Riding at night and in the Rain

[Old man]

Also try getting an insert for you helmet. All Arai helmets now come with an insert, What you do is you clean the inside thoroughly, make sure there is absolutly nothing on the inside then you fit these insert on the inside of the visor which seals all the way round and effectivly makes your visor double glazed. I used to have fogging problems all the time, now with this new visor on a freezing night you can breath as much as you want and still dont get the fogging. Fantastic idea. As for bright lights at night on the rain i just make sure i have a clean visor and wipe with one finger.

What just did occur to me was on Grand Designs special ECO show a month or so ago they were demonstrating this special solution that they put on conservatory glass roofs to keep them from getting crap stuck to them. It basicly made them super slippy so anything would run off instantly. It was clever to watch they poured a small amount of these tiny gel crystal things then dripped a couple of drops of this solution on top. They guy rubbed his hands together like you would putting hand cream on then showed his hands. He said they just felt completely normal not coated or anything. Next they dropped some water on. Instead of soaking up and running through the tiny gaps on his hand it formed perfect water droplets, when he tipped his hand up it ran off. It was freaky to watch. But im thinking i wonder if you can get some of this same stuff and mix a solution to put on your visor.

I ve had  a look at the GD page cant find anything about the 'Solution' any chance you can chase it up? Also asked about the inserts? so far no luck. What are they called?

Old man

[Kasumi]

ProGrip i think they are called make them or FogCity something like that, i certinally know progrip do. Give them a google and see what comes up, theyre not that expensive and worth a try, you want a special anti-fog one though, as ProGrip make plain old reflective/tinted inserts which just fix around the inside and work as sunglasses but arn't sealed so don't anti-fog v.well. You can tell the anti-fog inserts because they seal all the way round the entire insert when fixed to the inside of your visor. This means that its air tight between the visor and the insert and thus works like double glazing.

Il have to chase up that solution. I cant remeber what its called so il keep googling it and if i find it around il drop it in this thread.

[Kasumi]

This is the shiz niz!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl35HS-3Mrc

So what your looking for is Lotus-Effect coating, or the solution you can buy which they use in this video to coat your visor in. Then no water dropplets at all will stick to the visor.

[Kasumi]

http://www.ntiausa.com/products.html

There ya go, they are developing superhydrophobic spray. Thats the stuff you want, if you can find someone who makes that spray then your onto a winner. Spray on your visor, leave it to evaporate dry and then you will have a water repellant visor where dropplets will wizz off as fast as they can hit it.

[Nickers777]

They use the same stuff on passenger jet airliners... on the flight deck windows.
Magic stuff.. works a real treat 

[Toogoofy317]

I know this is really old. But, for night riding I use my Oakley's with the yellow/amber lenses. They work really really well in the dark don't know if they are polorized but they are hi definition lenses. don't know the difference. I use the half jackets so I have three sets of lenses saves alot too. Lenses are 40 a pair and whole sets 105! Got one for bright days, one for cloudy, and night. The frames are virtually indestructible stepped on them by accident bout three times. lens pops out and reforms!

Hope this helps out!

Mary