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If you are friends with a member or a legacy I'm sure they would appreciate the discretion.
I’m finding that I need to keep the visor slightly more open that normal even at reasonable speeds to keep my glasses from fogging.
Thanks in advance
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
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I rode 30 miles today ( Brrr....) and have to lift the visor at lights etc to clear the fogging.
I think there's sprays you can get etc
Can't offer much help with the spectacles fogging other than suggesting that conversely it might be better to leave the visor closed tp reduce the ventilation and adopt the 'biker's underbite / mouth exhale' to direct your breath downwards until the heat of your head/breath warms the glasses to the point where your breath doesn't condense on them. Either that or try to prewarm them a little in the house / office before you pull on the helmet.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
Also, maybe get a drying machine - I've got one which blows warm air through a nozzle so you can limit how long the water sits on metal parts. Once dry you can also use something like ACF-50 sprayed or painted onto metalwork which is supposed to give good protection from the elements.
You shouldn't have any issues rinsing the bike down after use. As @roundthebend stated above, I wouldn't use a pressure washer on any of the oily bits too much, you don't want to be blasting the grease out of wheel bearings and what-not.
As for chains, mine doesn't have one but, from when I was last bike shopping I seem to recall that the maintenance routine is recommended to be a clean and lube every 300 - 500 miles.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
Rinsing off the road muck & salt that's around at this time of year is far better than leaving an aggressive corrosion causing agent on your bike. Get a couple of old towels & wipe off the water afterward & give an occasional chain lube.
Wonder why there's such an insurance issue there & not elsewhere, or is it an outlier?
They don't really do closed public-roads racing exactly like that anywhere else really. The IOM TT is a time-trial with riders setting out in ones or twos against the clock, whereas Irish road racing is full grids of maybe 20 or more riders. That might contribute.
The other thing that could be a factor (which I remember from being charged extortionate fees for both car and bike insurance when I lived there) was that the payments for contested injury claims in Norn Iron were determined without reference to a standard / recommended scale of payments for such things - and as a result were often very much higher than you would typically see in the rest of the UK.
They don't sell tickets to 99% of these things, which is just nuts. Risk of damage to public property must be big. They must be making lots of claims, this can't be a shock to anyone involved to be honest.