Visor Icing??

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whitedust

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What is the solution????????? We had severe visor icing on the trail in the UP Friday 10 AM - about 1PM gave up & had lunch & after lunch the condition had cleared the area & all was well. At times we were following the tail lights of the mothership in this case a Venture GT with a huge windshield so venturenorth could duck behind that & avoid hat icing. dfattak & I have indentical Apex XTXs & I had brp mod & he has bvs hat. dfattak has a scraper built into his gloves & plugged in his heated shield neither helped. We thawed hats out on rear exhausts but soon had icing again. Finally we both resorted to just scraping visors with our fingernails nothing else worked & the tail lights of the mothership were long gone. I was thinking of stopping & peeing on the visor to clear it but didn't need the amber lens. So what is the solution when icing happens & we will buy it?? Otherwise than the 3 hours of icing it was a stellar day on the trails.:)
 
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whitedust

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POLARISDAN said:
Just have to wait it out..we sat at the pit stop and waited till it turned back to snow
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We had it mostly from Amasa to LAnse but the worst was on the pipeline Sidnaw to LAnse pretty much was blind 1/2 way to LAnse after we lost the mothership. Between Amasa & Sidnaw on 15 there is no place to hole up but twisty stuff so somewhat protected mostly snow for us but had to be some frain in there too to cause the condition. No products available??
 
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ridindirty800

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whitedust said:
What is the solution????????? We had severe visor icing on the trail in the UP Friday 10 AM - about 1PM gave up & had lunch & after lunch the condition had cleared the area & all was well. At times we were following the tail lights of the mothership in this case a Venture GT with a huge windshield so venturenorth could duck behind that & avoid hat icing. dfattak & I have indentical Apex XTXs & I had brp mod & he has bvs hat. dfattak has a scraper built into his gloves & plugged in his heated shield neither helped. We thawed hats out on rear exhausts but soon had icing again. Finally we both resorted to just scraping visors with our fingernails nothing else worked & the tail lights of the mothership were long gone. I was thinking of stopping & peeing on the visor to clear it but didn't need the amber lens. So what is the solution when icing happens & we will buy it?? Otherwise than the 3 hours of icing it was a stellar day on the trails.:)
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I have a BV2 with a heated shield. After going through freezing rain and not being able to see, I spent the money for a heated shield! I have been in freezing rain 2 times since and both times had zero problems as the freezing rain melted off the shield. All the guys in our group who had a heated shield had no problems. I am surprised the guy in your group who had one that it did not work!
 
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whitedust

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ridindirty800 said:
I have a BV2 with a heated shield. After going through freezing rain and not being able to see, I spent the money for a heated shield! I have been in freezing rain 2 times since and both times had zero problems as the freezing rain melted off the shield. All the guys in our group who had a heated shield had no problems. I am surprised the guy in your group who had one that it did not work!
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dfattack thought the BV2 heated shield warmed inside of visor so had no affect on outside visor icing & it was very cold 12F maybe. He faired no better than unheated brp mod that I had. Darren would pull up next to me & we both would take glove off left hand & scrape with finger nails give thumbs up & ride for another 5 minutes or so. It was a very tuff condition.

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POLARISDAN said:
Too bad we didn't know u were up here...we would have tracked u down
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Yes we had a fun day ripped the pipeline & 107 back so that was a blast! Had Sue at Sidnaw min mart take pictures for us a very nice lady + Tom the previous owner was there too.:)
 
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upbarleyboy

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We hit the same thing up there Friday morning. Had to stop and clean the shield every couple miles. When you get that heavy moisture in the air, not much you can do. Even my buddies electric shield wasn't getting the job done. Took the glove off, used the heat from my hand to get it to liquid form as best I could and continued on until I had to do it again. PITA for sure, but it cleared up in the afternoon and turned out to be a great day.
 
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I've never tried one, but isn't that what heated shields are for?
 
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dfattack

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mspease said:
I've never tried one, but isn't that what heated shields are for?
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Until Friday I thought so too. But after looking more closely at my shield it looks like there is a double lens. The electric part is for the inner lens. the outer lens was accumulating the ice. It would be nice if the electric elements worked for both lenses. That's all I could figure out since nothing was working except having a huge windshield. I used the exhaust in the rear of my XTX to melt the shield but was ice 5 minutes later as Whitedust stated. Anyways it was an awesome ride home and that's what matters most.

If anyone has more info about this I'd be interested to learn so I can avoid this condition in the future.
 
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polarisman_98

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I've used heated shields for years and they don't do anything for icing on the outside from freezing rain or whatever. Have never fogged inside while using one however...
 
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bonnevier

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I keep one of those hand warmers opened and inside my coat along with some good napkins. If it gets too bad...stop, rub the hand warmer on the outside (or inside) and wipe dry with the napkins.

Not sure there is a cure but atleast this stops the bleeding for me!
 
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whitedust

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bonnevier said:
I keep one of those hand warmers opened and inside my coat along with some good napkins. If it gets too bad...stop, rub the hand warmer on the outside (or inside) and wipe dry with the napkins.

Not sure there is a cure but atleast this stops the bleeding for me!
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I had hot paks in my gloves & I was thinking about that but didn't know what might happen getting hot paks wet & paks were doing the job to keep hands warm as fingernail scrapers.lol
 
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POLARISDAN

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The shield is double paned..only inside heated..so I'm surprised that no body has both panes heated..if they did haven't heard of it
 
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Team Elkhorn

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All the electric shields we've owned, (HJC & G-Max,) the heating element has been between the double shield and heated both. Even in the worst cold or freezing rain they worked flawlessly. :confused:
 
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