I usually ride around town with my visor half open, so that my eyes are shielded, but I still get the fresh air and avoid fog.
Sorry to hear about those tickets, though. Sounds like the cop was just having a bad day and needed to take it out on someone, or, as someone else posited, there were a lot of complaints about loud bikes these days.
Now, that said, I dont know why they never go after the Harley crowd. Straight pipes that set off car alarms are okay, but a slip-on pipe on a japanese bike is 'too loud'. Meh. Same thing happens in the car scene... domestics get off light for speeding and other driving offenses, modified imports dont.
The most blatant example of this trend I've ever seen was along a block of parked cars, all of them with expired parking meters. DPT cop went down the line writing parking tickets for all the japanese cars on the block, and not ticketing any of the american ones. After he left, I went and looked at the cars he'd failed to ticket to see if there were any reasons why (parking permit, handicapped placard, etc) but couldt find any. I was pretty steamed, but what are you going to do?