Send me $100 for the first prototype of my magnetic bug juice helmet visor cleaner thingie, you'll have the first one and replacement parts are available from the dollar store!
I'm on the third proto now amazing how intricate something as goofy as this gets, but it does allow me to keep my visor bug free while riding with minimal distraction and time away from the left grip.
Well, i'm kinda tapped out after all the orders of the last week, but I'm intrigued to know how this works? (Unless this is a joke and I just didn't get it
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I suspect it's something real, but I too, remain befuddled...
The offer to sell was a joke but the protos are real. I've been using these steadily refined protos all week. I'll take some pics of the protos this weekend and post them here.
These are made with parts from the dollar store.
The case is a reusuable food storage tub about 2" high, 7" long and 3" wide. I consider it to be too wide and too tall for optimum.
The cover for the container is used when not using the thing to keep mositure in.
The bottom of the cover has a sponge glued to it to hold moisture.
The cleaning sponge was made with a wet side and a dry side with a rubber sheet in between, it is microfiber with a sponge under it.
Foam should be used for the sponges as regular celulose ones will actually crack when dry (yeah I did it).
The rubber inside the cleaning sponge fits the food storage container to keep mositure in there when riding, and also to secure the sponge.
The thing is mounted with some rare earth magnets glued into a rubber sheet that is glued to the underside of the storage container.
It works great, allows me to debug the helmet with the left hand in only a few seconds.
In the hot you only need to use the wet side as the thin residual moisture evaporates in seconds.
If that is too wet you turn it over and use the dry side.
Moisture on the dry side evaporates while the sponge is in the container as its dry side up and wet side down.
I've actually learned a lot about this so far and have dozens of refinements to it that would make it a great product adaptible to almost all bikes.
The heat in Oregon just started and I love the back way to and from work, so I want to keep the screen down and the bugs off my visor.
My old method involved spraying cleaner on the visor and using a sponge in the map pocket. I did this for about a month before trying to do something better.
The spray would go all over the place even running up under the visor on my 3/4 helmets (I wear these in the heat just when the debug is most useful).
This could be a real product but I'm at a loss to see how it could sell enough units to make it worth while as you would need to sell at least 1K per month. Even with the dollar store approach you have to sew the sponge together by hand, no such sponge exists that I could find via google. Honest the rubber in between is key without it the thing goes dry in less than half an hour.
Anyway, anyone with 50 or 100K to spend on a motorcycle accessory pipe dream, maybe we wouldn't go broke?
And if we got this going we could do the cup holder and the 'pull back the crotch of these damn jeans , electrically operated, no balls in a thimble ,thingie too'.
