Helmet Hints & Tips: Difference between revisions
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*You can use Nu Finish (car wax like stuff) or Lemon Pledge. You have to reapply Pledge more often, but it gives your riding environment a nice, clean smell, especially handy in cow country. They both do the same thing - keep water vapor from collecting, and allow water to bead up and roll off more quickly. When you go faster than 50mph, and then turn your head sideways, all the water goes shooting off the side of the visor in a fraction of a second. | *You can use Nu Finish (car wax like stuff) or Lemon Pledge. You have to reapply Pledge more often, but it gives your riding environment a nice, clean smell, especially handy in cow country. They both do the same thing - keep water vapor from collecting, and allow water to bead up and roll off more quickly. When you go faster than 50mph, and then turn your head sideways, all the water goes shooting off the side of the visor in a fraction of a second. | ||
*Use Novus plexiglass polish on your windscreen and face shields. It beads up pretty nicely, and a turn of the head this way and that and the water rolls right off. | *Use Novus plexiglass polish on your windscreen and face shields. It beads up pretty nicely, and a turn of the head this way and that and the water rolls right off. | ||
*You can [http://www. | *You can buy a [http://www.aerostich.com/product.php?productid=16506&cat=444&page=1 VeeWipe Squeegee] from Aerostich, a [http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/Product/Pr-p_Product.CATENTRY_ID:2011168/c-10111/Nty-1/p-2011168/Ntx-mode+matchallpartial/N-10111/tf-Browse/s-10101/Ntk-AllTextSearchGroup?Ntt=wiper Big Bike Finger] from JC Whitney, or [http://www.instructables.com/id/wiper-glove/ modify a glove] to fit a wiper blade. | ||
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