You’ll be able to’t do away with wind, however you possibly can handle it. Since 1975, Nationwide Cycle has been designing and manufacturing hardcoated polycarbonate motorbike windscreens within the USA to successfully handle wind. Nationwide Cycle is a Tier 1 provider for BMW, and its ZTechnik model is unique to BMW fitments.
Amongst ZTechnik merchandise are VStream windscreens, with a patented V-shaped profile that channels the wind vortex to the edges, away from the rider, for a quieter, extra comfy trip. Nationwide Cycle VStream windscreens are dimensionally fashioned from 3.0mm Quantum hardcoated polycarbonate, which offers distinctive crack and impression resistance (see chart under) and excellent optical readability.
Nationwide Cycle gives VStream windscreens for BMW touring, sport-touring, and journey bikes, together with my 2025 F 900 XR. I evaluated all three fashions out there for the XR – Sport, Sport Touring, and Touring – over a number of hundred miles on my favourite backroads and a few limited-access highways. These windscreens all function Nationwide Cycle’s newest hardcoating course of, Quantum Plus, which has larger resistance to abrasion than glass. It’s additionally extremely hydrophobic. Within the rain, you’ll see water hit the windscreen and bead proper off. (The cleaner your windscreen, the higher it really works.)
Check Notes:
- Your humble scribe is 5-foot-7, prefers to look over a windscreen, and wears earplugs when using.
- The F 900 XR has a lever to lift or decrease the windscreen on the fly. References to Excessive place and Low place mirror this OEM adjustment.
- The inventory windscreen has a middle peak of 17 inches and width of 14 inches.
- Swapping one windscreen for an additional is fast and straightforward, utilizing a T25 Torx wrench and the inventory fasteners.
The Sport possibility is the shortest VStream mannequin for the XR, with a middle peak of 15.5 inches and width of 13.5 inches. Though it’s barely smaller total than the inventory windscreen, the VStream’s distinctive form places the highest edge barely larger and farther ahead than inventory. In Low place, a easy move of air is directed onto my modular helmet, which offers a refreshing breeze to my neck and shoulders on heat days. There’s some wind noise, nevertheless it’s lower than the noise created with the inventory display and virtually freed from buffeting. In Excessive place, wind noise is noticeably diminished as air move is directed farther up and out.
The Sport windscreen is available in darkish tint, and because it’s quick sufficient for me to look over in both setting, the tint doesn’t obscure my view forward. This display has grow to be my alternative for hotter climate and at any time when I can keep away from lengthy runs on main highways. I believe it appears to be like nice on my black XR. It’s out there for $144.95.
The Sport Touring windscreen occupies the center vary with a middle peak of 18.75 inches and width of 14.25 inches. That’s 0.75 inch wider and three.25 inches taller than the Sport possibility, and the distinction is important. Beneath freeway speeds, Low peak lets me look over the display simply and creates a reasonably quiet pocket of air with minimal wind noise on my helmet. Flip to Excessive place, and wind noise drops noticeably. In my typical using posture, I look by it just under the highest edge.
The Sport Touring windscreen is available in mild tint. That is most likely as massive a display as most F 900 XR riders would need (except they’re fairly tall). This display will likely be my alternative for cooler spring and fall using. It’s priced at $164.95.
The Touring windscreen is massive, with a middle peak of 21.75 inches and width of 15.5 inches. In both Excessive or Low place, I look by it. Whereas that’s not my desire, its optical high quality is superb, and the additional peak creates a noticeably quieter cockpit. Spring arrived late in 2025, so I examined the Touring display on days when temperatures by no means surpassed the 40s. The additional protection helped maintain the chilly at bay. I observed gas financial system dropped a number of mpg, seemingly on account of a mixture of chilly temperatures and pushing this massive display by the air.
The Touring windscreen is evident (untinted). Should you’re a taller rider or simply need the very best diploma of wind safety, Touring has you lined. It may be had for $169.95.
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Of those VStream fashions, Sport offers the wind administration I need for spirited using on winding backroads. Sport Touring provides helpful additional protection for cooler climate or freeway using. Touring is larger than I want, however in the event you’re considerably taller than me (and who isn’t?) it could go well with you.
