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  • #31
    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.
    Nice day, if it doesn't rain...

    '05 ST1300
    '83 502/502 Monte Carlo for sale/trade

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    • #32
      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.
      Pat Kelly
      <p-lkelly@sbcglobal.net>

      1978 XS1100E (The Force)
      1980 XS1100LG (The Dark Side)
      2007 Dodge Ram 2500 quad-cab long-bed (Wifes ride)
      1999 Suburban (The Ship)
      1994 Dodge Spirit (Son #1)
      1968 F100 (Valentine)

      "No one is totally useless. They can always be used as a bad example"

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      • #33
        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.
        Last edited by Crazcnuk; 11-17-2007, 12:42 AM.
        Nice day, if it doesn't rain...

        '05 ST1300
        '83 502/502 Monte Carlo for sale/trade

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        • #34
          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...

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          • #35
            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.
            It is a great big beautiful world out there
            Brent in GA
            Yamaha 80XS1100SG, HD Firefighter Special Edition 02 Road King, Honda 450 rat, 08 Buell 1125R tour modified, 83 goldwing parts bike gone-traded for XJ1100, 2014 HD electraglide police

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            • #36
              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

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              • #37
                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.
                Shiny side up,
                650 Mike

                XS1100SF "Rusty", runs great, 96k miles
                XS650SJ "The Black Bike", engine from XS650H with 750cc big bore kit, 30k miles

                Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out and defiantly shouting, "WOW, what a ride !" - [URL="http://www.flyingsnail.com/Sprung/index.html"]Sprung[/URL]

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                • #38
                  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
                  03 Honda GL1800 Goldwing; 08 Honda 250 Rebel; 1979 Yamaha XS1100SF.

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                  • #39
                    "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.
                    Fred Hill, S'toon
                    XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
                    "The Flying Pumpkin"

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                    • #40
                      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.
                      1980G Standard, Restored
                      Kerker 4 - 1
                      850 Rear End Mod
                      2-21 Flashing LED Arrays on either side of license plate for Brake Light Assist, 1100 Lumen Cree Aux Lights,
                      Progressive springs, Showa rear shocks
                      Automatic CCT
                      1980GH Special, Restored
                      Stock Exhaust, New Handlebars, 1" Spacer in Fork Springs, Automatic CCT, Showa Rear Shocks
                      '82 XJ1100 (Sold)
                      Automatic CCT, RC Engineering 4 X 1 Exhaust, K&N Pods, #50 Pilot Jets, YICS Eliminator. Sorely missed.

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                      • #41
                        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
                        03 Honda GL1800 Goldwing; 08 Honda 250 Rebel; 1979 Yamaha XS1100SF.

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                        • #42
                          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!
                          Marty (in Mississippi)
                          XS1100SG
                          XS650SK
                          XS650SH
                          XS650G
                          XS6502F
                          XS650E

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                          • #43
                            [i]The worst part is, my nose starts itching every time I put that thing on! [/B]
                            Nose hair trimmer!

                            Van
                            03 Honda GL1800 Goldwing; 08 Honda 250 Rebel; 1979 Yamaha XS1100SF.

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                            • #44
                              New Enough

                              Helmet blow out at New Enough


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

                              Van
                              03 Honda GL1800 Goldwing; 08 Honda 250 Rebel; 1979 Yamaha XS1100SF.

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                              • #45
                                FULL FACE ALWAYS ... so I still have a "FULL FACE" if I go down ...
                                Rob
                                KEEP THE RUBBER SIDE DOWN

                                1978 XS1100E Modified
                                1978 XS500E
                                1979 XS1100F Restored
                                1980 XS1100 SG
                                1981 Suzuki GS1100
                                1983 Suzuki GS750S Katana
                                1983 Honda CB900 Custom

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