What is the deal? You use one per day? What is the purpose? To avoid scratching the lense?
Goggle tear offs
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when your goggles get muddy, you can yank off the top layer and have a clear field of view again. Then you throw the old one on the ground so environmentalists can pitch a fit and get that trail closed to bikers. At least, that's how they seem to work around here
Really for racing only IMHO, otherwise you have time to stop and wipe your goggs manually.
Really for racing only IMHO, otherwise you have time to stop and wipe your goggs manually.
I put one on at the begining of the day, continue wiping the tearoff off, and then take it off at the end of the day and voila!, a clean, unscratched lense
from what little moto experiance i have its for mud, so you dont have to wipe em down. i suppose it would make sence for dh as well.
it looks really cool when you come out of a muddy woods section and rip one off throw it to the ground and keep halling!
theyll be only really useful in full on mud conditions
ive had 2 races where i wished i had some since after riding about 100m
i couldnt see sh!t, so i see them pretty much as race only things
ive had 2 races where i wished i had some since after riding about 100m
i couldnt see sh!t, so i see them pretty much as race only things
I used them in Big Bear, where the dust was really bad. Other than that, I mainly used them to keep my goggles from getting scratched up...
They suck for dust though...at Big Bear the dust gets everywhere and will get on your lenses even though you have a tear off.
Even though I rarely ride in mud, I am going to give these a shot primarily to protect my lenses. I always scratch my lenses within 5 seconds of putting on a new pair of goggles.
For Dust a stripe of Vaseline across the bottom inside of my Lens has always helped. The dust sticks to it instead of the rest of the lens...
speaking of tear offs... anyone know where ya can buy tear offs online for spy alloy mx goggs ??
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partsbara
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That's gross...... but effective. I would think that dampening the foam vents (with water) would help as well.SuspectDevice said:
yeah, it gets a little nasty....but you've just gotta make sure not to use globs. Just another great trick thanks to motocross. You "seldom" need to take this drastic measure w/ MTB. (now don't bark at me.... yes there have been certain cases where it gets truly dusty...but that's not the norm)dromond said:
However you've also gotta look at MX vs DH. Outdoor MX typically goes for what....30 min plus 2 laps? that's a hell of a lot longer than a long 5min dh run. A lot of these tricks (vasaline, etc) are done because the rider is out there for long periods of time.
As for soaking the foam in water.....i wouldn't really reccomend it. simply because you don't want it dripping in your eye. Just like sweat, saturated water becomes a pain dripping in your eyes & down your face.....gets on your lenses & screws your vision. that's why they use vasaline...it doesn't "splash" around
Anyway, back to tear offs. for the most part, most goggles hold up to 5 tear offs....you can sometimes squeeze in a few more...but it's not really suggested. your typical tear off is pretty thick & each layer added does distort your vision...so be careful.
Each person is different, but for my riders, i'll usually have an extra set of goggles w/ no more than 2-3 tear offs for the race run. Realistically, you wont have a chance to pull a tear off more than 2-3 times on a 3 min dh run. So its better to have clearer vision, than more tear offs. When, in practice, youre doing lap after lap, its not a bad idea to run 5 tear offs. However this is only when conditions are severe.
just remember to take it easy when you first use tear offs. Slightly distorted vision & not being used to pulling the tear-off off while riding can be tricky at times!