Emergency Visor?

**Ms Piggy** · 21st May 2005, 10:47

Originally Posted by Zed

I wore sunglasses for years before deciding to try a tinted visor - I'll never revert back to sunnies again! The practicalities of a tinted visor far outweight sunglasses IMHO:

Blocks the sun/glare across the whole visor instead of just around your eyes.
No need to remember to take off your glasses when putting on & removing your helmet. Have you ever forgotten to take off your sunnies when putting your helmet on? It hurts your head and the glasses!
There is always the option to replace the tinted one with clear when riding at night or in dull light. (note to myself: must remember to start taking the clear one in my bag!!)

Try out the tinted visor stifarms, you'll be pleasantly surprised. I buy the medium tinted ones and not the really dark tint. :raghead:

Yeah I love my tinted visor but I quite often ride at night so have had to swap back to the clear one, I think I'll start carrying both though. The glare at the moment on a sunny day is terrible.

**Ixion** · 21st May 2005, 10:56

Originally Posted by Zed

99.9% of the time I ride with a tinted visor but they tend to be a major hindrance at night you see, not that I ride at night, but sometimes I get caught out!

Do any of you who use a tinted visor actually carry your clear visor with you on your bike 'just in case'? Maybe it's something I'll begin practising?

Well, you dont actually NEED a visor you know . Many of us rode for years before full face helmets were invented. Mark VIII goggles for long trips but most of the time nothing over the eyes. It's not a problem at legal speeds as long as you don't have to deal with sun glare. Which obviously you dont at night. I generally ride with my visor up around town at night, avoids that nasty star spangling.

**Zed** · 21st May 2005, 10:57

Originally Posted by Slim

Oxford make a visor carrier which the slimmer amongst us can wear under our jacket with the visor curve hugging the side of our waist. (I can picture this, but having problems describing it ... sorry).

On long trips, I pack the clear visor in my pack, near the top, but for to & from work, I carry a pair of clear safety glasses in my tankbag so that if I'm caught out after dark, then I can ride with the visor up & my safety classes protecting my eyes.

Thanks to The Man for that suggestion.

A sensible reply Slim. That's a good idea about the clear glasses, didn't think of that option myself. Oh and what's this Mans name? Sounds like you're in love!

I experience the dilemma of 'not riding with my packrack on' during my weekend rides, when I am also riding in a one-piece suit...not much room to store things and I'm fairly certain I would be uncomfortable wearing that visor carrier - another good idea that! There is stuff-all room under my seat for anything else but my toolkit too.

Under those circumstances I guess I just have to make sure I arrive home before dark...yet sometimes it's unavoidable.

**Zed** · 21st May 2005, 11:10

Originally Posted by Ixion

Well, you dont actually NEED a visor you know . Many of us rode for years before full face helmets were invented. Mark VIII goggles for long trips but most of the time nothing over the eyes.

Indeed wise Ixion, relations of mine have travelled to Hawaii several times and hired Hogs to ride around the islands on, it's not compulsory to wear a lid over there (you know) but you must wear glasses - they told me it was a great feeling of freedom, of which I can only imagine.

Originally Posted by Ixion

It's not a problem at legal speeds as long as you don't have to deal with sun glare. Which obviously you dont at night. I generally ride with my visor up around town at night, avoids that nasty star spangling.

I love riding with my visor up in comfortable light and at relatively slow speeds, but I *enjoy* riding using a tinted visor more, especially when the "legal speeds" are exceeded!

**stify** · 21st May 2005, 11:51

cheers all,
will be makin a visit to me local friendly shoei visor stockist near me soon
guna give it a go(gota be better than staring at reflections instead of road)

duno bout ridin wit no visor thou,i have trouble coping with the large influx
of oxygen at anything over 80k's.....starts the brain operating then have go home and park up bike and mow lawns an paint roof an fix door an an an an

**magnum** · 21st May 2005, 21:34

yes,carry in my bumbag or tankbag.

**ANDIES** · 22nd May 2005, 11:27

I take it that wearing tinted/black visors are OK in NZ.
Here in the UK they are classed as illegal although a lot of bikers wear them and 90% of the time the police turn a blind eye to it.

**Zed** · 22nd May 2005, 11:56

Originally Posted by ANDIES

I take it that wearing tinted/black visors are OK in NZ.
Here in the UK they are classed as illegal although a lot of bikers wear them and 90% of the time the police turn a blind eye to it.

Well the bike/accessories shops would be breaking the law in selling them for road use if they were illegal!

Heaps of motorcyclists wear them down here and I've never even discussed the notion of them possibly being illegal?

**jimbo600** · 22nd May 2005, 13:12

Originally Posted by ANDIES

I take it that wearing tinted/black visors are OK in NZ.
Here in the UK they are classed as illegal although a lot of bikers wear them and 90% of the time the police turn a blind eye to it.

Dark visors, aftermarket end cans all legal down here mate. Plus our regulation license plates are about the same size as the cool looking illegal variety in the UK. The advantage is we don't have Europeans telling us what to do down here.

**250learna** · 22nd May 2005, 18:07

since we only have few hours of daylight every 24hrs at this time of year, its better to have a clear one handy. Its now 6pm and outside is pitch black

**zooter** · 22nd May 2005, 22:45

Originally Posted by Zed

99.9% of the time I ride with a tinted visor but they tend to be a major hindrance at night you see, not that I ride at night, but sometimes I get caught out!

Do any of you who use a tinted visor actually carry your clear visor with you on your bike 'just in case'? Maybe it's something I'll begin practising?

I do it the other way round and carry an emergency pair of sunnies

**Lou Girardin** · 23rd May 2005, 09:17

Nolan have just released the VPS visor system for the N100, N101 hemets.
It's a tinted half visor that pivots independantly of the main one. It looks OK, but it won't shield all your face from the sun.

**vifferman** · 23rd May 2005, 09:29

Originally Posted by Slim

Oxford make a visor carrier which the slimmer amongst us can wear under our jacket with the visor curve hugging the side of our waist. (I can picture this, but having problems describing it ... sorry).

That's what I was going to do, but I like your next suggestion more!

Originally Posted by Wise Woman

On long trips, I pack the clear visor in my pack, near the top, but for to & from work, I carry a pair of clear safety glasses in my tankbag so that if I'm caught out after dark, then I can ride with the visor up & my safety classes protecting my eyes.

Thanks to The Man for that suggestion.

Excellent idea, and it's weird that I never thought of it, because prior to buying the AGV with a mirrored AND tinted visor, I used to always wear or carry sunnies, so this is like the reverse situation.
'Sfunny - the first few years I rode bikes, I only ever wore a visor on my helmet if it was very cold and/or wet. Same with gloves.

Yet recently I work a little late, and got caught out at dusk with my dark visor on, and had to ride with it up after the sun went down (admittedly, at 50km/h only, but I was freaking out: "What to do! What to do!??!") So the AGV now has the clear visor on again, just in case it gets too dark.

My first accident was caused by riding with a tinted visor on, at dusk, in drizzly weather. I pulled out of the driveway at work, didn't see a Mini coming, and clipped the side of it with my handlebar, pitching me off onto the road. Never wore it again.