Lydia Callaghan’s father passed away four years ago. For most of his life, he was remarkably healthy and active, spending much of his 73 years swimming, biking, and playing tennis. He did not, however, take care to protect himself from the sun’s damaging UV rays, and ultimately lost his life to skin cancer. Callaghan wants to save avid cyclists from her father’s fate. She’s created the Bouclier visor, a snap-on screen that blocks 98 percent of UV rays and attaches to any bike helmet. Bouclier isn’t a dorky plastic rim found on golf courses; the minimalist, chrome-colored shield makes your standard headgear look more like a motorcycle helmet. Scan the market for clip-on bike helmet visors, and you’ll find few products bigger than a typical baseball hat brim. You’ll even find floppy hat brims that wrap around helmets. Those are all stop-gap solutions—accessories that will tide you over until it’s time to apply more sunscreen. Callaghan wanted something with full coverage, akin to the solar face shields women often wear in Asia.

To reach as many people as possible, Callaghan decided against designing a new helmet, which would have entailed a bigger initial investment and competing with established brands. 1930 henderson motorcycle for saleInstead, Callaghan, who lives in Palo Alto, California, settled on creating a product that works with any existing helmet. used motorcycles for sale in youngstown ohioShe assembled a crack team to do it: a product engineer and adviser who had worked at design consultancy IDEO, two mechanical engineers formerly of design firm Frog, and an industrial designer from Huge Design. motorcycles for sale in quincy illinois

Callaghan is currently raising funds on Kickstarter, where the visor costs $49; motorcycle jackets phillip islandat retail, it’ll go for $75.gta 5 motorcycle helmet A slew of design considerations go into making a one-size-fits-all accessory people will wear over their face while in motion. motorcycle shop melrose aveThe visor had to fit both athletic, aerodynamic helmets and the rounder, more fashionable ones. dv motorcycle boots“We wanted to keep the footprint on the helmet as small and elegant as possible,” Callaghan says, so Bouclier hinges on a pair of mounts permanently attached to the helmet using the same 3M adhesive GoPro uses as its mounting material.

Callaghan says her design team initially tried magnets (“because they’re so delightful and gadgety”), but they failed to stay put. The actual snaps also had to have a Goldilocks-like level of snugness: too loose, and the visor would fly off in high winds; too tight ,and it wouldn’t pop off in the case of a collision, creating the risk of further crash-related complications. The visor also needs to allow for plenty of airflow, so that cyclists don’t feel claustrophobic and short of breath while pedaling. Callaghan says getting the shape and angle of the visor right was a matter of iterating again and again. The final device tapers up toward the wearer’s cheeks, letting air breeze through the side. If more air is needed, the pivot mechanism should come in handy. To those loathe to wearing helmets—half of American cyclists don’t wear them—Bouclier could be a hard sell. After all, they could just wear sunscreen. But Callaghan says that sunscreen is effective only when consistently reapplied, and that a Bouclier visor “can’t sweat off or degrade over time.”

That might not entice a commuter who rides for 15 minutes to and from work everyday, but it could appeal to serious riders pedaling long distances. To riders worried about their looks, Callaghan would point out that once upon a time, sunglasses were thought of as a safety measure. “They protect us all from melanoma of the eye,” she says. “However, most of us wear them because they look cool.”Open the tools menu in your browser. This may be called “Tools” or use an icon like the cog or menu bars Select the option or tab named “Internet Options (Internet Explorer)”, “Options (Firefox)”, “Preferences (Safari)” or “Settings (Chrome)”. Look for a box or option labeled “Home Page (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari)” or “On Startup (Chrome)”. ” and click OK. If you need further help setting your homepage, check your browser’s Help menu when you choose at checkout. Dispatched from and sold by MK Direct. Universal 3-Snap Flip Visor For Open Face Motorcycle Helmets (Clear)

