Is it just me?
As one who remembers when helmets didn't have visors, (not to mention when most riders didn't have helmets) it always irritated me that you needed a degree in advanced origami to get the bloody visor off.
Then it all changed and it was easy-peasy to get 'em off and sometimes even get 'em on again.
But, how stupid are some of these mechanisms? Talk about
designed dreamt up by 7 year olds?
The visor attachments on my BMW System Dark Ages visor are so weird and fragile that the slightest mishandling causes them to snap off.
The mechanism on my Schuberth C3 is fine, works a treat and the attachments are robust too....but, the bloody sun visor, one of the most useful things if you have sensitive eyes/stare at the sun a lot, is another matter all together.
It is like some kids comic book gift; insert tab A under flab B and ensure that spigot C engages in hole D and repeat for other side.
Of course putting the thing in when you can see tab A, flap B and hole D and even spigot C if you squint, is Simples!
Getting the bloody thing off to clean the dead flies from the outside and the various forms of moss, algae, sneeze droplets and other general forms of low-life from the inside, is another matter altogether
Especially when it is 4 months since you last fitted it!!!
Do I bend the visor in or out to disengage spigot C from hole D, or do I lift flap B to allow tab A to come off the spigot C?
Well, whatever you do, don't! Of course, as is always the way with the buggeration factor, the first side comes off easily, what with it being held in place on both sides.
It is trying to get the second side off while supporting the plastic that is the hard bit and I'm not even a cack-handed, ham-fisted sort.
That'll be £40 to you sir and do enjoy the Wrinklies run in the rain without the sun visor?
Brian (who should be grateful that it was tab A on the visor that snapped off, taking hole D with it and not flap B or spigot C on the captive mechanism that went boing
)