I love a great invention, and my new Madstad windscreen bracket for my V-Strom 650 is beyond fantastic. The V-Strom is infamous for its bad helmet buffeting if your around 6' or taller (that's me). Up until I had a minor spill that cracked my aftermarket Vario Touring Screen, I was stuck with the stock one again. Boo.

After so many positive reviews about the Madstad bracket (which works for any V-Strom compatible screen), all I can say is WOW, wowity wow wow. Now the stock screen works as promised and cuts through the wind like butter at any speed. Suzuki should license this and make it standard equipment on on V-Stroms, because it's that significant an improvement. See Madstad's own video below about why it's so groovy....

It's been too damned long since I've posted, but in the spirit of Samhain/Halloween, I found that someone had done a nice cosmic slideshow to one of my favorite dark ambient songs ever – Lustmord's Blackstar.