Screens and Screams

 I have never been a fan of coloured screens. It was a big fad with the Gixers to put blue screens on them and I hated it. So despite the fact that in some pictures this screen looks okay I still wasn't a fan.
I have had double bubble screens in the past and suffered with melted clocks as a result of them focussing sun light into a clock killing death ray. A quick fix is to wedge a bit of card or your gloves into the bottom of your screen when you park up outside but better still you can paint the inside of the screen at the bottom. A more permanent and elegant solution that I did to my CBR600 FX.
As it happens, Powerbronze screens come pre painted and have a nice VFR logo on them. So, as I had accumulated allot of Nectar points, I spent them on a new screen on eBay.
The screen is held in by the mirror stems and a cover on the inside of the  front fairing. On the old screen there is also a clip that fits into a slot in the fairing and is slid down to lock it in place and the bottom of the screen butts up into the bottom of the screen channel in the front fairing. All very secure and neat if a bit on the blue side.
The replacement screen, better looking though it may be, lacked this clip and when I tried to fit it I found out it was a bit on the long side. It was also formed too wide to fit in the fairing without having allot of pressure on it to conform to the sub frame below.
A bit miffed at the clear poor design of this otherwise nice screen, I took out my files and reduced the bottom of the screen back. As you can see from the image above there is a gap in the middle that allows some airflow under the screen so I was only removing the prongs on either side.
With this done I was able to fit the screen into place. The shape however had the holes on the screen, that the subframe anchor nuts pass through to allow the mirrors to be fitted, standing well proud of where they should be.
A little persuasion got the fasteners in place on both sides and I wound them in in a diametrically opposing pattern (tighten opposite fasteners for even loading) to draw the screen in to the correct shape. Unfortunately my efforts were greeted with a snapped lug on the screen however it was still possible to hold in place. So I finished fitting it (now suitably pissed off) only to find that the stress of bending this screen into place had caused the bottom of the screen, without any clip to hold it in place, to pop out.
Not best pleased with this experience I expressed my grievance with the eBay seller who informed me that this was a common problem with this screen for the VFR but as I had modified it Powerbronce would not accept a return. The seller did offer  discount on a replacement which they didn't need to do but this basically boils down to Powerbronze being a bunch of dicks.
Knowing selling a screen that does not fit then refusing to accept the return of a screen that had only been altered in order to make their crap product usable is a bit of a low move and has encouraged me to never buy one of their products again.
The screen remains in place until I buy another. It looks okay from a distance and doesn't budge when riding but I am very disappointed with the fit.
A word of warning to other VFR800 riders, avoid this screen.