1600 Nomad is not listed, but these do fit, I have a set. Hope this helps.

[Jared]

[quote="Utah Motorcyclist":ehgbplr5]I made a set last winter. They were very easy to make and are very effective.






Anyone who would ride to Wendover in the cold is totally crazy!

http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n337/900classic/Iron%20Butt%205-4-09/IronButt4-4-09066.jpg[/quote:ehgbplr5]

This was May 4th when I did an Iron Butt ride. I think it was just a few weeks after meeting up with you at the Harley shop.

It got down below freezing but the deflector helped a lot!

[wantakaw59]

The National Cycle hand air deflectors are a must have for me. For both summer night riding and spring and fall total riding they make the difference between numb fingers and OK fingers. Even with good gloves on 3 fingers of my right hand will go numb quickly without the deflectors. Now I just have to get lazy b-hind out to the garage to mod some brackets to make the Honda setup fit the Nomad!!

[skeeter]

After this evenings little jaunt I want some... Got home at 7:50 and 38 degrees with nasty cold finger tips. brrrr

I think I have some spark plug loom chromed brakets that might make the frames.. With a little lexan I can make the rest easy.

I never have tried before, but I hear you can make a rounded mold and use a microwave to bend the stuff.. I don't know what I would make a 1 time use mold of, but I will ponder on it awhile.

Another way http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif might be go and chop up one of my old lady's bras and epoxie the hell out of it. I bet that would cause a little road side chat LOL

bottom of a mixing bowl comes to mind. make sure it's your ladies favorite.

I like the bra idea. you can pick the color to match your bike and style to make the mood. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

[macmac]

Ah, Lets not go into favorite dishes.... I ruined a pyrex brownie dish with home made hide glue, and it is still a sore subject.

All I wanted to do was fletch some arrows i made, so made up glue to stick the feathers in place and then dob more glue on real sinew. That part worked fine, but I didn't scrub out the dish and left it on junk on the woodstove, which was warm. The glue pooled in one corner and when it dried pulled a chip of pyrex off the pan.

This was considered invading her domain I think http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

[Idaho]

Ah, Lets not go into favorite dishes.... I ruined a pyrex brownie dish with home made hide glue, and it is still a sore subject.

All I wanted to do was fletch some arrows i made, so made up glue to stick the feathers in place and then dob more glue on real sinew. That part worked fine, but I didn't scrub out the dish and left it on junk on the woodstove, which was warm. The glue pooled in one corner and when it dried pulled a chip of pyrex off the pan.

This was considered invading her domain I think http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

The Misadventures of Mac. I'm thinking these little tidbits would worth some money in a bound collection.

[Idaho]

How do the deflectors attach? I already have a mounting bracket for the CB radio under the mirror and I wonder if there is enough room.

[macmac]

Find a likely bolt to attach the bracket too, and make it work.... You can drill lexan easy. I would use a lexan over plexi glass because plexi glass shatters into wicked nasty pointy shapes.. it is dammned hard to shatter lexan.

Once seeking 'lights' port hole windows for a sea going sail boat I tested some of these things, and lexan won.

One test was placing a long sheet of this over 2 saw horse and me climbing up to walk around between the saw horses. Lexan bent and returned when I got off.

I shot some lexan with a variety of bullets, and it made holes of course, but the holes looked like stars, or flowers, and the lexan stayed put pretty much.

Some other materials became instant daggers... I have enough troubles with out sticking daggers into whats left of my body.

As to a collection of my mishaps, no one believes me half the time, and then not many are into items I am, like French and Indian War Relics, even if I make them myself.

The only reason you guys belive me 1/2 the time, is because i am consistant, and tell you how I did these things, in a way you know I did it.

When I made the glue, in part I wanted it to be editable, but after i did i wouldn't eat it myself.. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif I suppose I could have, but it was really ugly.

I still have some somewhere. At the time there was a healty excess on hand and I poured it into a wax paper lined ash stick, which just happened to split out smooth on the inside.

So I ended up with a 1/2 round stick of hard dry gray glue, that anytime I want I can smear with water and use as I please. This isn't anything like water proof. It needs protection form any and all dampness, just like the real hide glues always did.

So does real sinew. I made a pair of great mocs, which fell apart once wet with real sinew and brain tan deer hide.

