Used one today with the internal sun visor. The internal sun visor steams up quite easily to the point were you hold your breath until you pass out. Not great at all, not my helmet, just tried it to see what I thought. Not that noisy, then again it was a bit small and my ears were crushed. Gave it back to wifey.
Pinlock is the way to go, its very good. BTW, after less than 1 day of operating the sun visor, it did not fully retract to the point I had to push the external button slide back. If internal sun visors steam up from normal use, my perception would be to stop manufacturing products that have a potential to impede an accepted level of vision.
I don't know if it is fair to generalise but it would appear that people with large heads are deemed low-priority customers by HJC. The carbonfibre HQ-1 that I have two of has only one shell helmet size for all (probably a common idea used by other manufacturers)- the method used to accomodate all head sizes being the thickness of the detachable cushioning pad/furniture fitted inside the shell. This is fine unless you are a big head as you can only use the skimpiest of padding and as evoarrow above has said, I originally got crushed/bruised ears until I relieved the area with a scalpel.
It's not chilly though, the pinlock is fine and it works, but the internal is crap. Positive, felt quiet, not much buffeting. My perception, the helmet was not designed to take an internal sun visor. It was an addition without RD.
I've got two HJC lids and they're both great but I'd never buy one with an internal sun visor. Just seems a bit gimmicky to me - and definitely not much use if it fogs up...!
I can see that internal sun visors are a great idea. But I'm too much of a tart and prefer the cool looks of a dedicated black visor. I know. Im a luddite and a slave to fashion.
Need a favour, could you ask fin why the alfa rev's up and up and down from 1k? It kind of jumps up and down regular, about 1k to 0.5k revs. Drives fine, revs good. Ticking over is jumpy.
