Bruce, looking forward to more of your input. Did you get the Dark Grey? After thinking about it more I think I'm going to swap out my 16" for the 11". That will give me adjustment from 11 to 14 inches in height. Do you have the stock seat? Just wondering since Mark was so far off on the shield height for me? Just seems a waste not to be able to use the vertical adjustment built into the brackets. If I get a chance today I'll try to test out Marks claim that raising the shield too much reduces it's effectiveness. Since I'm already looking through what I have I'll just run it to the top of the 3" adjustment and see what happens.
In the end maybe I'll end up with two shields (11" for solo riding and 13" for two up)? Shields are easy to swap out, just 4 screws. This weekend my girlfriend will get a chance to see if the Madstad helps her at the passenger location? She rides herself but when riding two up with me loves the comfort of the F6B. I had the 11" Baggershield previously and she says there was just as much wind with that as on the back of my Road King and Heritage Softail.
One reason I went with Madstad was to avoid the curved top edge on the competitions shield which is not optically clear. Just thought that might be too distracting when the height is set just below your line of sight. Also I thought the Madstad brackets with height and rake adjustment looked better than the competition with height and rake adjustment.
In the photos I posted the shield is set at 55 degrees using an angle gauge I have for accuracy. The stock shield on mine was almost right at 45 degrees. So you can see that 55 to 60 degrees does not stand upright that much compared to the front fairing. The photos of the Goldwing on the Madstad sight appear to have the shield adjusted well beyond the 60 degree target which looks a lot more funky?
The brackets came assembled so that there is a 2-5/8" gap between the base shield and top shield which seems like a big gap??? The brackets have multiple holes which allow that gap to be reduced by moving the hardware to different holes in the brackets (these can be seen in my closeup photo). So the adjustment possibilities are almost infinite which is good and bad.