Visit our Car & Motorbike Store for a wide selection of top products, including car parts, travel essentials, maintenance tools and much more. 54,649 in Car & Motorbike (See top 100) in Car & Motorbike > Motorbikes, Accessories & Parts > Protective Clothing > Helmet Visors Date First Available3 April 2016 Flip up universal visor with integrated peak for open face helmets. Automotive > Motorbikes, Accessories & Parts > Protective Clothing > Helmet Visors What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? VIPER RS-04 Open Face Motorbike Scooter Helmet See the customer review This very smartly put-together retro full-face helmet comes to us from Portugal-based helmet manufacturer NEXX. And given the way the Bell Bullitt and Biltwell Gringo have taken over parts of the motorcycle market like wild Kudzu, you can expect to see a lot more of this helmet this season. And for good reason. We’re excited to be the first U.S. stocking shop and received our first shipment in early January.

The X.G100 come complete with both with a removable peak as well as a snap-on Lexan shield—the same material the company uses on its top-end race helmets. Helmets will come with 60% light-tint lenses stock and both clear and 80% dark-tint options will be available shortly after the helmet is released in early January 2016. Compared to the X.G100’s obvious category competitors this new entry comes in $50 less than the Bell Bullitt. They eye port isn’t quite as big on the X.G100 as on the Bullitt, but the chin bar is much beefier—both in size and strength. Both are otherwise quite similar. Leather touches on the interior, shell construction pulled from higher-end helmets (Bell uses a fiberglass composite, NEXX uses a quad-mix is says is made up of fiberglass, “organic fibers,” Kevlar and carbon. Both come with dual DOT and ECE ratings. In the other corner is The Biltwell Gringo S, which comes with an integrated shield and costs a full 150 fewer dollars. It also comes with one fewer safety rating—DOT only—and a unsettling propensity for a good number of riders’ jaws to wag out the bottom of the helmet.

Same happens for some with the Bullitt. That simple flat bottom shape gives those helmets a classic look, but comes at some sacrifice to full-face coverage. Fit wise, the X.G100 offers a more comprehensive feeling fit than both the Gringo and the Bullitt, with more pad contact at the jawline, and a chin-bar the covers more chin. With classic styling not too dissimilar from the now-defunct Ruby, the XG100 is a fraction of the cost of those stratospherically priced Vietnam-made/French-painted status symbols. We’ve gotten some time with some test samples and can say these feel solidly put together. Even the leather tabs sewn into the elastic straps on the shields seems well done. It helps that NEXX produces everything in-house in its mainland-Europe manufacturing facility. The shield is reassuringly thick and well braced with a gasket on the perimeter and a solid leather-lined ledge to socket into on the helmet. The EPS liner comes in only one size (sizes S-XL are distinguished by their interior padding only), and we found it to be a bit of a forehead pincher until broken in, but with a little break-in these are comfortable and surprisingly quiet.

Probably best suited for city riding with sunglasses instead of a shield for better airflow. It'll do well on the open road, too, with the surprisingly effecteive snap-on shield in place. They eyeport is still plenty wide and the optional included peak give this helmet a hint of dirtbike punk rock but with plenty of protection. Coming in at approximately 1200 grams with a reasonable price tag (considering, you know, it’s your head) and with dual DOT and ECE safety ratings, the X.G100 presents few objections. Here’s one more reason to never wear an open face helmet again. *We've teamed up with our friend, painter Frank Favale, who has paintakingly recreated the BMW Motorsport stripes of the BMW R80 G/S Paris-Dakar in this brand new Nexx X.G100 helmet. Since this helmet comes only in four sizes, with a single shell/EPS layup and interchangable pads, we've listed it for sale in every size, but there is only one special-editon helmet here. Once it's gone, it's gone, and Frank's true cost of painting this out of his famly autobody shop, between the masking, polishing, and multiple layers of clearcoat, would far exceed the surcharge we've put on this one-of-a-kind helmet.