Scuba diver here: this is exactly what we do for our masks. Or we churn up some spit, rub that around in the mask, then gently rinse it out. It looks gross, but it works. I don't think it would work quite as well for a motorcycle helmet hahaha
FYI The pinlock only works effectively down to certain temperatures, when it gets too cold it will fog regardless even with a pinlock, it's just something that happens because the temperature difference between the inside and the outside becomes too great, I ride all year long in Swedish winter and fogging is a hazzle, the only thing that really helps in that case is leaving a small gap open to normalize the inside temperature and covering your mouth/nose with something like a necktube, balaclava or breathbox to limit condensation from your breath (which can even form patches of ice on the surface of the PinLock). One trick when it's very cold is to open it for just a while and then close it and keep repeating that as necessary, for instance if you are stopped at a red light it's a good idea to open up.
Thanks for taking the time to share this information. I was not aware there was a temperature threshold, but that makes sense. Pinlock should really specify in what temperature range the product will function appropriately. There was no mention of it in the product information guide. My first thought when reading your comment was, there should be a heated visor strip for helmets. Low and behold I found a company called VISIN that produces a heated visor insert for motorcycle helmets. Sounds like something you may be interested in. I will reach out to Pinlock for further information and update this post later. Take care Ronnie.
@@Corn8Bit ice on the road is not that common in Stockholm as they use salt here, you can use studs if you want but studs doesn't do anything for snow, I have a studded tire myself but many riders ride without studs
@@RonnieRidesI’m moving from Barcelona to Stockholm with my triumph bonneville 🫢 planning to buy a Honda crf300l for gravel roads. can you give some tips of where to go from Stockholm for nice rides? Cheers!
Many full face helmets do not have a pinlock option (my current one does not). Where I am, the damn thing doesn't always work (it is too humid), and when it doesn't work, it really doesn't work and you end up removing the visor and replacing it with a non pinlock version. How can you guess this is an issue? When the helmet comes with pinlock in the box, but the pinlock is not installed and you have to DIY. I bought such a helmet (my previous helmet, that I no longer wear) from a local store, and asked the store to fit the pinlock. They complied but told me I would be back to buy another visor. They were right. It is not the Holy Grail. Second, where I live it can get really cold, and the damn thing freezes up. My new helmet is not fitted with a chin cover (to keep noise down), but if you have one that is (like my old helmet), you will find it can be removed. I had to remove this on my old helmet and find one that was more a mesh with holes (a chin net). Not as effective at noise reduction, but does not cause such a misting problem (so my new non-Shoei helmet has a Shoei chin net fitted). My helmet does not have a breath deflector (nor does it have the option of one), but it now has one from an Icon Airmada. It is the advantage of having a big helmet store nearby, on a quiet mid week day, you can go in and experiment with what they have in stock to see what fits. And, because I hate double d-ring straps, it now also has a quick release strap conversion (no sewing or cutting needed). I really do hate double d straps. Great if you live somewhere warm where your gloves are not massively thick, rendering your fingers no better than thick, senseless sausages, but quick release straps are the only way to fasten and release a helmet when you have super insulated winter gloves on and not wearing your gloves for a few minutes while you fiddle with the strap risks frostbite. Ah, I hear you say, put the helmet on before you step outside. And watch it instantly mist and freeze up as you do. I have to go outside, leaving my helmet off and sitting in the cold. Open the garage door, get my bike out and start that, hang the helmet on the end of the handle bar, close the garage door and get on the bike and get ready to go, put the helmet on (with vizor up), and off we go. Let my face cool down for maybe half a mile, then vizor down. Ah, what we do for the love of riding.
I’ve always used pinlock, and just discovered they have three different grades , just installed a 120 grade on my helmet , no problems now expensive but it works a lot better than the other 2 lower grades , that’s why gp riders use them 😊👍👍
I have a pin lock in mine and it still fogs. It doesn’t fog as bad as before. I just hate how easily they scratch. Mine came with fingerprints on it, I wiped them off and it scratched in the upper left hand corner. Thankfully it is out of my direct vision but still annoying.
Optical clarity at night sucks, esp, once these things have been cleaned a few times, no matter how careful you are not to scratch them. Throw on RX glasses under any helmet, and all bets are off. IMHO, what would work better, would be a strong fan that draws your breath out of the helmet.
Thanks Sherlock. Hard to find anyone these days who hasn't heard of pinlock. This solution isn't the best, far from it. The design is aimed at making either the visor or the pins to break over time. I have two different helmets: on one of them pinlock was so tight that it literally cracked the visor, there are cracks going from each of those pins; on another one the pins kept breaking, they couldn't hold the tension, I went through two sets of pins until I ultimately decided to tape it.
While the channel host is trying to help the community, I do wish the negative commenters would offer some real value of working solutions they found. Name calling and defamation isn't really needed.
Help the community... Most of the helmets that allow for pinlock installation simply come with it. It's not some secret solution, but the most obvious one that only those who don't own a motorcycle maybe surprised to stuble upon. Not to mention that pinlock doesn't eliminate fogging completely. If you owned one, you'd know. Simply a bait video that wastes time of anyone who views it @@VllKlNG
What worked for me is removing the cover under the chin. Yes it lets in more sound but all the hot air goes straight outside + less carbon dioxide inside which can definitely lower your attentiveness. It's free, quick, and reversible.
Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo. Rub in a few drops, rinse it off, no fog. I learned this trick diving in ice-cold creeks for gold.
