Have tinted visors been banned?

**Katman** · 16th January 2010, 17:54

Tinted visors are great in full daylight but need to be treated with caution.

I did the ride down to Whangamomona one day with my full tint visor and rode into the tunnel along the way and suddenly shit myself when I discovered I couldn't even see the front of the bike that I was sitting on.

**Elysium** · 16th January 2010, 18:07

I just wear shades in my helmet. Helps when riding in evening so when it get dark later on you can just remove sunnies. Tinted visors suck real bad if you get caught out late in when it gets dark.

**shafty** · 16th January 2010, 18:11

Wow, I was going to ask the current price for a Visor - thats HUGE!

**Katman** · 16th January 2010, 18:12

Originally Posted by Elysium

Tinted visors suck real bad if you get cought out late in when it gets dark.

Absolutely.

That same day, coming back late, I had to ride with the visor up.

With the amount of bugs out that night I thought I was likely to lose an eye.

**shafty** · 16th January 2010, 18:17

I ride with my Visor up anyhow, I love the wind - and wear a faithful pair of orange tinted shades, which are great in the late afternoon/at the end of the day, as they suck untold light into my vision.

An electric screen helps. The bad news is, the said faithful shades finally broke recently after years and years.....

**slofox** · 16th January 2010, 18:24

If I wear my prescription sunnies under a clear visor, they distort vision to hell 'cause they are polarizing lenses...not so good.

My regular specs are photochromic, and do help quite a bit, but I'd still like a tinted visor for daytime riding...

**slofox** · 16th January 2010, 18:26

Originally Posted by shafty

I ride with my Visor up anyhow,.

I don't. Not after riding into a swarm once...

MD · 16th January 2010, 18:37

Í'm starting to wonder if today's motorcyclists are the same breed of folk that tried for centuries to deny that the world was round?

Only last century they designed helmets with internal sun visors - get with the times, get with the program. They work. It's that simple.

A late evening ride back over the hill and I flick the visor up, down, up, down between corners where I know I'm about 2 seconds away from sunstrike or sudden shade. Wow, it takes all of 0.7 seconds to operate. Not that difficult. You would think that todays' informed motorcyclists should be able to catch on.

I'm just waiting for a helmet to come out that can cure this %$#@$ crap weather!

**Elysium** · 16th January 2010, 18:40

Originally Posted by slofox

If I wear my prescription sunnies under a clear visor, they distort vision to hell 'cause they are polarizing lenses...not so good.

My regular specs are photochromic, and do help quite a bit, but I'd still like a tinted visor for daytime riding...

Ugly Fish shades are good. I had one myself until I lost them on the Rimutaka hills

**KiWiP** · 16th January 2010, 18:55

I've got a Shark S650 which has the option to fit an external sun visor on top of the original (clear visor)
Great concept (much like the internal visor on high end lids) but it has flaws
1. it wobbles about a bit when in the raised position and have the feeling it would rip itself off above 100Kmh
2. there's two visors to keep clean
3. as it sits on top of the clear visor it is scratching the protective coating of the clear visor along the leading edge. This isn't in the sight line but it is annoying.

It's $40 cheaper than a 'proper' sun visor but I can't recommend it. Especially as the Shark has an excellent clip on/off visor system anyway so when it gets dark it's only 30s to change visors if needed. Or have a decent pair of aviators

**pritch** · 16th January 2010, 19:08

Originally Posted by Katman

I did the ride down to Whangamomona one day with my full tint visor and rode into the tunnel along the way and suddenly shit myself when I discovered I couldn't even see the front of the bike that I was sitting on.

Have I got this right? You were surprised that you couldn't see in the dark with a full tinted visor?

**onearmedbandit** · 16th January 2010, 20:33

Originally Posted by Swoop

Didn't you have that problem with an imported pommy cop, that was using the UK law here?

Nah that was sniper.

**jamiey** · 16th January 2010, 20:42

Glasses / specs have been on the market for years that are clear but tint themselves in the sun, probably old technology now. Wonder if any of the helmet manufacturers have or are going to use it????

**steve_t** · 16th January 2010, 20:55

Those "Transition" glasses used to be terrible. I hope they're better now. I remember some kid had some when I was at school and they were always going dark while he was sitting in class. There are also some progressively tinted visors available