The BoxI received the large shields in good shape, however the box has seen better days.
I thought I'd fix up a nicer box for shipping as a way of paying it forward.
I bought a box and got out the glue gun and started to reinforce it. I was pretty happy with how it was turning out, I was going to just put the old box inside it and ship it off. Turns out my work just ended up making shipping almost $20 dollars more. Seems there is something the shippers call "Dimensional weight". Even if I ponied up the extra bucks, I figured that no one down the line would appreciate me making the whole process more expensive so I scrapped it.
I found a slightly smaller box for the shields that would fit inside the crumpled one. I reinforced the crumpled one with more cardboard
inside and a stiffer cardboard frame from my scrapped box. The outside box is now perhaps more made of tape
than cardboard. To everyone downstream please except my apologies for the delay. My heart was in the right place, I just was unable
to execute.
I shipped today to PeteTn_zgtr via FedEx ground. At 26.1 pounds and a declared value of $500.00 it cost $47.86.
The ShieldsI found all three to be at least slightly better than my medium size CalSci shield for my biggest problem which is back pressure
pushing my head forward and down when the shield is up. However all three inhibit airflow too much when down for me to want one
for riding here in Texas. When raised all the way up (I'm looking through not over the screens) the Aeroflow was the
best. The Aeroflow also was the one that wobbled the most at speed (75mph). When I lowered all to about the height that
I liked (I could just see over the top and down the road about 100 ft.) only the Aeroflow had a significant improvement
over my current CalSci medium. Slight back pressure was still there but maybe only about 25% of what mine currently produces.
Overall the CalSci looked the best on the bike (good lines IMHO). The Cee Bailey looks the best made by itself, nice thick polished edges. The Aeroflow performed the best, but looked the goofiest. My conclusion is that right now if I were to lay out the money and try a new shield I'd try an Aeroflow medium. Seeing how the Aeroflow performed and how it is shaped (it's curved at the lower front like an air scoop) I'm thinking of trying some more modification to my stock '10 shield before I outlay any more money.
The AeroFlow had etched or scratch lines (center lines crossed) at each hole and a few up the center of the screen> Is that the way they come from AeroFlow or has someone along the line (perhaps the original donor) made these marks???
AeroFlows aren't cheap and I would not be happy if I bought one new and it had these lines in it.
I'm 5' 6.5" with a 32" inseam (that's the size jeans I wear anyway), and you may wonder why I wanted to try the large shields.
I was happy with both my stock shield and my CalSci medium in the lowered position but in the raised position both had too much
back force on my head. I thought I could try the large screens in the partially raised position to simulate a medium shield. I wanted
to try an AeroFlow more than a VStream so I went with the large group. I hope that made sense, it obviously did to me.