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A little story which maybe you'll recognise. It's about a rider, a nice day out and several hundred insects. It's a late summers evening and you've covered miles and miles of great roads on your motorcycle during the day. The last part of the ride home as dusk falls takes you through darkening lanes, shrouded in the radiating warmth of hedgerows and trees. Picking your way around the bends isn't getting any easier as your visor is getting plastered with the onslaught of dusk awakened insects. The view out gets so bad that you have to lift your visor to see where you are going. That's when the hard bodies of flies, gnats and moths sting into your eyes like little projectiles of glass - up and down the visor goes, either ruining your vision when down or doing nothing to save your eyes when it's up. A desperate glove attempting to wipe the slimy remains of insects away just smears them and makes it even worse. No petrol station for miles (and nothing there but green scratchy tissue anyway), no way of seeing out and nothing to do but slow down to a crawl and ride with your visor raised away from your eyes. It was a ride like this a few years back that set us on the trail and got us thinking about visors and how best to clean them. Needless to say, the story above is just one of a hundred situations we all face when we ride, when it would have been great to have a way of making a perfect job of cleaning our visor in our pocket. After 2 years of hard work, we've hit our 6 key objectives and we've developed the product we needed in our pocket that warm dark evening described above. Because insects have guts... |
