Open visor/open face?

[inlinefour]

You just have be smarter - and harder - that the air.

About 170 in an open face you can start making music in an open mouth like exhaling into an empty bottle

Maybe so but considering which end it would be coming out of at 170, I don't think I'd want to try that.

[AllanB]

Only gay men ride with open face helmets over 100kmph - helps stretch their mouths and cheeks

[Nagash]

Only gay men ride with open face helmets over 100kmph - helps stretch their mouths and cheeks

I wonder if I can ride at 100K's with an open face helmet while getting the reach around from a chicky.. hmm..

[Big Dave]

Maybe so but considering which end it would be coming out of at 170, I don't think I'd want to try that.

Nostrils???

[heyjoe]

Thank you for that Jiminy. I have never heard of cat crap (outside of a litter box or the vege garden) I presume bike shops or repco sell it?

Sharry,

A number of bike shops will sell it. Basically any place that needs to clean goggles, lenses, glasses etc. If Motomail is near you up in Auckland then you can get it there as well. Usually priced around $9.95. Comes in a small orange/red coloured pop up container about the size of a stack of 5 old 20 cent pieces. A little bit goes a long way. Great for people who wear prescription glasses in helmets and visors.

Some info:

http://www.motox1.co.nz/products/goggles/
http://www.motoretail.co.nz/product.cfm?ID=5353

[WelshWizard]

Okay a couple of questions here.

1. Why ride with your visor open, why not close it, i hear so many times of people riding open road speeds then getting hit by rocks....ciggie butts, bees etc etc. Why not just keep your visor open only a crack, from the moment i pull out my visor is closed, open just enough so i can breather/ not fog up at lights.

2. Open face helmets....100kph open road guys on harleys etc with open face and no bandana across thier mouth.....how the heck do you breathe, i have had my visor open when i first started riding and at 100kph it's like you mouth becomes a blimin ram air duct, i couldnt blimin breathe. Is it an aquired skill? no not breathing...breathing at blimin 100-140kph.

Serious questions.

I dont understand why you would have your visor open.

And yeah, i was just curious in regards to breathing at high speed with an open face. (lets not get into how unsafe open faces are in crashes, thats enough for a whole nother sub forum.)

Well SkidMark
First when I started rideing motorcycles, it was not law to have a helmet, and 110 MPH was comon, but most of the lads spent some money at Pride and Clark of London and got by mail order, ex RAF flying caps and goggles, after all the leather and cork motorcycle helmet on sale then were more likely to break your neck in a crash than mordern helmets.

Main trick with open face helmets if you plean to ride at 100 MPH + speeds is to do it where it is legal, as you have to have a full face for Track days that limits me to when I go to Germany, then its out with the silk scarf and safety goggle or glasses, ( Dirty Dogs make or good quality shaded glasses, and clear for low visiblity conditions, unlike here at noght you are not allowed by law to have shaded goggles or visors after dark in Germany.)

Second why do we wear open face helmets, Well Dan used to nag me to get a full face all the time, and just about every time I go into a Motorcycle Acc shop I always try to wear one, but every time same result, the moment the helmet goes on phobia kicks in and I stop breathing to the point where, if I don't get the helmet off I will pass out, ( one day I may cure it, after all I keep trying the full face helmets on)
Besides in most crashes I have been in the helmet was never damaged or even scratched, and this includes laying down the bike at about 115 MPH many yers ago, walked away without a scratch or any broken bones, Good old hobnail boots, and ex RAf leathers took all the agro.

As for wind blowing the mouth open , never had a problem, you just keep you mouth shut and breath through your nose, only problem is when you see some thing that makes you smile, then its hell getting the dead bugs out of your teath

[homer]

You just have be smarter - and harder - that the air.

About 170 in an open face you can start making music in an open mouth like exhaling into an empty bottle

actually you can at least sit on 200 and more with it open , no probs

[NordieBoy]

actually you can at least sit on 200 and more with it open , no probs

No probs at all

[WelshWizard]

actually you can at least sit on 200 and more with it open , no probs

Done 180 without a helmet.

Yeah, you heard me

I usually ride visor up untill 100kph. Maybe a bit faster if it's raining. No matter how clean the visor is, or how much you wipe it, it does reduce visibility in the rain (yes I know about all the stuff you cna rub on it).

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Back in the day, we only had open face lids, or, often as not, none. Never noticed any issues up to the ton, which was about top whack back then.

I know plenty who flip the visor up, some wear safety glasses, I do myself when it raining, you have better visibility, and thats also an advantage of an open face, better visabilty, I have evn managed to buy a flip top, but find it to restrictive to vison, and has no ear muff built in unlike my open face which has a biult in ear muff that allows low level of noise through while reducing noises over 90dcb to managable levels., as for the rain and things hitting you in the face, wear a scarf if its silk and your face gets into a slide contest with the ground you will find silk is very protective when layered, why do you think the older bullet proof vest used silk to stop a bullet.
As for Ixion's ton up being the max back then that would be MPH or 160KPH to those who have never riden under MPH speed regime