So being something of a purist, I resewed the mocs with linen, which lasted a little longer but the linen rotted, and the mocs fell apart again.

Now I got better things to do than sew the same old mocs over and over again, so I used a man made synthetic thread called artificial sinew, which is a lot like tan colored dental floss.

The point being I try the old ways out and find where they are flawed, and then in time break down and use the few man made things that will save me time and also last.

There is other people who do a part, and or exceed my efforts, but they are either re-enactors or Buck Skinners, or both like me.

In stores of today there is very little to interest me. There is guns and there is bikes and not much more.

You can't exactly run down to walley world and buy a F&I flintlock, knife and all the clothing to set up camp and start in cookin venison...

Not many folks are into that sort of thing on a good day, muchless in dead of winter, but hey it floats my stick...

[macmac]

Getting back to the point..... The mirror mounts are probably ideal... Yank the mirrors off, and make a bracket that is held by the mirrors and their lock nuts..

My choices for a bracket might be aluminum, stainless steel, or maybe a strip of the same lexan, heated and twisted, the same as you would need to twist and bend Alloy or stainlless.

Bend a arc and drill 2 more holes for the shields and match the holes to the shield and use ss hardware...

A handy guy might beat 2 hours for both. I just might really go with a bra, and fill it with lexan or something else non-lethal just to get a few laffs... (A match for my womens purse windshield bag.. LOL)

These won't be on the bike in summer time, 'IF' there ever is another summer time again ???

I wonder what the add robot will be after I post this one?

[Jared]

I made the brackets out of a piece of 1"X1/8" aluminum and I attach them under the mirror, exactly like Mac described above.

I take a few pics of them later this afternoon to share with everyone. The design I made is extremely easy and took maybe 1 hour to make the brackets and to cut the lexan.

[Top Cat]

I made the brackets out of a piece of 1"X1/8" aluminum and I attach them under the mirror, exactly like Mac described above.

I take a few pics of them later this afternoon to share with everyone. The design I made is extremely easy and took maybe 1 hour to make the brackets and to cut the lexan.

OK Utah, this was posted Oct 11th. Where are the pictures ??? ;)

[Scoot]

http://www.gadgetjq.com/hand_wind_deflect.htm

[Jared]

Sorry, I've been kind of all over the place lately. The pictures on the gadget page are almost exactly what I did. They should definitely give you the right idea.

[fish]

someone on here had a picture of them on their bike about a year ago, I thought it was TC :-/

[Top Cat]

Not me Lar. That seems like way to much messing around for me to attempt. I'm an instant gratification guy ;)
You know, let someone else do the work and I buy it and put it on. Instant gratification http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif
After al I'm retired and don't have much time on my hands http://s2.images.proboards.com/cool.gif

[lw]

someone on here had a picture of them on their bike about a year ago, I thought it was TC :-/

Might have been me, as I bought a set last winter.
I recall posting them then, and rather than searching back that far, here they are:

http://inlinethumb12.webshots.com/44171/2624443640099960035S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb23.webshots.com/44438/2770485410099960035S500x500Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb13.webshots.com/23308/2476573690099960035S500x500Q85.jpg

[Top Cat]

Where and how much LW ???

[lw]

http://www.nationalcycle.com/catalogue/CoolWeather.shtml (http://www.nationalcycle.com/catalogue/CoolWeather.shtml)

Their site advertises them for $89.95

[dantama]

someone on here had a picture of them on their bike about a year ago, I thought it was TC :-/

Might have been me, as I bought a set last winter.
I recall posting them then, and rather than searching back that far, here they are:



Those are the same ones I have lw. Worth every penny once it gets cold. We had a day last weekend with 25 degrees for a high. It's about time to put them back on.

I took Ridemslow's advice and bought them here

http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/detail.cfm?Category_ID=37&manufacturer_ID=48&product_ID=9556&sblid_name=National_Cycle_Hand_Deflectors___Kawasa ki_Suzuki_for_Kawasaki_Vulcan_1500_Classic_Fi&model_id=0

The price was $87.11 including shipping. I ordered them on Sunday night after reading this forum and they are expected to arrive on the 20th of October.
They show smoke tinted hand guards on their web page and don't give you a choice. However, I read on another forum that the guy received clear from them. Me, I don't care as long as they help me stretch the riding season. What sold me on them was when Utah and Dan Lund said they worked. That was good enough for me so I pulled the trigger right away.

