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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 10:24 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Visors in the rain Reply with quote

You know what really gets my goat? When it starts to rain and your visor gets wet and the water beads up and just sits there almost entirely blocking your view.
The options are, put up with it. Or, open your visor and just get rain directly in your eyes, rendering you unable to see in a different way.

This is by no means going to be a new problem that only affects me. Surely there's some clever stuff out there that you can bang on your visor to make the rain just disappear from it immediately - or something like that.

Does anybody know of any such thing? Cos it's summer now, so obviously I need to start thinking about it raining a lot.
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PostPosted: 10:26 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spray your visor with Pledge or Mr Sheen furniture polish - works a treat!
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PostPosted: 10:28 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recomend this

Vee Wipe

I had one and its fantastic. Sadly mine died a death and I keep meaning to replace it.
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PostPosted: 10:54 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

As above, I had one of those Vee wipes, Although didnt secure it and it flew off one night.

I also use rain-x
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PostPosted: 11:05 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Turn your head sideways so they get blasted off to the side.
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PostPosted: 11:11 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

pinkyfloyd wrote:
Recomend this

Vee Wipe

I had one and its fantastic. Sadly mine died a death and I keep meaning to replace it.


That is what i use. Had one in my jacket for years. Just remember, it goes on the left hand. Embarassed
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PostPosted: 11:14 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go faster.
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PostPosted: 11:22 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I either duck a little behind my screen to where the slip stream is turbulent and it flies off or I wipe it with my finger. Same with both methods for fog too.
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PostPosted: 11:34 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need a Turbo-Visor,
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PostPosted: 11:40 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ariel Badger wrote:
You need a Turbo-Visor,
I was with Jim last year and he signed the ad in my Feb 1967 copy of MCM for me Very Happy


Laughing Laughing my sides are aching after seeing that pic, genuinely the funniest thing i have seen in a long time.
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PostPosted: 11:44 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should have seen Jim's face when we gave it him to sign Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 11:55 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joe wrote:
Turn your head sideways so they get blasted off to the side.


+1

At 40-50 mph+ just turn your head each way and it will be clear. The spray from lorries/cars is a bitch though, tend to just wipe that if it gets too bad!
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PostPosted: 12:10 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trouble is that assumes that going 50mph is a viable option.

I found those vee wipes pretty useless as well.

Will give Mr Sheen a try.

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PostPosted: 12:20 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I need a new visor. coming home on the motorway last night I had to keep the visor up, no matter how much I wiped with my fingers I just couldn't see shit through it. Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 13:48 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't use Rain X, a friend of mine did and he had to buy a new visor.
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PostPosted: 14:02 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

cromwell wrote:
Don't use Rain X, a friend of mine did and he had to buy a new visor.


Ouch...I would of tried to get the Rain X manufacturers to cover the cost of the visor.
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raincoat from the v2 sponge people works ok, but has to be done regularly.

I also like the Bob Heath v-wipe.
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Red Devil wrote:
cromwell wrote:
Don't use Rain X, a friend of mine did and he had to buy a new visor.


Ouch...I would of tried to get the Rain X manufacturers to cover the cost of the visor.


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Can it be used on transparent plastics? top
Generally no. The increasing variety of various coatings applied to plastics makes it impossible to pre-test for compatibility under all conditions, and users should satisfy themselves by treating an area outside the normal area of vision. Please note that constant, repetitive use should be avoided due to the possible formation of stress cracking, especially on clear, curved sections.


So that would be a no then....
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can't argue with that, they should of tested it before applying it then!
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PostPosted: 15:53 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use clear view rain away, works a treat.

"for crystal clear vision through windscreens and visors"

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Vehicle-Parts-Accessories-/131090/i.html?_nkw=rain+away&_catref=1&_sc=1&_sop=15&_trksid=p3286.c0.m1538
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PostPosted: 16:42 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've found that i rarely have an issue with my visor when riding in the rain, by simply not riding in the rain.
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PostPosted: 19:22 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

A new visor works well in the rain but when it's been wiped with a glove a few times the grit from the road scratches the 'anti-scratch' coatings Laughing
so any further rain makes it more difficult to see due to refraction (and other scientific stuff).
All you can do is wipe and find a clear area to peer through.

Household polishes will encourage rain to run off but at night they will cause massive glare from street lighting and other vehicle lights.
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PostPosted: 19:28 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sako wrote:
I've found that i rarely have an issue with my visor when riding in the rain, by simply not riding in the rain.


+1

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PostPosted: 20:16 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't your gloves have a little 'windscreen wiper' on the left index finger?
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 03 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buy an MX lid and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uaYgw-0YQ-M

You could just rewind and clean/dry with a soft cloth afterwards, (like a VHS tape) then use again.
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