Cutting down glare?

[tripe]

A couple of years ago I put a band of black electrical tape across the top of the visor to reduce daylight glare especially when riding into the afternoon late summer sun, I soon noticed that it really helped when riding at night against the oncoming headlight glare, and now when it becomes too much a little dip of the head blocks it just like the sun visor of a car. Never been a problem since.

[Man-of-Mystery]

A couple of years ago I put a band of black electrical tape across the top of the visor to reduce daylight glare especially when riding into the afternoon late summer sun, I soon noticed that it really helped when riding at night against the oncoming headlight glare, and now when it becomes too much a little dip of the head blocks it just like the sun visor of a car. Never been a problem since.

Worth considering!

M-o-M

[winger]

Have used the same thing for years,find the right level by useing electrical tape on the inside of the visor to find the right level,when your happy but a sheet of fablon and cut to shape and stick on the outside.

If you have an Arai you can buy and insert that goes between the shell and the padding that does exactly the same,just means when you draw up at the traffic lights and open your visor you still have it cut the glare out as opposed to it going up with visor.

The problem being this aftermarket insert isn't deep enough,so after half a dozen attempts made my own out of a piece of opaqe black plastic,i've done a fair bit with a visor manafacturer over the years,but they found out these little inserts have a patent in Germany!!!,so nowhere days i have a custom iridium one made that keeps the sun etc out but still lets some light in.

[RoLoo]

...and a link : LINK HERE

[Man-of-Mystery]

Thanks winger.

Ron, that's pretty much the same deal as the sodium lens in my cycle-racing spex. Thanks mate.

M-o-M

[SteveH]

I mentioned in another thread that I am well into middle age. One of the things I have noticed with the march of time is that my night vision is getting worse. Add to that the fact that car headlights seem to have got brighter over the past couple of decades, and the resulting problem is blinding glare from oncoming traffic. This is damn dangerous!

Part of the problem with glare seems to come from light being diffused by my own helmet visor. I have noticed this no matter what visor I try, old or brand new. I have experimented with clear cycle-racing spex, and found that a surface closer to my eyes does not suffer from the same diffusion; flipping the visor up momentarily gives a good comparison.

I have had some relief by switching the lens in the cycle spex to sodium yellow, and wearing those behind my visor. But even that is far from perfect.

Do any of you have any other suggestions how to cut down glare from oncoming headlights?

M-o-M

Given that the problem only occurs with a visor, not with anything closer to the eye it is possible that part of the problem is that your eye is reacting to the reflection of your face on the inside of the visor. This would have two effects. First it would increase the level of illumination and cause the pupil to contract more than would otherwise be the case. Second, the brain would be having more difficulty than need be trying to pick out the image it needs from all the background clutter. If you are not already doing so , perhaps wearing one of those black cotton balaclavas might help to reduce this effect. Could panic the forecourt folks though.

[Man-of-Mystery]

Very unlikely, although internal reflection due to refraction is sometimes a slight problem with a strong light or sunshine from the side. Thanks for the thought, though.

By the way, my helmet is an expensive Arai, built to have a flow of air around my head. It would be a bit daft to cancel that out with a balaclava!

M-o-M

[PBBoxer]

Are there any cheap Arais?

[Man-of-Mystery]

nope

[PBBoxer]

ah ok, so "by the way way the helmet is an Arai " would have done the job hehe

[Man-of-Mystery]

Nope. I was showing off.