seeing in the rain!

ive always wondered how other bikers deal with heavyish prolonged rain, to the point where rain on the visor actualy restricts your view?
At slower speeds I just use my left hand to wipe my visor. When im going along with a bit of speed I find that if I tilt my head slightly to the right or left the wind blast will blow the rain off the visor and I dont need to use my hand.

anyone have any better/different methods?

Thats what I do as well.

[yorkie_chris]

About the same, that or at a stop open and close the visor a few times, the ratchet tends to flick the drops off.

Ride faster!

You can get anti-rain sprays on the visors which are meant to help

Eat more carrots ?

I'll get me coat........

Originally Posted by pencil shavings

ive always wondered how other bikers deal with heavyish prolonged rain, to the point where rain on the visor actualy restricts your view?
At slower speeds I just use my left hand to wipe my visor. When im going along with a bit of speed I find that if I tilt my head slightly to the right or left the wind blast will blow the rain off the visor and I dont need to use my hand.

anyone have any better/different methods?

At the moment, I am doing a project for my final year at uni looking into making the visor more water repellant. I have an experiment coming up (getting the stuff ordered to do it) which might well work, although the materials involed (fluoroalkylsilanes) could make the method expensive. We'll see though how it pans out. My research has been inspired by not bieng able to see when I am riding in the wet weather.

I'll keep the .org posted

Matt

Originally Posted by tricky

Eat more carrots ?

I'll get me coat........

didnt say anything about the dark, only the rain

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

At the moment, I am doing a project for my final year at uni looking into making the visor more water repellant. I have an experiment coming up (getting the stuff ordered to do it) which might well work, although the materials involed (fluoroalkylsilanes) could make the method expensive. We'll see though how it pans out. My research has been inspired by not bieng able to see when I am riding in the wet weather.

I'll keep the .org posted

Matt

sounds like a good idea, I think there would definatly be a market for anti rain products!

I use silicone spray on a clean visor,let it dry and then polish up.Not 100% but def better than nothing at all as it needs less wind force to shift the spray. If you have a faired bike put your head directly in the airstream off the screen and with the silicone spray it clears immediately

Originally Posted by pencil shavings

sounds like a good idea, I think there would definatly be a market for anti rain products!

Dicky ticker hit on a very good point; the silicone stuff (based on polysiloxanes) is a great water-repellant material, problem is it collects dirt and other crap, and is not permanent - I'm aiming to try and make a permanent coating, much like the hard / anti-scratch coating thats already present on the visor surface (this is commonly a silica-based coating).

The effect should be the same, the water will not adhere to the surface as strongly, and the water should run off easily There probably is a market, and to be honest I dont know why there isnt already such things avaliable; its possibly due to the coating not being hard enough and prone to scratches, but I'll have to investigate that at a later stage.

Matt