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LimitlessFox
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PostPosted: 18:46 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Visor Opinions? Reply with quote

What do you guys think are appropriate visors to have?

Dark tint? Half tint? Mirrored? Clear?

I have the option of a free one and I'm thinking half tint would be the most useful...
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PostPosted: 18:53 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 18:55 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clear.
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PostPosted: 18:56 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clear and use a tinted pinlock. Then if you do get caught out after dark you can just pull out the pinlock.
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clear.
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PostPosted: 19:05 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use a clear and a dark tint, depending on conditions.
Sunny day, go out with the tint on, clear in the tailpack if it's likely to be dark before getting to my destination.
Dull day, clear only.

I find light tints not very effective on a day when I think I'll need tinted.
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PostPosted: 19:24 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Helmet has a clear visor with clear pinlock and a dark tinted sunvisor...Got all bases covered. Wink
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PostPosted: 20:09 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blue. No! Yello-AAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

Probably clear, but I do likes a bit of yellow tint. It makes everything look like daffodils and springtime.
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PostPosted: 20:19 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now if only there was a magical visor to take care of all the highbeam twerps.
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PostPosted: 20:35 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jmon wrote:
Now if only there was a magical visor to take care of all the highbeam twerps.

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PostPosted: 20:56 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jmon wrote:
Now if only there was a magical visor to take care of all the highbeam twerps.


Yellow actually does a reasonable job of it.
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PostPosted: 21:01 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like an iridium like it's 1999 but unless the sun is low I'll wear the clear visor and carry the flashy one. Reduces dazzle without making the world grey, I reckon. Iridium also makes drivers notice and move over. Seriously.
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PostPosted: 21:05 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just have a clear visor and in bright sunlight wear sun glasses.
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PostPosted: 21:18 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Black/80% tint in 24/7. Don't have space for a clear visor.
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PostPosted: 21:28 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

So far clear with appropriate lenses in my cycling glasses. I could get a number of visors but it's easier to carry my stack of 7 lens sets for those than a single visor
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PostPosted: 22:06 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clear, as well.

Buy sun glasses if you feel the need to protect your eyes from the very natural UV light. Thumbs Up

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Now if only there was a magical visor to take care of all the highbeam twerps.


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PostPosted: 22:25 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

RhynoCZ wrote:


Buy sun glasses if you feel the need to protect your eyes from the very natural UV light. Thumbs Up



Yes sir! Right away sir! I'll throw away my tinted visor and buy sunglasses now that you have ordered me to!

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PostPosted: 22:29 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clear + clear pinlock in winter coz night time all the goddamn time and face gets too cold too quick to even open it a crack. Multicoloured fag one in summer because it looks the bomb Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:32 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
Yes sir! Right away sir! I'll throw away my tinted visor and buy sunglasses now that you have ordered me to!

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Think of it this way, when the sun goes down, you just take the glasses off. But if you've got a tinted visor, you'll see next to nothing when the night comes. I know people who have tinted visors and when the dark comes they just have 2 rules for riding. The ''white'' lights to pass on the right and the red lights pass on the left (vice versa in the UK). That's just ridiculous.
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PostPosted: 22:52 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Used to be tinted visor and clear visor at night, then I discovered visor sun strips and never need to change my clear one now (no quick release on the current lid anyway).

Tints look good and they make the world look less scary somehow Confused but they only really work during summer months, and even then when it was raining or even on tree lined roads it was pretty $hit.
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PostPosted: 22:53 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mirror iridium for me, Never been pulled for it, ever, I do carry a clear one for the darkness though.
Got caught out once, in Cyprus, went to the bike club straight from work, it was dark when I left, I could barely see on the roads with street lighting, once I got out in the sticks I couldn't see a bleedin' thing.
I had to go visorless for the last 8 miles, all I will say is there are a helluva lot of insects flying round Cyprus at night!!!!!
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PostPosted: 23:11 - 28 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

At the moment clear beacause it's either overcast or dark when ever I'm on the bike but one spring rears its head the dark smoke will be going back on

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