Are open face helmets more dangerous?

[GrayWolf]

To answer a point raised about neck injuries on full face helmets, yes they were responsible for neck injuries.. that is why helmets now have a 'cutaway' rear section of the neck, whereas the old oned were a 'flat continuous ring' around the jaw and neck, meaning the material it was constructed of, became a 'ridge of hard material' your neck was snapped over.
Re the question?
Used all types, open/full/flip.... I use only flip these days, but good quality ones.
Open face give you the advantage in traffic of better peripheral vision, AND importantly better noise registering around you.
Full face without question offers better facial protection. Flip front give 'best of both worlds'??????

[KX500]

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[Flip]

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[skippa1]

Full face is definatly the go if you are out and about on the big trip, I got an open face for around town as I found in summer it was more dangerous overheating in my full face than wearing the open. Hot or not on the 100km/h + rides, the full face is on. I too had the misfortune to land face first on the ashphalt at over 85km/h and would not have wanted an open face helmet on.

[skippa1]

Open face helmets are for Harley riding faggots who try to make up for their small dick by riding a loud, heavy and poorly engineered excuse for a motorcycle.

you talk with authority on matters you clearly have no substance in.........beginner

[unstuck]

Even full face helmets sometimes let you down.

[SMOKEU]

you talk with authority on matters you clearly have no substance in.........beginner

Hey, I've watched the South Park episode.

[scumdog]

Hey, I've watched the South Park episode.

Shoot, glad you're speaking with some authorateh!

[Grubber]

Jews and fags lol.

Typical Yarpee! they all seem to be a bit that way inclined.
I work with a handful that are all tared with that brush.
I no longer question why South Africa was in such a state.

Wondering just how helpfull this has been to the content of this thread.

[scumdog]

Open face helmets are for Harley riding faggots who try to make up for their small dick by riding a loud, heavy and poorly engineered excuse for a motorcycle.

So... you're well overdue to buy your first Harley eh, you've already got all the needed qualifications and then some!

[wingnutt]

probably fair to say the full face is the better of the two, however I wear a open face helmet with a visor made of lexan, that comes down past my chin.

Lexan is the same stuff they make fighter jet cockpits out of, so I fiqure thats pretty good protection.

full face make me claustrophobic, and i don't like they way that some of them restrict peripheral vision.

if you decide to buy a full face, make sure you have good side vision, you should be able to see sideways, without turning your head.

[Road kill]

When I had my accident four years ago, part of the chin bar of my full face helmet was ground down paper thin. Superbly happy that it wasn't my jawbone......

Did exactly the same,worn too the poly from the chin to the ear.
Two weeks after buying the thing too,,,pissed but happy.
Still wear an open face riding local anyway.
Open faces are not more dangerous,they are less protective,,,if I'm wearing less protection of just about any kind I ride slower.
For the most part it works.

[SMOKEU]

So... you're well overdue to buy your first Harley eh, you've already got all the needed qualifications and then some!

I don't think I could handle the weight of a typical Harley.

[FJRider]

probably fair to say the full face is the better of the two, however I wear a open face helmet with a visor made of lexan, that comes down past my chin.

Better for what. ALL styles of helmet have advantages ... and depending on the type of use the buyer intends ... will decide what is the best choice ...

Lexan is the same stuff they make fighter jet cockpits out of, so I fiqure thats pretty good protection.

If the fighter jocks were depending on their cockpit screens to stop their face being ground into the tarmac ... maybe you might think that.
I've seen the chin of full-face helmets ground down to nothing ... so don't be too confident about your visors protection ability.

[scumdog]

I don't think I could handle the weight of a typical Harley.

Mrs Scummy is 70kg and has no problems...