recommend a helmet?

Hi sorry to follow suit just sold my knackered inside but still tidy outside Doohan rep Quantum, the buyer uses them in displays.
Got a new old stock Arai for ?100 delivered from Padgetts motorcycles a Xana rep? It is a bit tight at present but the same size as before, had lots of helmets over 42 years all major brands but the vision and lightness of the Arai wins for me.
If it worked before it will again.
ps seen a slow speed step off at traffic lights turn a bit nasty as the chap had an open face on then slid a few yards, we used to wear these all the time...
Good riding coventrykid
 
Just looked Joe,maybe I could change :o :o good looking helmet the Hakka UK made by looks of things and a decent price of around ?325
 
Laverda SF said:
I buy a helmet that is a tight fit then remove the liner and sand the foam using 80 grit paper and shape it to my head.
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If you want a really good fit, mix up a bucket of epoxy and trowel it onto your head. Your hair (if you have any) should provide enough fibre reinforcing. If you don't have any hair, chuck in a bit of glass fibre.
 
i think it should be absolutely compulsory to wear a good, thick, home knitted by your granny, woolen balaclava under a helmet - it has so many advantages, like sommer adding to the safety factor with the extra padding and keeping the wind from breaking you hearing and disguising your identity from the oke you just showed a particular finger to and............................
 
You-know I am kinds surprised someone doesn't do a custom fit like high end Ski boots,those boots have a removable liner that gets formed by sticking your foot in a mold and having foam injected around them.Bloody expensive but the ultimate in comfort.
 
Vince said:
You-know I am kinds surprised someone doesn't do a custom fit like high end Ski boots,those boots have a removable liner that gets formed by sticking your foot in a mold and having foam injected around them.Bloody expensive but the ultimate in comfort.
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one of my swiss mates has boots like that - cost over 5000 swiss francs, so to descibe them merely as 'expensive' would be criminally misleading!
 
aren't there any brands out there that use the viscous density dough that's used in mx, ski and mountainbike protection? POc or Leatt make knee, arm and back protectors from it. It would make perfect sense in a helmet. if you push it slowly it absorbs the form, but transforms immediately to hard when hit. (waiting for the first lewd joke)
 
So not suitable for a helmet then.
You need something to absorb hard knocks, not transmit them to the brain.
 
Have had Arais for the past 14 years...good but not perfect, and now bloody pricey! And why is it they don't come with some speakers built in and maybe a microphone so you don't have to muck about with wiring in an intercom kit? The Shoei flip down tinted visor wouldn't go amiss either
 
aren't there any brands out there that use the viscous density dough that's used in mx, ski and mountainbike protection?
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Quite interested in this:  If I get stuck in some remote and inhospitable part of the world with a broken GS, I could cook the lining of my crash helmet and have a nutritious meal while I wait to be rescued...
 
lemonjelly said:
Just looked Joe,maybe I could change :o :o good looking helmet the Hakka UK made by looks of things and a decent price of around ?325
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Versatile lid Shaun. When I am either in city traffic or out in the wilds, I like to go openface and the beauty of this helmet is that it is designed to ride along with the lower guard right back..Very slick...  I can get them for ? 300.00 from the local bike school. The instructors use them..

cheers

joe
 
Reggie3cl said:
Quite interested in this:  If I get stuck in some remote and inhospitable part of the world with a broken GS, I could cook the lining of my crash helmet and have a nutritious meal while I wait to be rescued...
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exactly that. only less salty than aiki noodles.
Grant, i may not have explained well: while not hit, it can absorb the form of your skull and sit really confortable. When hit, it hardens up to protect you. But Granted (!) In the mean time i have been looking up the brands who offer this material, and none of them use it in a helmet, only spine, knee, rib cage and elbow protection are offered. So it mustn't be ideal in a helmet for some reason.
 
Reggie3cl said:
Quite interested in this:  If I get stuck in some remote and inhospitable part of the world with a broken GS, I could cook the lining of my crash helmet and have a nutritious meal while I wait to be rescued...
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cook it in what? how would you light the fire it's always damp up there.
 
I personally like Nolan helmets, had a few and very impressed by the quality for the price, got a suspicion that you are paying for the name with some of the most expensive helmets. Had a few AGV helmets but not too impressed with their longevity, trim cracking and visor coating delaminating.
The Nolan I've got at the moment is one of front the flip up face piece. Seems some helmets are designed for the sit up riding position so when trying on a helmet, assume your riding position  and make sure your vision isn't impaired by the upper edge of the helmet.
 
I had a look at one of those Reevu helmets the other day. They're the ones with the little rear-view mirror built in at the top of the front opening. Since race bikes don't have mirrors, I thought it might have been a good helmet to use on the track to see whether someone was about to try an overtaking move.

It seemed a perfectly good helmet in all other respects, but the rear-view feature was disappointing. The optical components were made of plastic, which isn't a problem in itself (optical grade plastic has been around for ages), but the prisms had obviously not been ground to shape because it had quite a bit of distortion. It was like looking through wavy glass. I'd have thought that they would have put a bit more effort into the optics seeing as it's the main point of differentiation between their helmet and all the others on the market. 

If the rear view feature had been as good as their advertising blurb says it is, I'd have been tempted to buy one.
 
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