Just purchased a 96 electra glide the windshield is not good need new one but was wondering about the shorter more sporty looking ones. Do they block the wind enough to be of any use? I want to block the wind but also want to see over it any suggestions?

HRF members are a diverse and persnickety crew, a virtual miasma of upstanding citizens and derelict flotsam. I am more on the "flotsam" side of motorcycling.

I approach garbage-wagons as I always have, with a saw and a chisel. Dynamite if required. It never made any logical sense to me to purchase a $30K hunk of rolling machismo--with the idea to be outdoors--and then shut off the wind.

I had a windshield once. I used it under an old shovelhead when I changed oil. I didn't want marks on my garage floor.

In that light, use any windshield you like. A parade float is a parade float. Pink streamers are nice.

The seven inch deflect a fair amount of wind and smaller bugs, grasshopers not so much.

Granted, but how many grasshoppers own or even ride their own Electra-Glide?

It all depends on how "tall" you sit in the saddle.
Taller riders can use a taller windshield...
How tall do you sit and how high does your current windshield measure in inches?

It must really piss you of having women ride harleys huh tourist

Not a bit. The woman who sang at my wedding rides dressers, and a boated out Moto Guzzi. In fact, she knocks down bigger deer than her husband. I sharpen her tomahawks for her--she competes in Rendezous 'hawk throwing.

I'm just not a guy who lets "fashion" dictate anything I do, and neither should you. If you read my stuff I always use the example that most newbs I see buy a Harley, and the next time I see them they wear sleeveless vests. When asked, none of them know why.

We make a very big deal out of being a "real biker." Well, then face the issue head on. Most real bikers I know look at a dresser as 'raw material.' Most dresser riders I know only ride their bikes 1K to 3K per year, usually to work and back.

BI63 needs a windshield--because he actually rides incredible distances. I could never keep up with him. In forty years, I can count those types of guys on one hand. BTW, that woman I know is one of them.