Two products attempted to solve that problem. One, a circular and rotating face shield. It was supposed to fling the water off. Don't know if it worked or not, but wasn't on the market for long.
Two, a squeege mounted on the forefinger of the gloves. Again, don't know if it worked or not.
Anybody remember those?
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Duane Ausherman wrote:Two products attempted to solve that problem. One, a circular and rotating face shield. It was supposed to fling the water off. Don't know if it worked or not, but wasn't on the market for long.
Two, a squeege mounted on the forefinger of the gloves. Again, don't know if it worked or not.
Anybody remember those?
Yeah, I used to have one of the finger squeegees. It worked pretty well. They seem to have been superseded by the piece of chamois on the back of the fore-finger of a glove. I actually thought the squeegee worked better, especially on road-spray, as that's got lot of little scratchy bits in it that end up stuck in your chamois.
I think Rain-X or a similar product is the solution.
Anything mechanical is going to give trouble sooner or later.
Major Softie mentioned dirty road spray which is a bigger problem than rain, especially when there is intermittent rain to wash it off.
I have thought of mounting an appropriately curved wiper to the top of my RS fairing. For me, it would be easy to reach said wiper with my helmet.
Now, what about fogging up on the inside?
I remember years ago while riding on a very cold morning, employing controlled breathing tactics to minimise fogging when I couldn't resist, I had to have a big hearty cough. AHHHH! complete loss of vision. I quickly lifted my visor to see where I was going. AHHHHH! My glasses had fogged up as well! Talk about flying blind.
Duane Ausherman wrote:Two products attempted to solve that problem. One, a circular and rotating face shield. It was supposed to fling the water off. Don't know if it worked or not, but wasn't on the market for long.
Two, a squeege mounted on the forefinger of the gloves. Again, don't know if it worked or not.
Anybody remember those?
I remember the rotating face shied. It didn't work. the squeege on glove is fairly standard for most quality gloves.
Still inadequate, requires removing your hands from the bars, and is a distraction. I would imagine the person who can patent the solution will be well set.
I like the rubber strip on the finger of the left glove. Once, when riding up to Moro Bay, I hit fog. That is the single most terrifying circumstance I've ridden in. I was wiping my face shield as fast as I could with the rubber strip on the glove. It just covered the shield as fast as I could wipe it.
The terrifying part was that I was scared of what was in front of me and what was in back of me. I'd try to keep up with a car by watching his tail lights. That wasn't too bad, but I was worried that some yahoo would be driving fast from behind, having adopted the idea that he could go as fast as he usually does, and come what may. When I got to the motel where Gretchen was waiting for our rendezvous, I almost collapsed from fatigue.
I've ridden in rain for a whole day on the RS and enjoyed it immensely. The day I'm thinking of, I passed a sign that said "Galt, thataway". Or something like that. Soon after that, I stopped for Mexican food. What's that got to do with anything? Dude! It's raining. I go in and sit down for Mexican food. Get it? Because if you don't; I can't explain it. Oh good, you do get it. Whew!
[quote="Chuey"]I like the rubber strip on the finger of the left glove. Once, when riding up to Moro Bay, I hit fog. That is the single most terrifying circumstance I've ridden in. /quote]
Fog can be the worst, well maybe black ice, but that's when I drop all eye protection. Face shields don't work in thick fog.
I remember the "Turbo Visor" from my youthful riding days Duane.
A rotating dished and vaned perspex disc mounted on a band of metal which circled the open face helmet.
It was quite heavy, and the faster you went the faster it spun, giving an interesting gyroscopic effect to the rider's head, and if caught by a sudden gust of wind, the spinning edge would come into very painful contact with the end of the nose.
It hummed and vibrated like an amorous angle grinder, and sternly discouraged any rapid movement of the head.
An entertaining feature was that the rain which encountered the spinning vanes flew off at 90 degrees, reaching the parts that ordinary, non jet-propelled rain often misses.
Friction burns on one's proboscis make the eyes water, thus rendering this triumph of technology over reason quite superfluous.
