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Motorcycle Visor Part Number: How to Find and Read It
Every replacement visor conversation starts in the same place: you have a helmet, you need a new visor, and you are not certain which one fits. The fastest answer is usually already in your hands, moulded into the plastic of the visor you are trying to replace. Learning to read a motorcycle visor part number…
Modular Helmet Visor Replacement: A Fitment Guide
Modular helmet visor replacement looks like the same job as swapping the screen on a full-face, right up to the moment you try it. A flip-front helmet carries a chin bar that moves, a second tinted screen hidden inside the shell, and a base plate that was designed around both of those things. Get the…
How to Measure Helmet Visor Fitment (and When Not To)
Riders usually reach for a tape measure at the same moment: the helmet label has worn away, the old visor is scratched, and nothing on either part says what it is. Working out how to measure helmet visor fitment feels like the obvious next step, and it is where most people waste an afternoon. A…
Helmet Visor Base Plate: How to Identify Your Mechanism
A helmet visor base plate is the small mechanism on each side of the shell that the visor clips into, and it decides whether a replacement visor mounts at all. Riders tend to think about the visor and forget the plate, which is how a visor that looks right in a photograph ends up refusing…
Discontinued Helmet Visor Replacement: How to Find One
Discontinued helmet visor replacement is less of a dead end than it looks. A helmet can leave the shop shelves years before its visor does, because manufacturers design one shield to cover several models and keep making it for the newest of them. The real work is finding out which shield your helmet takes, and…
Same Helmet Different Names? 8 Visor Fitment Groups
The short answer Same helmet different names is one of the most expensive small confusions in helmet ownership. A rider searches for a visor using the name printed on the box, finds nothing, and assumes the part is discontinued. The helmet is usually sold in other markets under a different name, and the visor for…
Anti-Fog Spray Not Working? Causes and Lasting Fixes
If your anti-fog spray is not working the way it did when you first applied it, the coating has almost certainly worn away rather than gone bad in the bottle. A sprayed anti-fog film is a sacrificial surface treatment. It sits on top of the polycarbonate, it is thinner than a human hair, and every…
Motorcycle Visor Tint Options: 7 Finishes Ranked
The short answer Motorcycle visor tint options are not stocked evenly, and the gap between what is easy to buy and what you can actually use on the road in Great Britain is wider than most riders expect. We counted every finish offered across all 648 published listings on this site. Clear leads at 272…
Anti-Fog Insert vs Coating: Which Stops Visor Fog?
Fog on the inside of a visor has two mainstream fixes, and riders rarely get a straight comparison of them. The anti fog insert vs coating question comes down to two different pieces of physics. One adds a second lens sealed against the visor with an air gap behind it; the other treats the surface…
Motorcycle Visor Rain: 7 Fixes Ranked for Wet Rides
Motorcycle visor rain problems are rarely one problem. You set off in drizzle, the drops bead and run, and for a while the ride is fine. Then you slow for a junction, the airflow drops away, and the inside of the visor greys over at exactly the moment you need to look twice for a…