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Motorcycle Balaclava Fogging: Why Your Visor Mists Up
Motorcycle balaclava fogging is one of the most misdiagnosed problems in cold-weather riding. The rider blames the visor, buys a new one, and the mist comes straight back on the next damp morning. The real cause is usually a few centimetres lower down, where warm exhaled air escapes past a fabric layer and travels up…
How to Remove a Motorcycle Helmet Visor Safely
Learning how to remove a motorcycle helmet visor is the difference between a two-minute job and a cracked side plate. Almost every visor on a modern road helmet is designed to come off by hand, without tools and without force. The problem is that each manufacturer hides the release in a slightly different place, so…
Visors That Fit KYT Helmets: 7 Fitment Groups
The visors that fit KYT helmets are not one part per helmet. They fall into seven shared-shield fitment groups, and inside a group a single replacement shield covers every shell in it. Work out which group your lid belongs to and the buying decision stops being a guess. This guide ranks those seven groups by…
Photochromic Visor Pinlock: Can You Run an Insert?
Owning a light-reactive visor and a pin-style anti-fog insert at the same time raises an obvious question: can the two work together? A photochromic visor pinlock setup is possible, but it only works when the outer visor was built with the pins the insert needs, and in plenty of cases the better answer is to…
Motorcycle Visor Cleaning Mistakes: 8 Ranked by Damage
The short answer Most motorcycle visor cleaning mistakes are not clumsy. They are sensible habits borrowed from cleaning a car windscreen or a pair of glasses, applied to a material that cannot take them. A visor is moulded polycarbonate with a thin hard coat on the outside and, on the inside, either an anti-fog coating…
Visor Markings and UK Road Use: A Reference for Great Britain
Almost every discussion of tinted motorcycle visors starts in the wrong place, with the colour of the visor. The colour is not the legal test. What decides whether a visor may be used on the road in Great Britain is the approval marking on that individual visor, and a visor with no marking is not…
Motorcycle Visor Tint and Finish Index
Motorcycle visor tint and finish index Visor tints are sold under names, not measurements. A listing offers “smoke” or “iridium” or “photochromic”, and the name is doing two jobs at once: describing what the visor looks like, and implying something about where it may be used. The first job it does adequately. The second it…
Motorcycle Visor Fitment Dataset: Verified Shared-Shield Groups and Helmet Model Index
Motorcycle visor fitment dataset: verified shared-shield groups and helmet model index Replacement visors are sold by helmet model, but helmets are not sold under one name. The same shell is often marketed under a different model name in the UK and in the United States, and several different helmets from one manufacturer frequently take a…
Photochromic Visor Night Riding: What to Expect
Photochromic visor night riding is the part of the year riders ask about most once the clocks change: the visor that saved you buying a second tint in August is suddenly the one you are looking through at 9pm on an unlit B-road. A photochromic visor is designed to sit clear when there is no…
Remove Scratches From a Motorcycle Visor: 8 Fixes Ranked
Every method that appears to remove scratches from a motorcycle visor works by removing material around the scratch. On a visor, the material being removed is the hard coat, and the hard coat is the only thing standing between the soft polycarbonate underneath and the next fly, glove or petrol-station paper towel. That is the…