Favourite helmet?

[buoy]

I quite like the look of these:

http://www.customlids.co.uk/helmets/.../RX8-black.jpg

http://www.customlids.co.uk/helmets/...rxx_carbon.jpg

Dude on Trademe selling them for about $500

[claire]

I use a Shark that I bought from Mt Eden Motorcycles when I bought my 600 from them. Would buy another one but would probably buy the next model up from mine and a size smaller next time.

Chris uses an Arai and wouldn't use anything else - except maybe an Aaron Slight replica Suomy!!!

Claire

[Marknz]

Hey Mark! Some wanker's scribbled all over your flash replica!

Give me his address and we'll go sort the prick out

Seems fitting that you finally ride a Suzuki with a Mladin rep.

yea, bastards just grabbed it off me a scribed all over it!. But then at least Loris and Nicky came out to do it... Vale just pissed off to the hotel to sign his Yamaha contract and left us all waiting till 7pm... prick ! Feckin' good racer tho

I'm with you, let's grab Jimbo and get tickets to the next MotoGP and track the bastards down!

[Coldkiwi]

Yeah if you wanna look like an astronaut! "Beam me up CK"

There's Klingons on the starboard bow!
starboard bow!
starboard bow!
There's Klingons on the starboard bow!
starboard bow! JIM!
:spudguita

[MikeL]

I see FFM helmets advertised in KiwiRider magazine. Very good price, made in N.Z. Are they cheap and nasty? Anyone got one??

[Kickaha]

Hey Lou was that helmet a Rossi replica? If so it was my old one that got damaged when we crashed the side car at Paeroa this year, and of cousre not selling AGV helmets they would have to say that woudnt they?.

You're not Stu's passenger are you? I heard he stacked his outfit at that meeting.

I currently use a Lazer good fit and after doing a bit of trip covering about 1300km as comfortable as anything else I have used,I previously had a BMW systems 3 which cost twice as much and wasn't as good to wear.

I also own a cheapie THH which is used occasionaly,build quality is not as good,but comfort is.

Offroad I wear a HJC CL-X3,comfortable and with a removable liner and ajustable peak and quick release strap.

All the helmets I use have quick release clips,bit of fiddling to get the adjustment right,but I doubt I would buy a helmet with out it.

[tz tony]

No I am not his passenger, my mate Grant owns this out fit and we are both newbies to sidecars, powered by a T150 Triumph engine. Didnt make the race as it damaged an oil feed line as well as the body work and my helmet!

[k14]

Just wondering what you people have as the fastening mechanism?? I have D rings on both my Shoei's and will never use anything else. I reckon it's the best and safest way to fasten it too your head.

What does everyone else think???

[Coldkiwi]

i started on a quick release equipped Grex and loved it. Some bugger flogged that from uni and I bought my KBC galaxy with a double D ring. Thought it would irritate me but it barely takes me 5 seconds to do it up and undo it now so I don't care. It is better than a quick release for two reasons 1) it is always going to be the right tension where quick release buckles need re tightening every now and then 2) if done up properly, it cannot come undone. A quick release is almost certainly not going to release but there is a small chance it could fail (spring goes etc).

I did a brief research project on helmets while at uni and discovered that Lazer are just about the only company to use a steel chin bar on their lids. To my knowledge, chin bars are not tested in any of the current snell, BS or ISO standards for impact despite the fact that it is a well known fact that having one dramatically reduces the risk of facial injuries and roll off in a spill. I'd definitely look at buying a lazer if I knew where to get them. (but do they have a darth vader looking one?)

[merv]

So much about helmets to me has something to do with how they fit your own head. When I bought the WR I thought it must be time I got another helmet instead of wearing my 10 year old HJC open face dirt helmet. Into Sawyers I go thinking I might go for a Nolan hat this time, but nope, try the bugger on and for my fat head the problem was it was way too straight on the inside lining with no nice little sculptured type pockets for my ears to fit in. Try HJC again and perfect!! So for some reason HJC seem to make helmets that fit my head whatever damn shape it is as my full face road hat is an HJC also. If I'd bought a hat too tight across my ears, instant headache.

Moral of the story is you have to try them on and in the end no matter how fancy the graphics are, to me, the bugger has to fit right. I had hoped to buy one to match the colours of the WR (i.e. blue) but had to settle on a black, white and silver job because that is all that was in the country in my size in time for the Pukemanu ride at the time.

Have stayed away from quick release road and dirt because they aren't that easy to adjust and I'm happy with the strap type.

[DEATH_INC.]

I see FFM helmets advertised in KiwiRider magazine. Very good price, made in N.Z. Are they cheap and nasty? Anyone got one??

From what I've heard these things are only assembled here......
Because of this,they qualify as N.Z. made and are why we can't get helmets without the huge duty(unless you get one in yerself....).That's why helmets here cost twice what they do in Aus.....

[Kickaha]

It is better than a quick release for two reasons 1) it is always going to be the right tension where quick release buckles need re tightening every now and then 2) if done up properly, it cannot come undone. A quick release is almost certainly not going to release but there is a small chance it could fail (spring goes etc).

That is meant to be the reason for using d rings,however the only guy I know who had a helmet come off in a accident was attached with D rings,we don't think he had it done up properly but who knows.

Lazer used to be ditsributed by Darbi's, don't know if they still do.

[vifferman]

D-rings are inherently safer in that they are less likely to come undone.
My AGV has a plug-in type fastener, and I like it because I can do it up and undo it with my gloves on (even though I usually don't).

[madandy]

I recal rumours about early clip type straps coming undone but I'm sure they'd have it sorted by now...I'm a 'D' ring man myself and chose to wear a HJC AC-10 'cause it fits right and 'cause its made of composite stuff thats is supposed to tough.

[White trash]

While we're on the subject. Isn't it funny how you're told to replace your lid after even a minor knock?

Superbike mag did an independant helmet test. Dropped them all from a third floor window onto concrete. Then they do whatever the European impact test is at the same point the helmet landed on.

EVERY SINGLE HELMET PASSED THE TEST AFTER BEING DROPPED!

Australian Motorcycle news interviewed a head honcho at Arai and was told by the factory man that if a helmet can't withstad being dropped every now and then from a seat or what ever then the thing shouldn't be sold.

Interesting