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I've been using this for about a week now, and I thought you guys wouldn't mind a quick review, as anti-fog is a fairly important issue.

I picked this up in my local motorcycle garage while I was in having a puncture repaired. It costs £8.99 a bottle (about $13-15, in direct translation but I've not looked at any US vendors). But the guy let me have it for £5 saying, "you spend enough in here" (damn that service schedule! Lol). So I thought I'd give it a punt until I get around to buying my pin-lock DIY kit.

My first thought was that the bottle is far too small to last, it's only 35ml (1.2 US fl.oz) and at more than a tank of petrol, I definitely wouldn't want to buy it week in, week out. But you apply it in such small amounts (about three very fine mist squirts of it coats a visor) that it'll last for ages.

You apply it by cleaning the visor, then giving it a light mist, which you rub in with a clean dry tissue. It says to not use a microfibre cloth. I have no idea why. The first time I used it, I did exactly as the instructions said and it worked fine. For about an hour, and then little bits started misting up, before I was practically blind in one eye: up went the visor.

So the second time I used it, I cleaned the visor as soon as I got in and applied the treatment, before leaving it over night (well, through the day-I was on nights at the time! Lol), and then giving it another application before I set off. This time it worked great, got me all the way to work (just over an hours riding) with the visor fully shut, lasted all night on top of my locker, and then got me all the way home again, visor fully shut, before the little spots started to mist.

The bottle claims it can last up to five days. It can't. Especially in winter riding, where you really need to clean the visor nearly every trip seeing as how mucky road spray makes everything.

So in summary: is it a good product? Very much so. It enables you ride with your visor fully shut, which is a god send if you're stuck in extreme cold, or almost constant rain (both of which are extremely painful anything over 30mph).
Would I buy it again? For my visor-probably not. It just doesn't last long enough for me to consider using this instead of a pin-lock kit, or a fog city insert (if you prefer those). HOWEVER: for all the specky four eyes out there (like myself) it is safe for use on glasses as well! And for the first few minutes of riding with the visor fully shut, your glasses mist up, until they reach the same temperature as everything else inside your helmet. So I will keep buying it, just not for my visor! Lol

I hope you find this useful, please feel free to ask any questions.

Ian

Where did you get them from mate? I'm in the UK to and always interested to find new suppliers.

Ian

My elbows get in the way of my mirrors occasionally, and if I slip into the "more speed forward lean" I really struggle to see them.

I've got a problem at the minute where my scoot was nocked over by a cager in a car park. Everything looked ok but they've damaged the right hand mirror and it keeps flopping down, so I'm forever adjusting it now.

Ian

That's all well and good until it buckets it down with rain. Or you're stuck behind a lorry shedding debris, or making spray.

Then you can choose between a fogged visor and a face full of rubbish.

Ian

Sounds like crankcase pressure issues. Your breather may be slightly blocked, or just generally struggling with pressure changes with temperature changes as you engine cools down/warms up.

You only really need to worry if its full on blowing the oil out of the dip tube, as your piston rings may be on the way out, causing pressure from combustion gases to leak in to your sump.

To give you some idea of how bad that can be on an engine, the diesel generators I used to work on while in the Navy had blast doors on the crank case to safely release pressure before the engine exploded.

Ian

Do you also believe that speed limits, stop signs, traffic lights, taxes, emergency vehicle rights of way, disabled parking priority, criminal law, etc, etc, are purely there to restrict your freedoms, or are they there for a reason? I'm just trying to figure out which rules you like to follow, and which you don't. Of course, none of these rules exist in places like Somalia and Afghanistan. Maybe you'd prefer to live there and you wouldn't have to put up with all these damn restrictions that modern living impose on you.



That literally makes no sense.

Ian.