Motorcycle safety windshields

A cycle break-away safety windshield having means to prevent rearward movement of the shield with respect to the cycle under forces of a first magnitude, and adapted to break-away when acted on from the rear by a force of a much smaller magnitude, said windshield having front and rear surfaces, an upper portion adapted to be seen through by a rider, and a mounting portion, said mounting portion including an upper mounting system comprising at least two mounting pads having their front surfaces adhesively attached to said rear surface of said shield at spaced apart points on said rear surface of said shield, said pad units including cooperating means forming a part thereof for attachment to associated shield mounting braces, said cooperating means permitting the attachment connection between said shield and said braces to be broken away without damaging said shield under said force of smaller magnitude.

A cycle windshield assembly, comprising, in combination, a wind deflector shield having transparent upper portion adapted, in position of use, to be seen through by a rider, and intermediate and lower shield portions, each of said intermediate and lower portions including brace receiving pads having portions thereof adhesively affixed to the rear surface of said windshield, said upper brace-receiving pads including means thereon cooperating in use with a portion of an associated brace to enable said windshield to be broken away from said brace when said windshield is struck from the rear.

A cycle windshield mounting system comprising, in combination, at least a pair of mounting units adapted to be fixedly mounted with respect to the steering and front suspension portions of an associated motorcycle, said mounting units also having portions extending at least partially upwardly and forwardly from the cycle mounting portions thereof, said mounting units terminating in windshield mounting pad assemblies having forwardly directed, shield-engaging pad surfaces adapted to be adhesively attached to spaced apart portions of the rearwardly directed surface of an associated motorcycle windshield.

A method of manufacturing a motorcycle windshield assembly, said method including cutting a transparent shield material into a desired shape, forming said shield into a desired contour for association with a motorcycle, providing at least a pair of windshield mounting pad assemblies each having a body portion adapted to cooperate with shield mounting braces and a front surface portion having a contour corresponding to a portion of the rear surface of said shield, and adhesively bonding said front surface portions of said mounting pads to said rear surface of said shield.

A mounting hardware assembly for a motorcycle windshield, said assembly including lower left and right hand mounting assemblies, each of said mounting assemblies including a pad unit having a pad body with a brace-receiving opening therein, and a generally forwardly directed, windshield-engaging pad surface adapted to be adhesively secured to an oppositely directed surface of an associated motorcycle windshield, a brace mounting assembly adapted to be secured to a portion of a motorcycle fork assembly, said brace mounting including a brace receiver assembly, means for tightening said receiver assembly around said brace, a clamp for attaching said receiver assembly to a portion of said fork assembly, and a brace unit having one end portion received within said pad body opening and the other end in said brace receiving assembly, said tightening means, said clamp, and said receiving opening being arranged to permit three-dimensional positioning adjustment of said pad body with respect to an associated motorcycle.

A break-away windshield mounting assembly adapted to cooperate with a motorcycle windshield and at least one motorcycle windshield mounting brace in positioning said windshield in relation to an associated motorcycle, said mounting assembly comprising, in combination, a portion adapted to be securely affixed by adhesive bonding to a portion of a windshield lying above the handlebars of an associated motorcycle, and a portion for removably receiving a portion of an associated mounting brace, said receiving portion being adapted to receive cooperating means on said mounting brace to provide a connection between said mounting assembly and said mounting brace which will prevent movement of said portion of said windshield to the rear under a rearwardly acting force of a first magnitude, but which will permit said mounting assembly to break away from said portion of said mounting brace under a forwardly directed force of substantially less magnitude than said rearwardly directed force.

A cycle breakaway safety windshield assembly adapted to be mounted so as to prevent rearward movement of the shield with respect to the cycle under forces of a first magnitude, and adapted to break forwardly away when acted upon from the rear by a force of substantially smaller magnitude, said windshield having front and rear surfaces, an upper portion adapted to be seen through by a rider, and a portion adapted to receive an upper mounting assembly, said windshield assembly further including an upper mounting assembly comprising at least two mounting units each having a portion thereof securely affixed by adhesive bonding to said mount-receiving portion of said windshield, said mounting units being positioned at spaced apart points on said windshield, each of said mounting units also including means forming a part thereof for cooperation with portions of a pair of windshield assembly mounting braces, said cooperating means being constructed and arranged so as to permit a ready attachment connection to be made between said portion of said mounting unit and an attachment portion of said mounting braces, and further permitting said cooperating means to be broken away from each other without damaging said shield when said windshield is acted upon from the rear by a force of at least said smaller magnitude.