Colored face sheilds on helmets
10-03-2006, 02:41 PM
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Colored face sheilds on helmets
Are ALL tinted screens for helmets garbage?
Whenever I got my new icon helmet about 4 months ago, I bought a gold tinted windscreen with it..
After about 2 months it started getting pretty blurry..
After 3 months, I coulden't even see through the thing..
From cleaning the front of hte helmet, it has made the gold rub off... So now its spekeled(sp) with gold dots, and makes it stupid to even use....
So im woundering, are all colors like this? If I get a silver one, will it just rub off when I clean it?
What about a regular black smoked one?
Whenever I got my new icon helmet about 4 months ago, I bought a gold tinted windscreen with it..
After about 2 months it started getting pretty blurry..
After 3 months, I coulden't even see through the thing..
From cleaning the front of hte helmet, it has made the gold rub off... So now its spekeled(sp) with gold dots, and makes it stupid to even use....
So im woundering, are all colors like this? If I get a silver one, will it just rub off when I clean it?
What about a regular black smoked one?
10-03-2006, 02:43 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by Towlieee
Are ALL tinted screens for helmets garbage?
Whenever I got my new icon helmet about 4 months ago, I bought a gold tinted windscreen with it..
After about 2 months it started getting pretty blurry..
After 3 months, I coulden't even see through the thing..
From cleaning the front of hte helmet, it has made the gold rub off... So now its spekeled(sp) with gold dots, and makes it stupid to even use....
So im woundering, are all colors like this? If I get a silver one, will it just rub off when I clean it?
What about a regular black smoked one?
Whenever I got my new icon helmet about 4 months ago, I bought a gold tinted windscreen with it..
After about 2 months it started getting pretty blurry..
After 3 months, I coulden't even see through the thing..
From cleaning the front of hte helmet, it has made the gold rub off... So now its spekeled(sp) with gold dots, and makes it stupid to even use....
So im woundering, are all colors like this? If I get a silver one, will it just rub off when I clean it?
What about a regular black smoked one?
10-03-2006, 02:47 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by Taz
mirrored sheilds are for squids, just wear sunglasses, that way you dont have to run home and switch shields when it gets dark....
10-03-2006, 02:59 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by Towlieee
I don't run home and switch shields when it gets dark... I just open mine if I can't see
10-03-2006, 03:10 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by Taz
then your doing better than some guys I know cough*cbr929dude*cough
back to the POINT!
do all colored shields **** *** after cleaning them a lot? I guess the real question is, do any helmets have the coloring on the INSIDE?
Im almost thinking of tinting my clear visor.. Woulden't have to worry about that rubbing off
10-03-2006, 03:40 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by Brian V
Any of the icon shields other than plain or tinted ****. The gold bling and the chrome will both wear off and chip.
so icon black tinted ones are goood?
10-03-2006, 04:07 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by Towlieee
so icon black tinted ones are goood?
10-03-2006, 04:11 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
^ holy **** captain riding gear...
i have a polarized arai one, it's a few years old now, so it's not as good as it used to be, but it's semi reflective, and polarized is soo sweet at night.. instead of headlights being a giant blur, you can almost see the bulb, it's just a tiny round light... u just have to wipe it with like a sunglass cloth
i have a polarized arai one, it's a few years old now, so it's not as good as it used to be, but it's semi reflective, and polarized is soo sweet at night.. instead of headlights being a giant blur, you can almost see the bulb, it's just a tiny round light... u just have to wipe it with like a sunglass cloth
10-03-2006, 04:13 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by crtchrktrcr
^ holy **** captain riding gear...
i have a polarized arai one, it's a few years old now, so it's not as good as it used to be, but it's semi reflective, and polarized is soo sweet at night.. instead of headlights being a giant blur, you can almost see the bulb, it's just a tiny round light... u just have to wipe it with like a sunglass cloth
i have a polarized arai one, it's a few years old now, so it's not as good as it used to be, but it's semi reflective, and polarized is soo sweet at night.. instead of headlights being a giant blur, you can almost see the bulb, it's just a tiny round light... u just have to wipe it with like a sunglass cloth
10-03-2006, 04:43 PM
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Re: Colored face sheilds on helmets
Originally Posted by crtchrktrcr
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