Helmet Reviews & Riding Gear Expertise
Here’s the scenario every rider knows too well: you set off in grey drizzle, the sun breaks through somewhere around junction 14, and suddenly you’re squinting like you’ve just walked out of a matinee into a summer car park. A photochromic motorcycle visor is built to solve exactly that problem — a light-reactive lens that … Read more
Ride through a British drizzle at 7am and you’ll know the enemy isn’t the rain — it’s the grey soup that creeps across your visor the second you stop at a junction. That’s fogging, and it’s the single most avoidable hazard on two wheels. A universal pinlock insert for helmets is a thin, moisture-absorbing lens … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread every rider knows: you’re three miles into a cold commute, the lights are red ahead, and your visor is slowly turning into a bathroom mirror after a hot shower. That’s the moment a pinlock 70 insert for motorcycle visor earns its keep. It’s not glamorous kit — no one … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of misery that comes with riding into work on a bright Tuesday morning, squinting through a clear visor with the sun sitting directly at bumper height, then diving into a tunnel or under a railway bridge thirty seconds later and going almost blind in the sudden dark. A photochromic visor … Read more
Anyone who has ridden from a shaded, drizzly A-road into a sudden blast of low autumn sun knows the problem in half a second: your visor is either too dark or not dark enough, and there’s no time to stop and swap shields on a fast-moving dual carriageway. That’s the exact gap a photochromic visor … Read more
There’s a particular kind of frustration that only motorcyclists understand: you set off in grey drizzle with a clear visor, and twenty minutes later the sun breaks through with the subtlety of a floodlight. You’re either squinting yourself half-blind or fumbling one-handed for sunglasses you can’t actually wear under a full-face lid. A replacement photochromic … Read more
There’s a specific kind of annoyance every rider knows: setting off in grey drizzle, only to have the sun break through an hour later while you’re still wearing a clear visor built for gloom, squinting your way down an A-road with your eyes watering. A transitions visor for motorbike helmet setups exists precisely to solve … Read more
A mirrored visor for motorcycle helmet use is a face shield finished with a thin reflective metallic coating — usually silver, gold or “iridium” rainbow — that bounces back most incoming light rather than letting it all through. The result is a shield that cuts glare hard on a bright day and, frankly, looks the … Read more
There’s a particular kind of blindness that hits you exiting Craner Curves at Donington on a bright June morning — the sun sitting low over the trees, your pupils still adjusted to the shade of the paddock, and suddenly you’re threading a 130mph kink half-guessing where the apex is. A decent mirror visor for track … Read more
There’s a particular kind of smugness that comes from pulling up at the lights, visor down, catching your own reflection in a shop window, and thinking: yeah, that’ll do. A blue mirror visor for helmet setups does something a plain clear or smoke shield simply can’t — it turns a safety component into a statement … Read more