How motorcycle helmet visors are made

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There is a very informative and detailed post by Rick K. over at webBikeWorld entitled, ‘How to Make a Motorcycle Helmet Visor’. You can find the post here.

In case you want to build one yourself, here are the instructions, as compiled by Rick.

How do you make a motorcycle helmet visor? It’s easy. First, buy a 50,000 square foot factory. Next, fill it with a zillion dollars worth of injection molding machines, robots, inspection equipment and raw materials. Then add a highly skilled and experienced staff who know how to design the products, engineer the processes and make everything flow smoothly through the plant.

All kidding aside, Rick does go into a very detailed description of the process as explained to him during a recent tour of MXL Industries, Inc. Incidentally, MXL manufactures about 50% of all of the OEM and aftermarket visors that are used by Shoei.

Although the MXL contained quite a bit of proprietary systems and such, Rick was able to take enough photographs to provide a quasi virtual tour of the the facility.

Enjoy your education for the day!

How to Make a Motorcycle Helmet Visor [Rick K. via webBikeWorld]

MXL Industries

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More to follow in this space. I am just a guy who is interested in motorcycles. I currently ride an '04 HD Heritage Softail Classic (I traded in my '06 HD XL 1200 C in February 2008). I started this site because I am just arrogant enough to think that I can put together a site that appeals to a wide, cross-section of riders on several different levels. I hope you find it interesting, provocative (just really wanted to use that word :-) and fun and that you will encourage others to visit as well. Thanks!
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