Riding with the visor up always is it a no-no?

[The End]

You're one up on me, I don't even wear a helmet.

[PrincessBandit]

Lots of people wear open face helmets and obviously feel no compunction to change. With the number of stones I've had flick up into my neck, bug splurge on the visor etc. not to mention that often I find it hard to breathe with my visor open at speed, I always go for the "visor down but open just a tad when I need". Definitely down in the rain. The sensation of having my face tattooed is not pleasant.

Husband though often rides with his visor fully open as he has a very large wind shield on the burgman which protects his face from lotsa the shit I just mentioned.

[imdying]

*snip awesomeness*

First time I've posted one of those without sarcasm!

[paturoa]

First time I've posted one of those without sarcasm!

Shit, I should have stretched it to reach the sarc threshold.

[awa355]

Visor?? what visor.

Next thing someone will ask if they should do up the chin strap.

[Coolz]

[QUOTE=awa355;1130524362]Visor?? what visor.

Next thing someone will ask if they should do up the chin strap.

[QUOTE]

Chin strap? I thought those little rings were for locking the helmet to the bike.

[Angel_of_Metal]

I tend to go with visor up when I am doing under 60km, above that visor down.

1) In winter, visor up above 60km, gets pretty chilly pretty fast first thing in the morning
2) I don't especially want to feel what it would be like to have a stone get intimate with my face at any speed really...
3) It gets kinda hard to breathe when you are on the motorway with it up!

And hell, if it is super hot or foggy, you can always crack it open a little bit and get the best of both worlds

[Subike]

Back in the day before helmets were made compulsory by the safety brigade, then by common sense,
100mph with no helmet on was a sensation you could get almost nowhere else.
We rode with sunglasses on, or goggles, or nothing at all,
Yes stones, bees, night beetles, etc were I agree part of the environment
But the bikes were not as quick, the road were not as congested,
motorways did not exist, and the PC brigade was still wearing their nappies.
I only use my visor when it is raining, dusty or cold,
I use a full face as I understand the gravel rash risk, something that we didn't understand way back when.

[NordieBoy]

Visor up if in 70kph zone or slower.

Always sunnies/safety glasses though.

Open face helmet with peak and visor.

[Banditbandit]

I ride with my visor up unless it is raining - or above 200 klicks ... I did forget to drop my visor chasing a mate to Pareoa last year .. and got hit on the cheek by a big furry bumblebee at 235 klicks (painfull )


But the important think is eye protection ... so I always wear shades ... I like the sharky style ones because they fit better and don't allow a wind blast round the corners and into my eyes ... (they're also only $20 to replace at the next petrol station if they get fucked up .. like getting hit by a stone a couple of months ago .. big crack on the lens ...)

It is a problem when it rains, because I don't check the cleannes of my visor nd often get caught out by a filthy visor (both sides) when it does rain ... (if I know I'll be ridign at night I do wash my visor)

[sootie]

It is not a cure all, but a good visor clean & then a coating of Pledge considerably reduces the annoyance from visor scratching if the scratching is not too bad.

[speeding_ant]

Someone I know was riding with his brother - his brother had visor up at 100ish km/h. Got hit by a bird, knocked out, bike completely obliterated, and in a coma for a few weeks. Didn't do pretty things to his face.

I always wear visor at higher speeds.

[nzspokes]

Ive got some photos of riders in open face helmuts that have not worked in a crash. But may not fit within the rules of the site.

[NordieBoy]

Ive got some photos of riders in open face helmuts that have not worked in a crash. But may not fit within the rules of the site.

I've got photos of riders in full face helmets that have not worked in a crash.

Also got photos of riders in open face helmets having no problems at all. Still may not fit within the rules though

[JamesTrick]

The other day I was riding around 50km/h and this (what seemed like) reasonable sized rock slammed into my visor. I think I'm pretty lucky for using my visor