Tinted visors, good or bad?

[DEATH_INC.]

Quite apart from the colour of the visor, all my visors have had a strip of electrical tape applied to act as a kind of sunvisor for when the sun is close to the horizon. That bit of electrical tape, quite innucuous in itself, makes riding at dawn and dusk much easier

Too true that. I used to do the same....

[bosslady]

I do the sunnies thing, too poor to do anything else...

Used to think that the drop down sunshades were good too until last week when I had a wee spill and landed on my head. All ok but the sunshade that was in the down position sliced the end of my nose off and took a chunk out of the side of my nose.

Prior to that i thought they were great.

I had always wondered about that... and now I know. Glad you're otherwise OK but sorry to hear about your nose
Think I'll stick with what I have, was happy enough with swapping when I needed to anyway... I don't wear sunnies anyway find them terribly uncomfortable and they often give me headaches, my eyes will thank me when I'm older I guess... or not...

[Grashopper]

Used to think that the drop down sunshades were good too until last week when I had a wee spill and landed on my head. All ok but the sunshade that was in the down position sliced the end of my nose off and took a chunk out of the side of my nose.

Prior to that i thought they were great.

Ouch! I was always quite happy with my flick-downs. Maybe I should rethink that. Did they break?
Anyway, glad that you're ok otherwise.

[FJRider]

Think I'll stick with what I have, was happy enough with swapping when I needed to anyway... I don't wear sunnies anyway find them terribly uncomfortable and they often give me headaches, my eyes will thank me when I'm older I guess... or not...

I get all my sunnies from the $2 shop. They have a good selection. I take my helmet in and try the sunnies on with the helmet on. Had no issues with them.

Try the same "try on" method wherever you buy yours ... if you can.

[bosslady]

I get all my sunnies from the $2 shop. They have a good selection. I take my helmet in and try the sunnies on with the helmet on. Had no issues with them.

Try the same "try on" method wherever you buy yours ... if you can.

I don't wear sunnies, hate em, always found them uncomfortable, give me headaches.

[caseye]

Used to have an Osse flip front lid ( Italian made, nice and comfy, one release point) until my wife was brought down on her bike and her flip front Nolan split and caused her to be pretty nastily cut from her top lip down to her bottom lip in the corner of her mouth.
Went out and bought two bell full faces, older and quite cheap, but genuine Bells and they've both never given us an ounce of trouble.
No flip down visors in em either, thought , why? the more that c an go wrong the more will go wrong, haven't regretted this decision yet.

[bosslady]

Used to have an Osse flip front lid ( Italian made, nice and comfy, one release point) until my wife was brought down on her bike and her flip front Nolan split and caused her to be pretty nastily cut from her top lip down to her bottom lip in the corner of her mouth.
Went out and bought two bell full faces, older and quite cheap, but genuine Bells and they've both never given us an ounce of trouble.
No flip down visors in em either, thought , why? the more that c an go wrong the more will go wrong, haven't regretted this decision yet.

that's exactly why I didn't get a flip front even though I saw one in a colour I really wanted... just SEEMED unsafe to me as you said, one more thing to go wrong, come apart etc.

[Zedder]

I had always wondered about that... and now I know. Glad you're otherwise OK but sorry to hear about your nose
Think I'll stick with what I have, was happy enough with swapping when I needed to anyway... I don't wear sunnies anyway find them terribly uncomfortable and they often give me headaches, my eyes will thank me when I'm older I guess... or not...

Interesting about you getting headaches from sunglasses, it usually points to a bad fit. Poor quality sunglasses though are worse for your eyes than not having any from what I've read/been told as is wearing sunglasses/tinted visors unnecessarily.

[tnarg]

Used to think that the drop down sunshades were good too until last week when I had a wee spill and landed on my head. All ok but the sunshade that was in the down position sliced the end of my nose off and took a chunk out of the side of my nose.

Prior to that i thought they were great.

What brand helmet was it? I just checked my Shark helmet that has the flip down visor and it doesn't lock down (Just a spring) so any force against it would just push it back up.

[Woodman]

What brand helmet was it? I just checked my Shark helmet that has the flip down visor and it doesn't lock down (Just a spring) so any force against it would just push it back up.

Was an HJC, and the sunshade stayed down. The outer visor broke the pivot bolt. Now have a Shoei without sunshade

[bosslady]

Interesting about you getting headaches from sunglasses, it usually points to a bad fit. Poor quality sunglasses though are worse for your eyes than not having any from what I've read/been told as is wearing sunglasses/tinted visors unnecessarily.

I dunno, just always been the way, I just don't see how I could get comfortable with them but I do need to get some, must be ruining my eyes, surely

[jellywrestler]

can't stand sunnies hence the visor also I too was told they look cool lol

ridings not about fashion it's about safe gear. i wear $2 shop kiddies sunnies when riding that way when you suddenly go from bright light to dark a quick flick will get them off your eyes and when you come out of the shade you can pop your visor and push em back up. may sound odd but it works a treat
dark visors leave you with less options unless you want to change them depending on conditions, not always practical

[bosslady]

ridings not about fashion it's about safe gear. i wear $2 shop kiddies sunnies when riding that way when you suddenly go from bright light to dark a quick flick will get them off your eyes and when you come out of the shade you can pop your visor and push em back up. may sound odd but it works a treat
dark visors leave you with less options unless you want to change them depending on conditions, not always practical

but.. but.. I wanna look BOSS

[_Shrek_]

Used to think that the drop down sunshades were good too until last week when I had a wee spill and landed on my head. All ok but the sunshade that was in the down position sliced the end of my nose off and took a chunk out of the side of my nose.

but wasn't your helmet up & just the tint visor down like I saw you Saturday,

I thought good. But noticed everywhere I go 90% ++ of riders have clear visors? I've got both for mine and if I'm going far enough away from home I take both, just in case the weather packs up or the sun comes out.

this is my 2nd HJC with internal sun visor & I was KO'd & few years back with internal down it didn't touch any part of my face but I hit the ground hard enough to brake clear external visor
& I wear sonnys as well

mrs S has the same helmet, coz she can't wear sunnys, so the internal gives you the best of both worlds

[Zedder]

I dunno, just always been the way, I just don't see how I could get comfortable with them but I do need to get some, must be ruining my eyes, surely

I have a HJC full face and wear my sunnies very comfortably. They're not large lensed ones (like aviator type) but do combat Ultra Violet light. The Ultra Violet light is the bad thing. However, if they're not good quality lenses to start with they can strain your eyes.