Type of helmet poll

[Crazcnuk]

Full, open face all the time. If I had to wear a full face, I'd sell my bikes and take the car.

Someone should check on the serious neck injuries caused by helmet weight, then correlate that against how heavy a full face is.

[Pat Kelly]

Weight isn't the primary reason for neck injuries.
How well the helmet absorbs impact does.
When I worked at a Honda dealer I had two demonstration helmets I used.
One was a $30 helmet (open-face, not that matters for the demonstration) and a $200 helmet (expensive for 1982). A customer would come in asking for "the cheapest helmet you got. My wife insists I wear a helmet".
During the sell I'd show him the difference. I'd drop the $30 helmet from shoulder height, it would bounce back to about waist high. Then I'd drop the $200 helmet and it hit the floor an bounced about an inch. Which one is most likely to cause neck injury?
I sold a lot of $120 helmets.

[Crazcnuk]

Most helmet related neck injuries are not caused during a helmet impact.

It's the extra 10lbs on your head that pulls out neck vertebrae in a sudden stop (impact). You don't have to hit your head at all to wreck your neck.

I hope you didn't sell any of the helmets you dropped. Once they hit the floor they should have been garbaged...

I like to feel the wind in my face. It's the whole reason for being out of doors. I don't even use a visor in the rain. I do like a little sunvisor, but thats it.

If I have to be totally enclosed, watching snot and breath collect on the mouth guard, it's a lot more comfortable to take the car.

[pggg]

Full face arai and shoei, black matching the bike, tinted visors, weight around 3 lbs, full comfort/protection, plush and quiet, quick flip of the visor still gives all the wind and hardship for anyone so inclined...

[Brent]

flip up helmet

I agree about the full face with glasses being difficult. I got a Zeus flip up helmet for $100, but would not recommend it; cheap & much wind noise.

For a few dollars more, I could have got a Nolan.

Happy motoring,
Brent in GA

Originally posted by fredintoon
I usually wear an HJC full-face that's perhaps reaching it's "best before" date.
I confess to wearing my wife's 3/4 helmet while she went helmetless in the 105ºF heat in Montana last summer. On backroads. With a vintage motorcycle group. Riding a sidecar rig. NOT a thing I'd do on the highway, even with Montana's lack of a helmet law.
When my current helmet is a touch more nackered I'll be looking at a flip-front. Getting a full-face on and off wearing glasses is a total pain.

[mro]

I agree about the full face with glasses being difficult

I have a full face Nolan and wear glasses too. No problems...did take the face shield off tho (made it hard to smoke with it on )
Next must have is a removable liner.


mro

[xs650mike]

Voted half-helmet, which I usually wear but have a new full face for the winter months. Used to use a full face years ago but since I'm wearing glasses now I don't like the hassle. May try a modular next though.

In 49 years (has it been that long?!) of riding with quite a few spills in my youth, I've only hit my head once. I was wearing a POS puddin' bowl which cracked in half but it did save my noggin.

[van]

All kinds of helmets.

Hi,

My primary ride is a Goldwing. I ride 99 % to every place I go.
With the temps climbing to 103 Deg F last summer I went to my Half helmet most of the summer time.
Now that's it's cooler I use my Full Face Scorpion EXO 700.

I have a Nolan Flip helmet that I can't stand. I also have a 3/4 helmet that I don't wear much.

Weather and the temp are cause and effect for witch helmet I wear.

Van

[fredintoon]

"I have a Nolan Flip helmet that I can't stand."

Hi Van,
and why is that? Is it that it's a Nolan, or because it's a flipface, or that it's the wrong size or because it (or your head) is a funny shape?
Because of the inconvenience of wearing glasses in combination with donning/doffing a fullface I am thinking of getting a flipface when my current fullface craps out.

[Cobia]

Pricey lids

I read several hundred reviews and tests before buying. I also went to the stores and tested for sizing and comfort. Then finally had to agree with the folks at webbikeworld and bought a ZOX Azuma R ($90) for starters. I was totally impressed when I comapred it with the $300 to $500 lids and found little difference in construction materials and comfort.
I then bought the ZOX Nevado R Flip up ($130). It is awesome but a little bit noisier than the Azuma. The Azuma is whisper quiet. If I'm going for a long ride with the flip up I wear earplugs. As the reviewer wrote, why pay more when you don't have to.

[van]

Originally posted by fredintoon
"I have a Nolan Flip helmet that I can't stand."

Hi Van,
and why is that? Is it that it's a Nolan, or because it's a flipface, or that it's the wrong size or because it (or your head) is a funny shape?
Because of the inconvenience of wearing glasses in combination with donning/doffing a fullface I am thinking of getting a flipface when my current fullface craps out.

RE The Nolan,
It's too noisy and it gives me a bad head ache after wearing it for 30 min or longer. The shape of my head vs the shape of the helmet I guess.
The external flip down sun visor sounds like a good idea at first but while using it I found it to be more annoying than useful.
When the sun-visor is down, the lower edge ended up right in the middle of my eye ball. When the sun visor is up it the wind causes it to rattle, it drives me nuts up or down. I took off the sun-visor and went back to sun glasses. I prefer the fit and function of the HJC Symax over the Nolan.
When I got the Scorpion EXO 700 I never went back to a flip helmet again but if I do it'll be a scorpion when they make one.

I still have the Nolan, if anyone wants it, it's yours.
Size: Large, Color: Black,
It had a head set installed, now removed after I retired the helmet.

Van

[jetmechmarty]

I finally acquired a full-face helmet that fits my alien shaped head. I like the feeling of added security, but I'm getting used to the reduced visibility. (I now have to move my head to see the mirrors and clocks.)

The worst part is, my nose starts itching every time I put that thing on!

[van]

[i]The worst part is, my nose starts itching every time I put that thing on! [/B]

Nose hair trimmer!

Van

[van]

New Enough

Helmet blow out at New Enough


http://www.newenough.com/closeouts/b...le_helmet.html

Van

[79XS11F]

FULL FACE ALWAYS ... so I still have a "FULL FACE" if I go down ...
Rob