Clearview Shield REFLECTION!!!!

[Whitlow]

I just installed a Clearview XXLarge Shield with vent and I have a reflection of the gas cap in the shield. Anyone else have this problem and did you fix it and how?

Thansk

[CMIKE]

With the stock windshield the chrome gas cap would reflect off the windshield for me. I quickly ordered one of the Yamaha Leather gas cap covers to solve this problem. Been using it for 25000 miles. It is a pain to remove and put on the gas cap when it is new but it gets easier the older it gets.

IT works and looks good also.

[ahoutzer]

Put a cover on the gas cap or paint the gas cap. I use the leather cover that Yamaha sold (I don't know whether they still sell it). Some put a drink snaggy there. I think AceHighLeathers has made some really fancy gas cap covers, if I remember right.

[rumboogy]

OK...here is the ANSWER to your question about reflections in both the windshield and YOUR EYES from direct reflections in the sun. A custom leather gas cap cover by Ace High Leathers...I LOVE MINE (in fact, I have 3 of them).

 

Here is a link with ALL the information you'll need.

 

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57521

[SilvrT]

I painted my gas cap flat black 3 summers ago and it looks the same today as when I painted it. NO MORE REFLECTION!!

 

Simply clean it very good with laquer thinner, mask the underside (parts that go inside the tank), spray it with a good primer (black) and then coat it with a good flat black. You can use rattle cans for this.

 

I suppose tho, that the cost of paint might exceed any price one might pay for a custom cover ... BUT ... you'll still have lots of paint left over for other things.

[OB-1]

My wife took a piece of an old black T-shirt and a bit of elastic and made a gas cap cover for our bike. Works like a champ!