WRS Touring Windscreen Review For Honda CB750 Hornet

 

Good afternoon all,

I mentioned in my previous post that I would write accessory reviews for my 2025 Honda CB 750 Hornet once in a blue moon. The first of these reviews is this. On my quest to build the Hornet into a light tourer, I decided a windscreen to make the ride more comfortable on the 70-mph-posted roads exiting my city would be nice. I was hoping to find something a bit bigger than a flyscreen. 

For the Hornet, there was only one real option that I found in North America for a purpose-built touring-size (that's what I'll call it) windscreen, the Puig Touring New Generation Windscreen (not an affliate link; I don't have those lmao). It was/is out of stock and backordered throughout the US of A. I decided to look outside the US rather than wait for Puig to send more inventory to US distributors.

Although the Hornet was introduced in 2025 in North America, Europe got a pre-facelift model from 2023-2024. From there, I was hoping there'd be a touring-size windscreen. As it turns out, WRS, an italian motorcycle retailer and windshield manufacturer, made three relatively large screens for the Hornet.

 All options share the same mounting just different windshields so swapping between them shouldn't be too much work. From smallest to largest, the windscreens are called the Sport, the Touring, and the Caponord. All three come in clear, smoke, amd dark smoke tint options. This review will focus on the smoked Touring, but I did buy the sport windscreen separate to try at some point. 

(Stock Image From WRS)

Why the Touring?

From what I could find, there are nearly zero reviews of a these windscreens on the Hornet. The only one I could find was from a Spanish retailer called Nilmoto on Youtube for the Caponord (in Spanish). In that video, the narrator notes that the Caponord puts air at forehead level on his helmet at 185cm (6'1"ish). My fear was that I'm not short enough at 180cm (5'11") to avoid turbulant airflow hitting the very loud AGV K3 Helmet I use. 

The Sport seemed a bit too small to be very helpful but i was fearful about turbulant air with the Touring so I bought one as a spare anyway. 

Installation

Installing the windscreen was quite easy but not ideal as you'll see in a bit. The kit came with two metal supports that attach to the triple clamp and a bracket that attaches to the supports and front cowl mounts. The first step was pulling the 10mm bolts on the outside of the triple clamp and loosely replacing the bolts after putting in the end of the metal supports. 

The next step was pulling two allen bolts off the cowl and installing the main bracket with provided spacers and crosshead screws instad of the oem hardware. 

That step is the source of my main complaints woth this windscreen. One: Screws have no buisness replacing allen bolts. They naturally started to strip by the time I was done tightening them. Two: Gaps started to form in the cowl trim where the screws weren't fitting well. I've circled the new gaps in red below.

I don't think the trim gaps are a dealbreaker by any stretch, but they aren't ideal either. It's possible this is a one off issue with my bike/windshield so I wouldn't put too much weight on this in your decision to get one of these or not. 

The final steps were attaching the windscreen to the bracket with 4 allen bolts with washers and torquing the triple clamp bolts back down.

Looks

Eh. It's a windscreen on a naked bike. The Touring does appear to be a bit taller than Puig's Touring option so that's worth noting. Also, I look over the windscreen everytime I ride, so I think the dark smoked color option would look better without impacting visibility. 

Test Ride

I took the bike out for a 120km (70mi) test ride along interstate frontage roads to test the windscreen out. Speeds varied from 25mph (40kmh) in-town to 80+mph (128) on straights during the ride. 80 mph was by no means pleasant with my loud helmet and not particularly warm gear, but it was far more tolerable than it used to be and I found myself averaging 10+mph more than I would without the windscreen. 

The windscreen kept wind off most of my torso, all of my neck, and out of my helmet (even though I wasn't using the chin insert. From bug splatters, I'd estimate wind was hitting the top of my helmet's chinbar. Despite my helmet not being in entirely clean wind, I couldn't tell any difference in noise from the windscreen with my earplugs in. 

On the "most of my torso" bit, wind was hitting the sides of my body. I'm built like a brick with extremely wide shoulders, so I won't fault the windscreen for that. 

Pricing

With mounting hardware, the Touring costs $140 USD (w/out VAT). Spare screens regardless of soze are roughly $80. Very fast shipping from Italy via DHL was ~$75 (including an extra Sport windscreen). There were no customs charges. All in then, you can order one of these from italy to the US for around $215 USD. 

Compared to the Puig Touring option which is listed at $198 on Revzilla, this windscreen offers a slightly easier install (imo; looking at the instructions for the Puig which involve cowl disassembly) and potentially more wind protection from the larger windscreen for $17 more. 

Conclusion

The WRS Touring windscreen a good option for folks who don't want something as big as the WRS Caponord but want decent wind protection from their CB750 Hornet. I can't help but think I should have gotten the Caponord for better wind protection though, and I think that's where some people will find themselves. 

Cheers.