I’ll try it when i get my helmet and reply in a few weeks
Scuba diver here: this is exactly what we do for our masks. Or we churn up some spit, rub that around in the mask, then gently rinse it out. It looks gross, but it works. I don't think it would work quite as well for a motorcycle helmet hahaha
FYI The pinlock only works effectively down to certain temperatures, when it gets too cold it will fog regardless even with a pinlock, it's just something that happens because the temperature difference between the inside and the outside becomes too great, I ride all year long in Swedish winter and fogging is a hazzle, the only thing that really helps in that case is leaving a small gap open to normalize the inside temperature and covering your mouth/nose with something like a necktube, balaclava or breathbox to limit condensation from your breath (which can even form patches of ice on the surface of the PinLock). One trick when it's very cold is to open it for just a while and then close it and keep repeating that as necessary, for instance if you are stopped at a red light it's a good idea to open up.
Thanks for taking the time to share this information. I was not aware there was a temperature threshold, but that makes sense. Pinlock should really specify in what temperature range the product will function appropriately. There was no mention of it in the product information guide. My first thought when reading your comment was, there should be a heated visor strip for helmets. Low and behold I found a company called VISIN that produces a heated visor insert for motorcycle helmets. Sounds like something you may be interested in. I will reach out to Pinlock for further information and update this post later. Take care Ronnie.
@@Corn8Bit ice on the road is not that common in Stockholm as they use salt here, you can use studs if you want but studs doesn't do anything for snow, I have a studded tire myself but many riders ride without studs
@@RonnieRidesI’m moving from Barcelona to Stockholm with my triumph bonneville 🫢 planning to buy a Honda crf300l for gravel roads. can you give some tips of where to go from Stockholm for nice rides? Cheers!
That's a beautiful helmet
Barbasol shaving cream (plain, no aloe or other variants). Rub it on, leave for a few minutes and wipe away.
Many full face helmets do not have a pinlock option (my current one does not). Where I am, the damn thing doesn't always work (it is too humid), and when it doesn't work, it really doesn't work and you end up removing the visor and replacing it with a non pinlock version. How can you guess this is an issue? When the helmet comes with pinlock in the box, but the pinlock is not installed and you have to DIY. I bought such a helmet (my previous helmet, that I no longer wear) from a local store, and asked the store to fit the pinlock. They complied but told me I would be back to buy another visor. They were right. It is not the Holy Grail.
Second, where I live it can get really cold, and the damn thing freezes up. My new helmet is not fitted with a chin cover (to keep noise down), but if you have one that is (like my old helmet), you will find it can be removed. I had to remove this on my old helmet and find one that was more a mesh with holes (a chin net). Not as effective at noise reduction, but does not cause such a misting problem (so my new non-Shoei helmet has a Shoei chin net fitted). My helmet does not have a breath deflector (nor does it have the option of one), but it now has one from an Icon Airmada. It is the advantage of having a big helmet store nearby, on a quiet mid week day, you can go in and experiment with what they have in stock to see what fits.
And, because I hate double d-ring straps, it now also has a quick release strap conversion (no sewing or cutting needed). I really do hate double d straps. Great if you live somewhere warm where your gloves are not massively thick, rendering your fingers no better than thick, senseless sausages, but quick release straps are the only way to fasten and release a helmet when you have super insulated winter gloves on and not wearing your gloves for a few minutes while you fiddle with the strap risks frostbite. Ah, I hear you say, put the helmet on before you step outside. And watch it instantly mist and freeze up as you do. I have to go outside, leaving my helmet off and sitting in the cold. Open the garage door, get my bike out and start that, hang the helmet on the end of the handle bar, close the garage door and get on the bike and get ready to go, put the helmet on (with vizor up), and off we go. Let my face cool down for maybe half a mile, then vizor down.
Ah, what we do for the love of riding.
I’ve always used pinlock, and just discovered they have three different grades , just installed a 120 grade on my helmet , no problems now expensive but it works a lot better than the other 2 lower grades , that’s why gp riders use them 😊👍👍
I have a pin lock in mine and it still fogs. It doesn’t fog as bad as before. I just hate how easily they scratch. Mine came with fingerprints on it, I wiped them off and it scratched in the upper left hand corner. Thankfully it is out of my direct vision but still annoying.
I’ve been using Kirkland baby wipes
Awesome ❤
Thank you! Cheers!
I really need one of those
It will work great for your situation. Cheers!
i just bought a helmet and had fog on the helmet , first time i see this fog lol , so annoying
Well, thats pinlock primary purpose...
Optical clarity at night sucks, esp, once these things have been cleaned a few times, no matter how careful you are not to scratch them.
Throw on RX glasses under any helmet, and all bets are off.
IMHO, what would work better, would be a strong fan that draws your breath out of the helmet.
Thanks Sherlock. Hard to find anyone these days who hasn't heard of pinlock. This solution isn't the best, far from it. The design is aimed at making either the visor or the pins to break over time. I have two different helmets: on one of them pinlock was so tight that it literally cracked the visor, there are cracks going from each of those pins; on another one the pins kept breaking, they couldn't hold the tension, I went through two sets of pins until I ultimately decided to tape it.
While the channel host is trying to help the community, I do wish the negative commenters would offer some real value of working solutions they found. Name calling and defamation isn't really needed.
@@VllKlNG the community isnt braindead except you i guess. hey guys let me show you this awesome thing called the wheel.
Help the community... Most of the helmets that allow for pinlock installation simply come with it. It's not some secret solution, but the most obvious one that only those who don't own a motorcycle maybe surprised to stuble upon. Not to mention that pinlock doesn't eliminate fogging completely. If you owned one, you'd know. Simply a bait video that wastes time of anyone who views it @@VllKlNG
@@brocksamson2704help! They are multiplying...
What worked for me is removing the cover under the chin. Yes it lets in more sound but all the hot air goes straight outside + less carbon dioxide inside which can definitely lower your attentiveness. It's free, quick, and reversible.