How best clean visor on helmet?

[jtzzr]

What everyone else has said. Just pull move to the left and let the wanker pass, it`s just not worth the stress, when you have a bit more experience and a slightly bigger bike , flip them the bird and smoke the focker (please don`t take this as gospel), just make sure your`e comfortable in your own space . Be safe!! , As for the visor I just use warm soapy water.

[CookMySock]

Or pull over and let the car following you past. It's alot better than stressing about it.

Stress? Problem over in under 1.4 seconds. There is no stress, only a broad grin.

Steve

[happykamper]

Although it's illegal, it is actually safer to ride without your L plate. Wanker cagers are attracted to L plates like flies to a lump of raw meat. If you are pulled over by the constabulary, you can look bemused and say it must have broken off somewhere. I have never heard of anybody being busted for riding without their L plate. Over to you to make your own risk assessment.

I totally agree about it being safer without the L-plate but BEWARE! IF your bike is insured (and it should be) then riding without L-plates on a learner licence will invalidate your insurance. Leaving you up the creek minus paddle if anything happens to you. Regardless of who's fault it is!

First ride out with an L plate on and some wanker cager in a penis extension Subaru Legacy beeped me for doing nothing worse than turning right.

Oh, did I mention that I no longer need to have an L-plate?? (but I do need a rear shock absorber though...)

[spookytooth]

I have to go with the pledge vote for visor it works well and next time you use it the bugs just slide off

[Blossom]

I have a microfiber cloth that I use with water..works great.. but dishwashing liquid if I have riden through a mob of bugs as occasionally happens.

As for the tail gaters.. I found that if moving over and letting them pass was not an option, then I would move slightly to the right so I was directly in front of the drivers side of their cage and breifly touch the rear brakes. Then repeat.. after touching the brakes 2 or 3 times the cages would back off.

[CookMySock]

I have a microfiber cloth that I use with water..works great.. but dishwashing liquid if I have riden through a mob of bugs as occasionally happens.

Hee hee, wait to you hit a couple bunches of them @120k, followed by some white butterflies, and a bumble bee or three.. Oh the carnage!

Steve

[slofox]

if I have riden through a mob of bugs as occasionally happens. :

Occasionally???? I must live in bug city then - every time I go out I come back with the helmet and the bike coated in the little buggers (no pun intended).....and time of day does not seem to make a difference......guess that's what comes of living in a swamp basin like the Y cat O.....

[vifferman]

Occasionally???? I must live in bug city then - every time I go out I come back with the helmet and the bike coated in the little buggers (no pun intended).....and time of day does not seem to make a difference......guess that's what comes of living in a swamp basin like the Y cat O.....

Yes. All that cow shit and grassland = Heaps'o'Bugz.
But your bike (or more specifically, its aerodynamics) have a part to play. The FahrtSturm was much better at directing a stream of insect-laden air right at my visor than the VFR is. Which was odd, as the VTR had a lower and narrower windshield. I suspect it has summat to do with the way the insects get spun out or escape from the upper part of the airstream over the windshield.

[beyond]

Yep, bumble bees are real messy when you cop a biggy at around 160kmh and above Sound like a gun going off too.

Hitting a blackbird at 150kmh which disintegrated on my instruments and spread the remnants over my visor and helmet was'nt pretty either Lot of guts in those blackbirds.

Once your visor has a few millemetres of bug goop on it, head for the nearest rain shower. Rain water blasts your visor real well

Tailgaters: as has been said, if your on a small bike or not confident, not a lot you can do but let them pass. On a big bike, you can leave the buggers in the dust.

[slofox]

I often use spectacle lens cleaner on my vizor - it hasn't fallen to bits yet nor gone opaque......apart from as a result of the bugs (see above) that is. Oh, and whatever you do, DON'T try to wipe the bugs off with the glove........of course I didn't try it!!!!! waddya think I am, stoooooopid???

[laRIKin]

I use to use Pledge and it is good, but now I use this stuff called Plexus.
http://ingear.co.nz/Plexus-Plastic-Cleaner.aspx
http://www.plexusplasticcleaner.com/plexus.html
It is great and can hide the fact you have small scuff marks in your visor am\nd you can tell your visor in clearer and cleaner.
A few bike shops down here sell the stuff, it is a bit more expensive but well worth the money and the can does last a long time.
Now I would not use any thing else, if I did I would go back to Pledge.

[chucky19]

My vote for Plexus too. About $27 for a can but I've used it weekly for the past 20 months and the can still feels pretty much full. Great at polishing out the wee scratches.

Cat crap on the inside.

Nothing short of a frontal lobotomy will stop a tailgater.

[Daffyd]

I found some stuff at work today...made for cleaning safety glasses. Actually, a small pre-moistened towelette in a sealed sachet.
Says on the packet, 'Anti-fog, anti-static, contains no silicone.'
Haven't tried it yet, but looks promising.
Comes in packs of 100. Labelled MCR Safety. Prolly available from NZ Safety or similar.