I own an Aero helmet (Rudy Project Syton Open) that actually has a visor attachment, but the visor 1. is sold separately, 2. is $70, 3. is out of stock anyway, and 4. according to John Cobb, slows you down!
I would be interested to hear if any Weekend Engineers / Fellow Cheapskates have ever designed/built/rigged their own visor for their bike helmet? I’d be interested in where you got the materials and how you did it…
Not sure if this is your helmet or not, but that’s Matt Russell’s way. Looks like the LG visor.
I own an Aero helmet (Rudy Project Syton Open) that actually has a visor attachment, but the visor 1. is sold separately, 2. is $70, 3. is out of stock anyway, and 4. according to John Cobb, slows you down!
I would be interested to hear if any Weekend Engineers / Fellow Cheapskates have ever designed/built/rigged their own visor for their bike helmet? I’d be interested in where you got the materials and how you did it…
Immediately take #4 off the list. Unless you have the money (also see #2) to head into a wind tunnel and test any “new” version of a visor, that is a moot point.
Also watch it as altering a helmet is often considered illegal.
Not sure if this is your helmet or not, but that’s Matt Russell’s way. Looks like the LG visor.
That is actually the visor for MY Syton Open helmet on another helmet!! Pretty funny…but not from Home Depot 
I own an Aero helmet (Rudy Project Syton Open) that actually has a visor attachment, but the visor 1. is sold separately, 2. is $70, 3. is out of stock anyway, and 4. according to John Cobb, slows you down!
I would be interested to hear if any Weekend Engineers / Fellow Cheapskates have ever designed/built/rigged their own visor for their bike helmet? I’d be interested in where you got the materials and how you did it…
Immediately take #4 off the list. Unless you have the money (also see #2) to head into a wind tunnel and test any “new” version of a visor, that is a moot point.
Also watch it as altering a helmet is often considered illegal.
Noted and noted. Thanks!
I own a Louis Garneau Rocket (original version). It came with a visor that mounted to the outside with a couple of screws, but I thought that was a screwy arrangement. I took a utility knife and carefully separated about an inch of the plastic shell from the foam around the face opening. Then I trimmed the the visor so that it was about an inch larger than the face opening and I carefully forced it into that space between the plastic shell and the foam. (Note that, for the most part, the utility knife wasn’t really cutting anything. The space was mostly already there except in a few spots.)
This has worked like a charm and I’ve raced the helmet like that for a few years now. You can check my profile photos and you’ll see me in action wearing it.
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Very cool!
OK, your helmet won’t fit my giant head, BUT, would you mind sharing how/where you got the piece of plastic(?) for the visor itself?
Good luck, and to everyone else, see Jamaican’s sig!
I used 3-mil laminate for the visor. I got it from a printing company. They use it to laminate door hangers, and sometimes ID Cards, among other things. We let the machine warm up then ran it without anything in between the top/bottom film so I could get a long enough sheet to work with. It took a few tries to get the shape I wanted, but it works so great that I don’t even care if it sells (I now have a Selector as well). I’ve never had fogging issues with it. I also intentionally made the shape identical to the helmet interface so that all I needed to do was tape it down without permanently modifying the helmet.
I made one out of a 2-liter soda bottle. Attached it with velcro and electrical tape. Optical quality is not too bad but decided to ditch it for my first race.