Test run 2 - German helmet (with glasses) was tge nist comfortable, almost no wind noise, but lots of noise in general - I can hear everything in the motor, trans, braking, etc. Which I kind of like, but I think hours of that on the highway could get old.

What that showed me is that the wind noise is definitely in the helmet, not in the windsheild itself.

2nd best was my 3-piece helmet set up as a closed full helmet, visor shut - I had been wearing this as a 2-piece, no face guard, visor up, with glasses. That was horrible for wind noise. Adding the face guard reduced the wind noise quite a bit, but not entirely. I think it would be bearable, and might be preferable to the German helmet at freeway speeds.

I would rather have more protection than the German helmet offers, so I think it will be a short term solution while I experiment with changing the way air is coming across the windsheild and unto the helmet, like filling the gap over the headlight, and/or trying different windsheild heights or even profiles. I do have a few options to choose from with that setup, but additional screens are like $80-$100 per, so I don't want to just buy them all.

Another thing I am looking at is getting louder pipes, so I can hear them better over the wind noise. That was how it was, it was hard for me to actually hear what the motor was doing at 40-50 mph, I just had to look at my guages. And there's not much to look at, and hard to look down with the faceguard.

This is probably a whole of whinging over shit I should just get over, but at some point m/c riding is supposed to be enjoyable and relaxing. Not quite there yet, so I will continue pointing out every issue and ideas to improve on it.

Thanks #nostr for letting me document my process with notes. #grownostr I guess.