Off roading gear?
 

Hello gentlemen, I recently dicovered miles of forest roads not far from my house and have been rapidly improving off road but I'm having one problem in particular. I can either close my visor and quickly start overheating or leave it open even a fraction and get insects in my eyes every five seconds.

Are goggles the way to go?

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Haha, I like it. cheerss chalk two,time to go shopping.

Try the bolle tracker 2 safety glasses .....i use em for enduros and they cheap enough and dont steam up :glasses2::glasses2:

you have a link??

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bolle-tra...FYhl0wod61oDjw

They do clear lenses and dark ones but i prefer these as they sharpen everything up

I like those yellow spex. They remind me of Harley riders and days at the range. I use similar on mountain bike.......but I don't look as bad asss as a Harley rider.

I wear em all year round on enduro bike as they keep your head cool with wind flow and far better all round vision than goggles

Yep, I'll 'fess up on the vision thing. Not so bad on the trail but on the road goggles are a bit of a nuisance....for me anyway.

I actually dont mind goggles on the road but was gunna try and get a peaked helmet with visor as i now have a few road helmets to get rid of as i wont be using em

I bought a Caberg Tourmax a month ago or so. Has the peak / clear visor / flip front and an internal drop down sun visor. A very nice looking lid and well made but.....unlike my HJC, it suffered from turbulence on the peak causing too much noise and wobbly eye syndrome at speeds above 50. I reinforced the peak and fitted air dams to the bike which cured the problem.

I nearly wrote the lid off as a bad buy but it's coming into its own, especially with the lift up front. I've fitted a scala rider intercom, with boom mike, and the microphone fits in a designed slit in the chin bar, made to accept any boom mike. Check out this thread. I know it's a pain if you've spent large dollars on a lid only to find you need to go all "Blue Peter" on your bike to make life easy again.

But....I still prefer my Arai.

https://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=27601

I wear glasses all the time... but would love to find some way off not having too...other than contacts or surgery.

Over glasses may be the answer.

TBH If I ride with the visor down I tend to ride faster which I dont want..psychological I guess.

Never really thought that air could be coming up from the forks causng the wobble and blurred vision ...that perspex looks a good idea (does it stop the blurred vision/ head wobble thing) ?

It did........but after some miles under the belt I found the perspex was over the top a bit but became more of an alternative to the upper cushions. Fit one or the other but not both.....for me anyways..

Ide prob loose the cushions tbh as i do alot of off roading so gunna try the perspex thing

Made 2 of the wind fork stops yesterday and fitted ......thanks for the heads up @chalk two it makes a massive difference and can sit comfortable at 80 mph now .....your a star :SpinHappy_15XK8L:

Great to hear you've had success. Thanks for the feedback. .:023:

No probs bud...i did make em out of 5 mm perspex just to try it and its solid enough so we see how long it lasts

Yep, I would have preferred 5mm . 4mm is ok and was all i had lying around but i have to be careful not to cause stress fractures around the fixing holes by over tightening.

It seems sturdy enough up to press but i suppose time will tell....if it does break or shatter ile prob do it out of ally