I need to buy a dark visor

Originally Posted by Skip

Have used these in the past with no problems...

http://www.racevisors.co.uk/

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[skeetly]

I'm also about to get a tinted visor. Presently have a clear arai.
If its bright I have been wearing dark shades but I find them uncomfortable.
I see you can get a light tinted visor for arai's and then theres the black one.
Is the light tint any good? How keen are the cops if you are using a black visor?

Cheers.

[fizzwheel]

If you carry your clear visor with you and you do get stopped most likely they'll let you go without doing anything.

I've been stopped in the p*ssing rain with my iridium visor on and the copper never said a word about my dark visor, he was just checking I had tax and insurance and let me on my way again.

IMHO the safety benefits more than offset the chance / risk of being stopped for a dark visor.

Is the light tint a road legal one? If so, I'd avoid it - I chose the medium (not road legal) tint for my Shoei and if I had to choose again I would look at the dark tint a lot more seriously.

Having said that, the medium has been a good compromise - it allows enough light through that I've used it in the rain and also in the dark (but not much). It's just the recent weather that overwhelms it a little.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

You must work in a real dodgy place with some really dodge types. :P

100 % right, the amount of gear I have had to replace in the past year. I'm hoping they might be somewhere, ?125 to replace them

I will oder the visor anyway it something I need, and I can't get new glasses made up before Friday anyway. My god the credit card is taking a real beating this month

[Skip]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

IMHO the safety benefits more than offset the chance / risk of being stopped for a dark visor.

My commute is into the sun on the way to work and into the sun again on the way home - it hurts my eyes if I wear a clear visor*!!

*nothing to do with a dark visor being nice and stealth!

[skeetly]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

If you carry your clear visor with you and you do get stopped most likely they'll let you go without doing anything.

How do you carry it? The arai L type visor's pretty bulky for stiking inside your leathers no?

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

IMHO the safety benefits more than offset the chance / risk of being stopped for a dark visor.

I'll say. Riding home late on a sunny day I've been practically blind sometimes.

Right dark tint it is..............
Thanks for the advice.

hein Gericke - there'll be one by you in North London.

I ordered my mirrored for a HJC from racevisors.co.uk. Then went into HG the day after - same price. just ask in store

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by skeetly

How do you carry it? The arai L type visor's pretty bulky for stiking inside your leathers no?

I've got a pouch that the visor goes into and then you wear the pouch round your waist like a belt.

I've done this with the visor off of my Arai RX7 Corsair and My Shoei XR900

I have just ordered a dark visor It should be hear in time! It was race visors. Oh just had new tyres put on the bike, right I better get to work to pay for all of this!