What are tinted visors like in the dark?

**Indiana_Jones** · 8th August 2011, 08:54

Looks total bad arse....

-Indy

**Daffyd** · 8th August 2011, 08:54

Only disadvantage is with my big hooter it gets sunburnt through the visor and the reflection from the sunnies.

**Cheshire Cat** · 8th August 2011, 10:12

In big cities with a lot of street lights it's ok but you're peripheral vision is very limited which makes it dangerous and in areas where there is little or no light is just a bad idea.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 8th August 2011, 10:23

they'r freakin terrible.

**Cheshire Cat** · 8th August 2011, 10:28

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

they'r freakin terrible.

I love them!

**The Singing Chef** · 8th August 2011, 10:38

I have no problem with them at night, unless as said above on country roads, have only done that once by accident. depends on what visor you are using though, i have a rainbow tinted visor which is pretty shit at night compared to my tinted with pinlock which is pretty good. Helps with those pesky high beams too.

**bogan** · 8th August 2011, 10:48

My guess is it depends on the tint. The one I have is a 60% tint, so it blocks 60% of the light. Good when you want to block it, shit when it's dark and you don't! Do they do reactive tinting like on glasses yet? that sort of thing would work brilliantly!

**Maha** · 8th August 2011, 11:07

Originally Posted by bogan

My guess is it depends on the tint. The one I have is a 60% tint, so it blocks 60% of the light. Good when you want to block it, shit when it's dark and you don't! Do they do reactive tinting like on glasses yet? that sort of thing would work brilliantly!

.....no, but you can get magnified ones for those with poor eye sight.

**The Singing Chef** · 8th August 2011, 11:09

Originally Posted by bogan

My guess is it depends on the tint. The one I have is a 60% tint, so it blocks 60% of the light. Good when you want to block it, shit when it's dark and you don't! Do they do reactive tinting like on glasses yet? that sort of thing would work brilliantly!

I have seen something about that somewhere (not alot of help am I?) i think they are bringing out inserts for visors, or already installed perhaps. expensive i could imagine

**rossirep** · 8th August 2011, 11:09

at the end of the day if you wanna be totally safe you should use a clear visor all the time just in case you end up riding to long and get caught out at night, or if it starts to rain, but we all know clear visors aint cool and look stupid on a cool helmet,
in my 20 years of road riding i think all my helmets have had dark or coloured visors on them and if it rains or gets dark i just deal with it, slow down or lift the visor up, but each to their own...

**The Singing Chef** · 8th August 2011, 11:15

Originally Posted by rossirep

at the end of the day if you wanna be totally safe you should use a clear visor all the time just in case you end up riding to long and get caught out at night, or if it starts to rain, but we all know clear visors aint cool and look stupid on a cool helmet,
in my 20 years of road riding i think all my helmets have had dark or coloured visors on them and if it rains or gets dark i just deal with it, slow down or lift the visor up, but each to their own...

I'll often carry spare visors with me, just have to make sure it's for the right helmet

**wanpo** · 8th August 2011, 12:14

Somewhere along a ride down to Tauranga, my clear visor fell out of my backpack that managed to unzip itself -_- so I'm left with two, a half-tint pin-lock visor which I find works ok at daytime, but is brilliant at night (doesn't seem to make anything darker, just changes its colour tone)
and a full tint, which is great during the day, but I can't see shit come night fall. As such I havn't had it in my helmet since winter started (I often leave work after it's gone dark.) So bad infact that on a couple of occasions I have swapped helmets with my pillion just to be able to see (leaving me wearing pitch black leathers and this helmet)

**The Singing Chef** · 8th August 2011, 12:21

Originally Posted by wanpo

Somewhere along a ride down to Tauranga, my clear visor fell out of my backpack that managed to unzip itself -_- so I'm left with two, a half-tint pin-lock visor which I find works ok at daytime, but is brilliant at night (doesn't seem to make anything darker, just changes its colour tone)
and a full tint, which is great during the day, but I can't see shit come night fall. As such I havn't had it in my helmet since winter started (I often leave work after it's gone dark.) So bad infact that on a couple of occasions I have swapped helmets with my pillion just to be able to see (leaving me wearing pitch black leathers and this helmet)

Hahaha that would have looked great!! my phone fell out of my pocket on the way to Tauranga...not so good either