Windscreen or no windscreen?

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Pros:

-that giddy feeling when your UPS package arrives
-that giddy feeling when you've bolted everything up, and there were no unused nuts or screws
-warmer in winter
-protection against rocks and other road debris
-reduced wind fatigue on the freeway, if your bike sits too upright for comfortable freeway work (doesn't apply to the CB1100)
-that giddy feeling when you finally come to your senses and remove your ugly, hot, noisy windshield

Cons:

-headache-inducing wind buffeting
-annoying, noisy airlflow
-having to look through a windshield is for cars, not motorcycles
-optical distortions with taller shields
-a windshield full of splattered bugs
-scratches on your windshield
-big gusts of wind grab onto your tall windshield, turning it into a big sail
-your beautiful naked bike now looks hideously nerdy and downright awful
-reduced fuel mileage (with a tall shield)
-reduced acceleration (with a tall shield)
-reduced visibility at night and in the rain (with a tall shield)
-much hotter in summer
-extra cost and complexity
-absolutely not the way God and Soichiro intended

Unless you're on a feet-forward cruiser, sitting bolt upright, to where you need some sort of windshield in order to do freeway speeds without being blown off the back of the bike, the best windshield for any naked bike is the smallest windshield possible, or no windshield at all. People who say there is too much windblast on a CB1100 have simply never spent any real time riding one. In terms of wind fatigue, it will do normal freeway speeds without any problem whatsoever. You won't maintain 100+mph Autobahn speeds, but you can comfortably do 75 mph all day and night, no worries.

Enjoy the feeling of freedom that comes from riding your CB as it was intended to be ridden, in clean, smooth, quiet air.

Skip the windshield.

I arrived almost at the same set of conclussions as VLJ, but without even buying a windshield.

Bike looks better naked. Runs fine. I'll leave it as it is.