Clear Advantage Visor Review

The Clear Advantage Visor (CAV) is brought to you by Frank Industries.  The price is $20 and it is available at www.frankind.com.

The idea of the CAV is that you can extend the protection offered by your helmet visor, by having this clear plastic shield extension sticking out from your visor.  It’s obviously based on some riders duct taping goggle lenses on their visors in preparation for muddy races.  The CAV comes with plastic bolts and wing nuts to attach it to the visor, which does look more professional than duct tape.

By looking more professional, you also have to drill holes through your helmet visor and the CAV too.  This can be done fairly easily but it is not as easy as the duct tape.  If you drill holes and do not have the length perfect, then you have to re-drill and slide the CAV further forward or back.  If you do decide to purchase this product, I would recommend taping, then riding to test it, then drilling your holes when you find out where you need them.

Pros:
It does provide a small amount of extra protection from tree limbs and flying roost.

Cons:
It was difficult to look through.  The sunlight would reflect weird.  It was also very distracting, especially if you were going down into a valley, and trying to look up to select a good line for your climb back up.

The more basic goggle lens taping may look ghetto, but if you were to catch it on a tree branch or something similar, then it would fall off without much of a fight.  The CAV is more sturdy which would result in a broken helmet visor or it would snap the plastic bolts.  Or neither and you would be have a sore neck.

Also, for whatever reason, there are 2 holes on the end of the CAV that you are to look through.  These may be for tear off posts, but I think that would be kind of unnecessary to have tear-offs on an auxiliary helmet visor.  Whatever they are for, they were distracting.

The product itself is a thick piece of lexan or some other sort of clear plastic.  I searched briefly but could not find what the material was.  The surface shows small scratches pretty easily and would probably be very difficult to see through after a 3 hour harescramble.

Although the CAV is simple in concept, when applied to actual riding situation I feel it becomes more of a hinderence than an aide.  I would rate this product 1 out of 5.

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