Open face or full face?

[Paul in NZ]

Hmmmm

http://www.rideicon.com/products/?productGroupId=142717

Icon Airframe Statistic Icon has just fired a broadside across the bows of open-face helmet makers. The Portland-based company only makes full-face helmets, and the latest variant of its Airframe lid reveals why—with a sharp dose of black humor. It’s called the Statistic because the graphics highlight the areas most likely to take an impact in a crash, using widely accepted figures from German research. The chin area takes the hit around 35% of the time, and the front of the face takes around 10% of impacts. (A figure not printed on the visor, for obvious reasons.) At $390 it’s more expensive than most other Airframe styles, but then again, you know the joke about having a ten-dollar head …

[Big Dog]

I can tell you I have never been to an accident where the visor and or the chin bar did not receive damage. That might only be about 5 on the road but in the dozens marshalling.
Edit: not counting my own.

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[Oscar]

The last time I wore an open face helmet on the road, I left my front teeth in the bonnet of a Vauxhall Viva.
My jaw was broken and my top lip so badly split that my entire top gums and teeth were visible.

[Ulsterkiwi]

so what is the attraction of an open face or similar helmet?

[Big Dog]

The wind in your face. I have a couple. They are only used for very slow riding. E.G Pootling around a paddock at walking pace. Such as at the classic festival if you're camping there and it's a long walk to the long drop.


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[Motu]

I wore an open faced helmet for 20 years, and my face it still as pretty as ever despite crashes on and off road. I still wear an open face when riding trials....for many years we didn't wear them. Not saying there is nothing wrong with them, but you need skills when crashing in with an open face.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Buy my open face au!

[admenk]

Oh good, the old open vs full face helmet debate...

[AllanB]

Full face all the way

[Motu]

Oh good, the old open vs full face helmet debate...

Which took over the pudding basin vs ''full coverage'' debate....which took over from the helmet vs no helmet debate. Someday we might have something that makes a full face look dangerous.

[Big Dog]

Which took over the pudding basin vs ''full coverage'' debate....which took over from the helmet vs no helmet debate. Someday we might have something that makes a full face look dangerous.

Their called cars, with air bags and seatbelts and side intrusion bars and side curtain air bags and...


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[haydes55]

Their called cars, with air bags and seatbelts and side intrusion bars and side curtain air bags and...


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I knew nuffing abowt side curtin aiir bags befow my a-cident.

[Erelyes]

Icon do some fucking cool helmets. Wish there was an NZ distributor.

[amboman]

Been riding for 30 years and always wear a full face. Been a paramedic for nearly 20 years and after seeing what I have seen I wish more people would wear them as well!

[swbarnett]

Been riding for 30 years and always wear a full face. Been a paramedic for nearly 20 years and after seeing what I have seen I wish more people would wear them as well!

Why don't you wish riders didn't crash?

Or, to go the other way, riders didn't ride.

The choice of how much risk is taken and how much is mitigated and how is solely the responsibility of the individual. My only desire is that people make informed decisions.