In line with Evertlamb's post "Making my own bike parts - Quarantine edition" I decided to buy a new helmet that is more aero than my current one, as well as try to use the shield from my old Giro Air Attack.
In a nearby shop I found a Limar 007 in my size on sale for about $80.00. There are two more in black/green, and white/purple/teal in that shop but I went with just white/black/grey.
The Giro Air Attack shield has 3 magnets in the lense along the top, and there are 3 magnets in the Giro Helmet. The Limar 007 helmet has 2 holes that are just slightly closer together than the magnet locations on the Giro, by about 1/8" and the holes are quite a bit smaller than the magnet size. So, I bought some magnets for about $7.00 each, then drilled out the existing holes on the Limar helmet not only the same size as the new magnets, but about 1/8" wider to match the distance between them on the Giro.
After that, I had to drill the center hold so that the lense would be able to be flipped over and out of the way, as well as letting a small amount of airflow through the lense slits just below the edge of the helmet. After carefully measuring and flipping the lense over numerous times, I found the perfect place and drilled the hole for the final magnet.
The magnets in the helmet are so strong that they pulled the magnets out of the lense when I pulled the lense off, so I first had to glue the 3 strong magnets into the Limar helmet, then use a metal epoxy to reglue the magnets back into the lense. Now, if I get the lense anywhere near the front of the helmet it connects in place like the Ironman suit does to Tony Stark.
I can wear my usual sunglasses underneath the lense without problem, but the lense needs to be flipped up when putting on the helmet first because it is a tight fit. After wearing the helmet and sunglasses, then the lense can be flipped over.
Sorry for the small pics. I still have not been able to upload the original size pics no matter what I've tried.
The more people I encounter the more I love my cats.
In a nearby shop I found a Limar 007 in my size on sale for about $80.00. There are two more in black/green, and white/purple/teal in that shop but I went with just white/black/grey.
The Giro Air Attack shield has 3 magnets in the lense along the top, and there are 3 magnets in the Giro Helmet. The Limar 007 helmet has 2 holes that are just slightly closer together than the magnet locations on the Giro, by about 1/8" and the holes are quite a bit smaller than the magnet size. So, I bought some magnets for about $7.00 each, then drilled out the existing holes on the Limar helmet not only the same size as the new magnets, but about 1/8" wider to match the distance between them on the Giro.
After that, I had to drill the center hold so that the lense would be able to be flipped over and out of the way, as well as letting a small amount of airflow through the lense slits just below the edge of the helmet. After carefully measuring and flipping the lense over numerous times, I found the perfect place and drilled the hole for the final magnet.
The magnets in the helmet are so strong that they pulled the magnets out of the lense when I pulled the lense off, so I first had to glue the 3 strong magnets into the Limar helmet, then use a metal epoxy to reglue the magnets back into the lense. Now, if I get the lense anywhere near the front of the helmet it connects in place like the Ironman suit does to Tony Stark.
I can wear my usual sunglasses underneath the lense without problem, but the lense needs to be flipped up when putting on the helmet first because it is a tight fit. After wearing the helmet and sunglasses, then the lense can be flipped over.
Sorry for the small pics. I still have not been able to upload the original size pics no matter what I've tried.
The more people I encounter the more I love my cats.