Seemed like a good idea at the time...

[SteveC#222]

Flicking through the bike mags in W H Smiths today they had an article about this :-

The Turbo Visor!



You fit it to your lid and as  you ride along it spins and flicks the rain off!...didn't seem to catch on ( but you can still buy them!).

I can just about remember seeing the advert as a nipper in my brothers bike mags in the late sixties.

Anyone remember any other bike related ideas that never caught on?

[manxie]

Marvelous!!! I remember going to Murry`s Motorcycle Museum at the Bungalow and seeing one of these Turbo Visor`s on display......excellent!! 

[Moto63]

Hee hee.....turbo visor!!...I like it, I remember something coming out in the early 80's which was like a finger that'd been cut off a glove, it was made from rubber I think and it had a little "wiper blade" running down the length of it. The idea was to slip it over your gloved up hand then you could wipe your visor as you rode along in the rain. Bit like a car windscreen wiper, don't think they ever really took off, I certainly haven't seen one since they were brought out. Can't for the life in me remember what they were called...cheers, Michael

[themoudie]

OH DEAR!

Torque reaction on your neck muscles, bearings seizing, bearing disintergrating when reaching warp factor ~50mph, BLAH, BLAH........ZZzzzzzzz

Never bought one, saw one 'fly off' in use at ~50mph and the kaleidoscope of colours once scratched, under night conditions, made riding with 6v 35W 'glow worm' headlight bulbs interesting to say the least. Now I think about it, night riding was 'interesting'!  Maybe for another thread? 

My regards, Bill

[SteveC#222]

Tired of not being able to ride in the winter?  How about these!

[booxbr]

The local go cart track near were i live [WOMBWELL] when its raining some racer still use the turbo visor .......

[Richard]

Moto63 - they were called V Wipe and I still have one somewhere.

At a time when waxed cotton overgloves left a lovely film of wax on your visor and gloves they were fairly handy as a cleanish wiping surface.

[guest564]

I remember something coming out in the early 80's which was like a finger that'd been cut off a glove, it was made from rubber I think and it had a little "wiper blade" running down the length of it.

I used to have one, it was very effective but the 'finger hole' was too small to fit over a large sized winter glove.

[timbo]

I saw a bike fitted with skis, very similar to the pic above. It was a 1920s Harley used by the Norwegian post office, and was in a bike show a couple of years ago in Dublin   
I remember seeing ads for the finger visor wiper too.

[tj63]

I remember something coming out in the early 80's which was like a finger that'd been cut off a glove, it was made from rubber I think and it had a little "wiper blade" running down the length of it.

I used to have one, it was very effective but the 'finger hole' was too small to fit over a large sized winter glove.

I've still got a vee-wipe. I think you can still get them new. They also did them in different sizes, all the way up to "banana fingers".

[SteveC#222]

I bought some Lindstrand summer gloves last year and they have a nylon visor blade on the left hand index finger. ( great gloves by the way).

[Moto63]

I don't want to alarm you Steve but you appear to av lost your arms

[Propellor]

I don't want to alarm you Steve but you appear to av lost your arms

It's an optical illusion. If you look carefully his arms are brilliant white against a brilliant white background.

You need more sun Steve. 

(Don't we all  )

[tj63]

Vee-wipe is still available:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bob-Heath-Wipe-Medium-Black/dp/B006VC9DRM

[Moto63]

Well blow me over, (oo er matron) who'd have thought it??  Must be 30plus years since I've seen one of them things. Clearly they took off more than I realised. Oh and that Bob Heath logo with the fully faired racer giving it some....eee takes me back, I have a sticker of that logo which is still stuck to the underside of my fiberflex skateboard (yes which I still have) must have been approx 1977 when I stuck that on there.....thanks for the memories ..cheers, Michael