Windshield Bracket

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Basically, I got all the materials at Lowes. 

OK... Here goes a very non-technical explanation of what I did.

 I used a threaded ¼" rod and cut it to length for each of the bracket posts 

 Basically I just mounted the windshield on the bike with the lower mounts, held it in place where I wanted and measured to see how long and what sort of bend to put in the upper bracket posts so they passed through the windshield at as close to a 90 degree angle as I could manage.

 Windshield side:

 I drilled 2 - ½ " holes in the windshield where the brackets would pass through.

 I used a couple of grooved rubber grommets* that fit into the hole I drilled.  These grommets (that might not be exactly what they called them) had a groove around the outside edge of that fit the hole I drilled, and a ¼" interior hole. (These are generally used to protect an electrical wire passed through a piece of metal I think.)

 I threaded a ¼" nut on the top of the bracket post, added a washer, and added 2 rubber washers*.

I passed it through the rubber grommets attached to the windshield and added 2 more rubber washers and a black plastic screw head snap-cap*. This is a hard plastic screw head cover with a flip up top.  Flip up the top, pass the rod through the hole, add a ¼" nut.  Make sure this nut is at the very top of the threaded bracket. Snug it up and snap the cap.

 Bar side:

I found some tubing clamps* sized for the diameter of my bars (the kind that slip over and you tighten by passing a ¼ screw, or threaded rod in this case, through. The clamp also had the protective rubber on the inside too.)

I slipped the tubing clamps over the handlebar.

I slipped a piece of black shrink tubing over the threaded bracket rods and threaded a ¼” nut on the post.  I then slipped the post through the tubing clamp and put another nut on bottom of the post.

Put on a washer and nut and tightened the whole thing up!

 

*These items came from the bins at Lowes with all the specialty washers and fasteners.