Wot's your visor - Tinted or Clear

[IsMad]

I have a dark and a clear with a hyperoptic insert. Always carry the clear if I think I will be out late. Tried riding off into the sun in a clear visor, could not see a Dam thing so I got the dark visor and It is so much better.

[steven182]

well i chose the wroooong visor today didn't I!!!

was nice and sunny when I woke up so went out full kit on rode out the garage and thought hmm, fog I will be okay.... it just got worse half way through my commute and had to ride with an open visor =\

oh well it was "interesting" hehe and cold...

[dern]

steven182 said:

well i chose the wroooong visor today didn't I!!!

was nice and sunny when I woke up so went out full kit on rode out the garage and thought hmm, fog I will be okay.... it just got worse half way through my commute and had to ride with an open visor =\

oh well it was "interesting" hehe and cold...

Why didn't you stop and change it for the clear one?

[steven182]

dern said:

steven182 said:

well i chose the wroooong visor today didn't I!!!

was nice and sunny when I woke up so went out full kit on rode out the garage and thought hmm, fog I will be okay.... it just got worse half way through my commute and had to ride with an open visor =\

oh well it was "interesting" hehe and cold...

Why didn't you stop and change it for the clear one?

because i am an idiot and didn't take it with me....

[m3psm]

I use the black visor from Spring to Autumn and the cleat on the shorther days.

I usually wait until I get caught out once by the dark in Autumn, then switch. This year I switched about a week ago due to some early starts.

The black visor does look a 100 times better though

[Rach*]

Black visor here, been caught out once when the weather turned, torrential rain, low clouds, dark, scary!

Treating myself to a new lid

[sprinter885]

Another vote for the Caberg Justy GT here.
Frankly I can't see why all helmet manufacturers can't include an internal flip up sun visor.
It's so obvious & easy to use -especially in alternate light conditions, it saves carrying spares and this eternal debate about clear vs dark.
(plus you can ride around with main visor up & still keep sun visor down for a bit of air..) JMHO

Mind you-this morning any visor was a bloody nuisance riding to work in light fog & every few seconds having to clear water off it...

Edited by sprinter885 on Friday 26th September 10:00

[steven182]

sprinter885 said:

Another vote for the Caberg Justy GT here.
Frankly I can't see why all helmet manufacturers can't include an internal flip up sun visor.
It's so obvious & easy to use -especially in alternate light conditions, it saves carrying spares and this eternal debate about clear vs dark.
(plus you can ride around with main visor up & still keep sun visor down for a bit of air..) JMHO

Mind you-this morning any visor was a bloody nuisance riding to work in light fog & every few seconds having to clear water off it...

Edited by sprinter885 on Friday 26th September 10:00

I thought the reason they do not put it on is because it makes that top area/forehead area not quite as strong as just solid material. makes sense to me anyway and I don't think i would buy one.

[VerySideways]

Arai full face with iridium visor.

Also have my old Arai with a clear visor for those occasional night rides, for example to the petrol station (hate filling up first thing in the morning on the way to work!).

[sprinter885]

Maybe, but if Schuberth and a couple of others as well as Caberg can do it I can't see how there can be a strength issue.

[Andy OH]

Always use a dark visor in daylight but this time of year I always carry a clear visor in case of being caught out

[rsv gone!]

Andy OH said:

Always use a dark visor in daylight but this time of year I always carry a clear visor in case of being caught out

Likewise.

I also used to have one of those iridium ones which was great (not legal tint) but it scratched really easily.

[scorcher]

Tip of the week from the Bike Cop I just done my "Ride to Arrive" course with.......Buy an "E" marked light tint visor and then use a tinted pinlock with it to make it darker.Most coppers are ignorant of the law that says the visor is then illegal because the "E" marked visor has been technically modified.

[Istvan24]

steven182 said:

sprinter885 said:

Another vote for the Caberg Justy GT here.
Frankly I can't see why all helmet manufacturers can't include an internal flip up sun visor.
It's so obvious & easy to use -especially in alternate light conditions, it saves carrying spares and this eternal debate about clear vs dark.
(plus you can ride around with main visor up & still keep sun visor down for a bit of air..) JMHO

Mind you-this morning any visor was a bloody nuisance riding to work in light fog & every few seconds having to clear water off it...

Edited by sprinter885 on Friday 26th September 10:00

I thought the reason they do not put it on is because it makes that top area/forehead area not quite as strong as just solid material. makes sense to me anyway and I don't think i would buy one.

Quick update on the Justissimo GT for those of you who own one or are considering it - careful with the lever for raising/lowering the internal visor.

The lever is made of very brittle plastic - mine has broken off around its fixing screw. I'm going to build a replacement out of metal if I don't get a response from Caberg. Not best pleased but as always, ya gets what ya pays for...!

[AndiSun]

I just bought the new Arai Dean Thomas Lid and looking for a Light smoke visor.
I currenty have the stock visor on with the Anti fog lense put in.
Never thought the Anti fog insert would work but its great and puts me off getting a tinted visor.

On my old lid i have the tinted visor on perminantly, day or night as its a very light tint.

Edited by AndiSun on Sunday 26th October 08:13

[Buggy52]

Wear dark visor in bright light and take my clear with me everywhere - just incase

[Speed addicted]

catso said:

Dark visors are a safety aid not a hindrance, whatever the law says on this is wrong, personally my eyes are very sensitive to bright light and if I wear a clear visor in bright daylight my eyes run and I struggle to see and so would be more likely to crash, sunglasses under a clear visor is a poor alternative for many reasons.

Same here, I get headaches in bright light (also burn really badly, have little tolerance for the sun!). I've tried sunglasses but they're crap. Now I just go for the darkest visor available and wear it in everything bar torrential rain and darkness.
There is a reactolite visor insert available but it only goes to a light tint (same as the glasses) and it wasn't dark enough for me.
If I intend to do a long run or might be out when it gets dark I'll carry a clear visor too.

Anyone use yellow visors for bad weather?

Edited by Speed addicted on Sunday 26th October 09:06

[RizzoTheRat]

I use a dark one in daylight unless it's very overcast. Always carry a clear one though.

Agree the law is stupid. You can legally wear sunglasses, but if you suddenly go in to a dark tunnel or treeline I can lift my visor and see, if I was wearing sunglasses I'd have to stop, take off my prescription sunglasses and put on my clear prescription glasses. Which one's more likely to happen?

I've been wearing black visors for years (apart from a few years with a nice blue irridium) and never once been stopped for it so I reckon the police generally think the same thing. As long as you're not wearing one and night you've got to be bloody unlucky to get done for it. Mind you I have road leagal cans and plate, if you get stopped for them and you've also got a dark visor on they might decide to do you for that as well.

[Stu R]

clear, mirror or dark depending on the weather / light. Used clear most of this year as whenever I've been out there's been the chance of not getting back until it's dark, and I don't carry other visors with me.

[WhiteBaron]

Caberg V2 Raptor - Job done!!

have owned mine for 18 months with no major issues. Seems to get quite a lot of wind noise but that might just be the screen on my bike, either way earplugs fix that.