Rainpal is a scam

[ScaredyCat]

Update edit for lazy people

This thread is getting long so here are some summary links so you don't need to wade through. Excellent summary by Armchair Biker

http://armchairbiker.com/rainpal-motorcycle-windscreen-wiper-troubled-times-for-fledgling-company/

With an update (needs another update too!).

http://armchairbiker.com/update-rainpal-in-prototype-announcement-shock/

Both armchairbiker posts have vanished (you can still read via the images below - right click, open in new tab)

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/_bcf/mowa/armchair_1.png


http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/_bcf/mowa/armchair_2.png



Dodgy pricing practices :

http://rainpal.tech

This thread is still worth having a read though


Original:

Errm, a windscreen wiper for motorcycles that isn't the size of a brick..

Launch price is £45.. Looks a more reasonable effort than those that have gone before.

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/general/Rainpal_Exploded.JPG

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ofcqsbDPQc

Website http://www.rainpalrevolution.com/
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[CaNsA]

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http://i.imgur.com/kou2iD4.jpg
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[ScaredyCat]

Actually, If you hadn't replied I'd have deleted it. This is an indiegogo campaign launch, so I'd stay well away from it.
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[AnPhonEh]

Looks like it might actually work to a degree. But only in light rain.
Either way - I'll let it come out and see how it's reviewed.

The explanation for the product is poorly written on the website and just goes on and on and on and on and on.
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[Ste]

[hedgehugger]

How quickly could it scratch your visor up if a bit of grit, bird seedy shit, or whatever got stuck behind the blade?


and copied from the website ............"About a year ago I was fed up not being able to see riding in the rain and my girlfriend was fed up of holding her hand on my visor like a cap."

Really!?

[recman]

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[Alpineandy]

I keep meaning to try this stuff
http://www.rainx.co.uk/rain-x-products/rain-x-plastic-water-repellent/

Anyone else tried it?
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[Andy_Pagin]

Either get one of those rubber wipers that slips over your glove forefinger, or just use the glove finger 'as is'.
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[Petemate]

When I was couriering a small patch of chamois leather on the forefinger of the left glove always worked for me.
Now of course (chicken lol) I don't ride in the rain.
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[Petemate]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Whats wrong with using the back of your thumb glove?
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[FretGrinder]

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[ScaredyCat]

[J.M.]

[Ariel Badger]

[TheArchitect]

[Rogerborg]

Looks awesome at removing computer generated rain.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/79-could-save-your-life-riding-in-the-rain

$538 raised of $95,000 goal, a year ago.

It's a plausible idea. Does it actually exist and work though? If it did, then surely any seller with half the wit they were born with would have sent the first batch out to bike magazines for review.
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[Alpineandy]

[ScaredyCat]

[TheArchitect]

[Rogerborg]

Agreed, regular Rain-X used regularly, zero adverse effects.
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[Petemate]

I currently have both Muc-off products, ie cleaner and anti-fog. Not used either yet as my new helmet has only been on for one trip and isn't even dusty. We will see how they go. I don't know if the Muc-off cleaner is anything like the Rain-X stuff in make-up. However, I did have an occasion to hate the Rain-X stuff a few years ago. One of my sons, with the best of intentions, treated my windscreen with the stuff. The car in question (which I no longer have) had a windscreen which was quite peppered with minute marks from normal use (it was the original screen) and the very next day there was sunshine ahead which made it almost impossible for me to see through the screen. I realised that the stuff was causing thousands of light refractions from the Rain-X and when I got home a liberal workout to the screen with meths sorted it out. Said son had a bit of an ear-bashing from both of us later......
However, Rain-X on a perfect glass screen is good. Back in early 2007 I collected a Model A Replica Roadster from Preston. On the way home to Oxford I encountered very heavy rain for about 20 miles down a stretch of the M6 near Brum, and vision was perfect. When I collected the car, the seller calmly said that he had applied Rain-X to help me in case it rained on my way home as the wipers "weren't working properly". Meaning that there was not even any rack between the Mini motor and the wheelboxes. (Strewth) So I as glad of it then. (ironically it was the same bottle that the Model A seller had given me that my son got hold of to do the dirty deed lol)
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[recman]