I've never thought about it before...I've been using my helmet for 4 years now. It fits perfectly, and I worry I won't find a better one so easy.
I've never thought about it before...I've been using my helmet for 4 years now. It fits perfectly, and I worry I won't find a better one so easy.
I guess there's a big difference between someone who keeps their helmet in the bag it came in, and looks after it fastidiously, and someone who lets it fall off the seat of the bike time and again.
Found a goodie in the rafters recently. My uncle moved to Australia some 15+ years ago and left us with a few boxes of bits and pieces to store. Why, I don't know, maybe they thought they'd be back. We unearthed it when we moved house... Opened the boxes and asked him if he wanted anything. His old race helmet from goodness knows when was determined to be "too old to be of any use". Just as well, as the lining foam disintegrated in my hands. It went to a good cause though: the volunteer firefighters use them in training (practice removing helmets from dummies).
I replace mine when the look ratty. Its really all about the look, and while having a few bin trophies does increase your street cred, after a while a new shiney helmet just looks cooler.
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
I just checked my HTC CLX3 and the date on the inside rear is FEB 2002. I FREAKED. Once this Covid-19 is over a helmet is my first purchase! My full face helmet is a Oxford and I really really like that. It's very comfortable and stable at high winds and also seals really well with the visor down. I'll probably get another one of those.
Summit that has popped up on a Youtube channel I watch is the strap mounting points of dirt oriented helmets corroding. Quite a few have snapped.
I checked a few of my helmets, road and dirt, they all have varying degrees of corrosion. I must have a reactive scone.
Definitely something I will be keeping an eye on as time goes by.
Manopausal.
good reason (in my mind) not to spend a small fortune on a helmet with (insert racer name here) replica graphics. If it costs $1200 then there is going to be a natural disinclination to replace it when needed. The graphics will do nothing to save your head, but a plain colour may save you hundreds of dollars.
Also, to a car driver, a plain white helmet suggests "cop" and they start paying a bit more attention.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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Fair enough on the fancy graphics thing. Another angle is some of these fancy graphic helmets take a while to sell, so if you see one on special have a look at the label showing date of manufacture. I've looked at a few around the country, record so far is a helmet on special for 55% of RRP with date of manufacture almost 4 years ago. Argue that any which way you want.
Plain colours white and yellow, yep you will get a second glance. Keep in mind also that those colours will also stand out against most backgrounds, so being figured for a LEO would also require a bike to match
Hate to break it to you, but nobody has run into me in the last 3 decades, when I've been on my motorcycle.
But I've had plenty of conversations with riders who claim car drivers are idiots, when it's actually the rider whose skill and attitude needed a reality check. Different conversation though aye
Ah yes, when I've been asked to partake in incident or accident investigations, the obvious comes to the fore. Vast majority of accidents are human error, and in a good portion of those accidents the so-called victim could have helped themselves. But that would require sound situational awareness and getting the basics right. As for unavoidable accidents, yeah they do exist, but in small numbers.
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