Enjoy!!
Tom

[wantakaw59]

You'll love em Xgringo,, guaranteed!!

[ridemslow]

DITTO! +1 Dan.






Might have been me, as I bought a set last winter.
I recall posting them then, and rather than searching back that far, here they are:



Those are the same ones I have lw. Worth every penny once it gets cold. We had a day last weekend with 25 degrees for a high. It's about time to put them back on.

[Netnorske]

After seeing the link posted for the "Hand Guards"....I recently ordered a pair. I installed them last week but today was the first day I was able to ride with them. It was the perfect day to test them too, because temps were in the low 40's early today and hung around 51 for a high late in the afternoon. Needless to say, it was a four layer ride, but I got in about 125 miles with a group of about 16 other bikes of all makes/models.

First I rode around close to home to test them for placement. I had originally mounted them so that they had about the same angle as the grips. With a chill in the air, I pulled off my gloves to "test" the air flow. I was still getting lots of airflow....hhhmmm. I went home to re-adjust them to match the angle of the windscreen....more straight across and farther forward from the grips than before. From there I just went on my group ride without any further screwing around.

I got home just as daylight was waning and temps were again dropping. I had been riding for an hour non-stop and upon pulling into my garage and pulling off my gloves, I realized my hands were much more comfortable and warm than in previous rides in similar temps. I could only assume the guards were now well positioned and doing their intended job of keeping the direct wind blast from my fingers... :) http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif!

This is what I love about this site. I would have never known that a set of these listed for on '04 Vulcan Classic (National Cycle Part #NC-N5511) would work on my 1600 Nomad! They were simple to install and well worth the investment!

What was funny was while standing around waiting for all the bikes to show for the ride....a couple other riders were talking about trying to find some "Hand Guards". I pointed to mine and said...."You mean like these...??". They were stoked to see them and then proceeded to give my Nomad a good eye-f*cking. Before too long they were asking what I didn't have on my bike... http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif ;)!

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Good idea Mac. Let me know how it works out.

[wantakaw59]

After seeing the link posted for the "Hand Guards"....I recently ordered a pair. I installed them last week but today was the first day I was able to ride with them. It was the perfect day to test them too, because temps were in the low 40's early today and hung around 51 for a high late in the afternoon. Needless to say, it was a four layer ride, but I got in about 125 miles with a group of about 16 other bikes of all makes/models.

First I rode around close to home to test them for placement. I had originally mounted them so that they had about the same angle as the grips. With a chill in the air, I pulled off my gloves to "test" the air flow. I was still getting lots of airflow....hhhmmm. I went home to re-adjust them to match the angle of the windscreen....more straight across and farther forward from the grips than before. From there I just went on my group ride without any further screwing around.

I got home just as daylight was waning and temps were again dropping. I had been riding for an hour non-stop and upon pulling into my garage and pulling off my gloves, I realized my hands were much more comfortable and warm than in previous rides in similar temps. I could only assume the guards were now well positioned and doing their intended job of keeping the direct wind blast from my fingers... :) http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif!

This is what I love about this site. I would have never known that a set of these listed for on "04 Vulcan Classic (National Cycle Part #NC-N5511) would work on my 1600 Nomad! They were simple to install and well worth the investment!

What was funny was while standing around waiting for all the bikes to show for the ride....a couple other riders were talking about trying to find some "Hand Guards". I pointed to mine and said...."You mean like this...??". They were stoked to see them and then proceeded to give my Nomad a good eye-f*cking. Before too long they were asking what I didn't have on my bike... http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif ;)!

Glad ya like em Net!! What I've learned about them is that they are not only GREAT in super low temps, but allow you to NOT have to wear gloves in the intermediate temps!! That is why I've learned to leave them on all year round. Late summer eves can get quite "nippy" in Ohio!! ;) All my H.D. buddies are jealous of them when they see me riding without gloves. The only thing holding them back from purchasing them is the cost, probably because of those huge bike payments?? http://s2.images.proboards.com/tongue.gif Should I share Gadgets' home made info, or keep it a Metric Secret??

[475772]

Good morning: some good hand guards can be found at J&P Cycle . they are on page 189 in voume 6 $89.99, or go on line. I've dealt with J&P before they are very reliable people. Hope this helps.