New GTR owner here

[winnsworld]

Hi all, after weeks of browsing your forums I took the plunge and purchased a 2008 GTR 1400 in Neutron Silver!

It's a very comfy ride for my partner and myself and we've already clocked up a few hundred miles getting used to it.

My only gripe at the moment is trying to position the standard screen to minimise buffeting/noise levels. I see here that some of you have elected to install the larger screens or those of other manufacturers. I like the look of the MRA (I had one fitted to my Tiger 955i to improve airflow) and I presume that once fitted it still goes up and down.

Anyway, hope to meet some of you in the future and discuss the finer points of these great bikes.

Graeme

[O.C.]

Hi Graeme, and a BIG welcome to this forum which as you already know is a great place with lots of good friendly advice, and all free of charge 

A larger screen will almost certainly still adjust up and down on your bike, although I personally haven't used the MRA screen, no doubt someone on here who has experience of that screen will be able to advise.

An alternative to a larger screen is to fit a Laminar Lip, as seen here

Good luck with your GTR I'm sure you will love it as they are superb bikes 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p4069.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0&_nkw=laminar+lip+kawasaki+gtr&_sacat=0&_from=R40

[Bryn]

Welcome along... I changed my 2009 standard screen for a Calsci Large, still don't believe the difference it made.. Totally transformed the bike. ....  (5'9")

I may be wrong but Debs has tried one and didn't like it... So if she's not done it already perhaps she'll be selling it.......

[Lonewolf]

Graeme, welcome to the forum of course and congratulations on getting the GTR. You'll no doubt find a few things over the coming weeks and months that you may like to change to suit yourself but fundamentally its a great bike and I've no doubt you'll love it to bits.

[Richard]

Hi

Welcome   

[beegee]

congratz & very welcome here!

ps over the channel here some guys have good experience with that laminar lip ;-)

[Rusty]

Hello Graeme and welcome .... So glad to hear you made the right choice of bike .... You will love it 

[winnsworld]

Hi all and thanks for the welcome.

I had a good ride out on my own today (visiting my son on a 90 mile round trip) whilst my better half does her CBT) and I comfortably hit 140 on a stretch of the M11 with very little effort having adjusted the screen up a bit but not too far.

The LIP looks a good idea, its effectively doing what the MRA does by diverting the airflow straight up (and hopefully over).

[Lonewolf]

Hmm, could it have been you I saw just off the A21 at midday today?

[O.C.]

ya can't go anywhere without the Wolf catching you out 

[winnsworld]

Not guilty lonewolf however, I was on the a21 last weekend when we went down to Brighton and Hastings for the weekend.

[Lonewolf]

'twas heaving with bikes today at Hastings, is that normal, was there a special bike event on?

[Boomer]

Welcome aboard Graeme,
You are pretty local to me so if you need to see a big screen or such let me know.
I'm not about this weekend though as will be in Cornwall at the GTR Club Europe TdT Weekend.

Steve, it's a seaside town on a sunny Bank Holiday weekend.
Southend yesterday was nasty with traffic and LOTS of bikes.
I'm local so I used the backroads. 

[winnsworld]

I believe it was an Ace Cafe ride out to Hastings

[Silverback]

Graeme,

I'm just down the road from you in Chafford, got a lip fitted to my screen which does a good job, if you want to see what its like.

Welcome aboard

Clive