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Supreme Being
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Well, I was sort-of right. My memory had them as propellers, where they were really circular with vanes on. But I found an original advert for them:
http://www.forums.lcgb.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6864&view=next&sid=7d955a376284176082f56af06e2d0b90, about half-way down the page.
So I'm not mad. Yet.
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Supreme Being
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Oh now they are attractive........NOT.....
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I knew I'd seen these things before also, so If you are mad, then I must be also. That ad looks like it could have come from the pages of a Flash Gordon comic mid fifties. I wonder how fast they would spin? (dependant on the speed you were going I'm guessing). What sort of bearing required for the whole contrivance to spin upon? Would there have been a problem with chopped up aerial fauna spattering ones Belstaffs and the mature bearded gentleman motobicyclist having to guard said facial hair in case of snagging and resultant possible neck injury. I checked that link out and it was mentioned that karters still use them. Surely not.
Sideways through time
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Supreme Being
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| Can you imagine if you were on a really fast sports bike IE busa, blade, gsxr or something similar, going down Santa Pod with one of those things rotating at about 100000000000,0000 times a minute (ok slight exaggeration) but you would end up being a helicopter wouldn't you????? Suppose it would give us (the audience) something to talk about when you went down the strip, makes a change I suppose from ohhhhhhh he was fast.....
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| I can just see it now. Dude on Hayabusa cruising at 190 down the motorway (where the law and conditions permit, obviously). Visor spinning merrily, flinging off the rain as intended. Rider sits up to see over screen, visor speeds up, gyroscopic effect means rider cannot turn head, smoke starts appearing from visor bearing, visor gets a wobble on, horrible screeching noise, visor lets go at 12,000 rpm, slices through neck of rider, decapitating him, bike gets tank slapper, end of world as we know it. Hmmm. Think I'll stick to a standard visor and a spot of Rain-X, thanks.
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Surely there must've been a major health and safety issue with those things! Bloody dangerous if you ask me. I'll stick to my Shoei me thinks! 
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Black Dog (29/01/2007)
Is anyone else on this forum old enough to remember those propeller-type visors that were the fashion for scooterists in about 1965? Worn with an open-face helmet (yep, Centurion) and clipping on just like a standard flip-up, the visor took the form of a perspex propeller about 6 inches in diameter. As you rode along, the propeller whirled round and (in theory) flung all the rain off by centrifugal force. One of these. The Rotary Rain Visor. 
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Yup, that's the boy. Curious.
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PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a Gimp!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Oh god.... hehehe.... not laughed like that for a while! ..... ok breathe...........Pahahahaha!
Yamaha FZS 600 Fazer ... in gold! Ride safe, and look out for the Rainbow of Death! There're only 3 kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those that can't. Roses are red, Violets are Blue, I'm a schizophrenic ..... and so am I! Take pity on the man who invented the drawing board, when he screwed up, he had nothing to fall back on. Stuff everything, I've always got my bike.
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Mazz (19/02/2007)
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a Gimp!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Oh god.... hehehe.... not laughed like that for a while! ..... ok breathe...........Pahahahaha! <pats Mazz firmly on back> Just breathe normally, you'll be OK in a minute. ... I'm sure ... BWAHAHAHAHA that picture FNAHAHAHAHAHA Effin priceless.
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