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[sg5y]

Looking for a good helmet around 100$ with a visor option...I found this one so far...any other ideas??

L23 - E-Bike HELMET

LIVALL L23 with a visor protects riders from harsh sunlight and flying dust while on the move. Built to IPX5 standards, it can withstand all kinds of harsh weather, ensuring you stay protected rain or shine. Bag it fast!

livall.com

 

[PedalUma]

Start with the Virginia Tech bike helmet test rating guide. Out of 120 rated helmets, look for one it the top 10 to 15.

Bike Helmet Ratings

Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings - Bike helmets have been tested to evaluate their ability to reduce brain injury risk.

www.helmet.beam.vt.edu

You can read about the testing process and equipment. One of mine has a removable visor that I attached a bright USB rechargeable light to with epoxy. With a wave of a hand I can change modes and power levels, say from strobe to bright. A light on the visor turns to where you are looking, like when you need to track the driver's side windshield to get their attention. I kinda like my brain.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Looking for a good helmet around 100$ with a visor option...I found this one so far...any other ideas??

L23 - E-Bike HELMET

LIVALL L23 with a visor protects riders from harsh sunlight and flying dust while on the move. Built to IPX5 standards, it can withstand all kinds of harsh weather, ensuring you stay protected rain or shine. Bag it fast!

livall.com

I got annoyed pretty fast with visors. mine was higher end and you had to store the visor. but still they scratch easily and the optics are not that great. if it does not have anti glare that can be a issue too. but thats just me. its easier wearing wrap around glasses.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I'm wearing MTB "over-the-glasses" goggles in the winter.

 

[stompandgo]

I'm wearing MTB "over-the-glasses" goggles in the winter.

Oh. I thought you were going diving for lobsters after the ride.

 

[spokewrench]

I got annoyed pretty fast with visors. mine was higher end and you had to store the visor. but still they scratch easily and the optics are not that great. if it does not have anti glare that can be a issue too. but thats just me. its easier wearing wrap around glasses.

Confusing nomenclature. When a bike helmet is described as having a visor, I assume they mean a bill.

The root word of "visor" means "look." The face shields on knights' helmets weren't called visors until the 14th Century, when they could be flipped for the knight to look around. Probably, a visor also shaded his eyes.

Late in the 18th Century, working-class Europeans began wearing billed caps. To this day, they're called peaked caps in the military. In 1860, William Bower invented an eyeshade on a strap for horseback riding. He called it a visor. Bills on American baseball caps came to be called visors.

Around 1955, military pilots began wearing helmets with visors. In case of ejection, a visor was armor against a potentially lethal blast of air. The flip-up face protector on my logging helmet isn't armor any more than the flip-up face protectors worn by medical personnel. They're called shields or screens. Those seem like good terms for eye protectors on bike helmets.