another helmet choice help thread

[sbn]

Yes I know there are alot of helmet threads, and if you are tired of reading about helmets please feel free to exit this thread

Ok I need some help choosing a helmet for my girlfriend. She would like the helmet to be a flipup helmet with sunvisor.

Helmets we are looking at for the moment are: Shark Openline, schubert C3, BMW system 6, Airoh SV55, Airoh Cezannee, Airoh Miro.

If you have any good or bad experience with any of these helmets please write a little about it here, or if you know of any online testarticles please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[ukaluk]

take a look at the new ROOF bulldog v8 looks very sexi with all the bits you want

 

[sbn]

I have one of the roof boxer classic helmets, dont like it too much andy my girlfriend dont like the looks of the roof helmets.

 

[Wapping]

I have one of the roof boxer classic helmets, dont like it too much andy my girlfriend dont like the looks of the roof helmets.

Looks like you and your girlfriend are halfway to choosing a helmet already. But, your reply illustrates the problem quite well.

There are lots of different helmets and lots of different heads. So what appeals to (and, more importanly, fits) one person is totally unacceptable to another. For example, the Nolan flip-front. It's quite popular. I tried one in a shop (it was in Motowardhus in Stockholm, forgive my spelling) and it seemed OK. I bought it, but I hated it on the bike. I sold it to a chap on UKGSer, who thinks it's great. We are either both right, or both wrong, or somewhere in-between.

Helmets, are rather rather like eating fish and meat. Some people do, some don't and some are fussy in-between.

 

[sbn]

Looks like you and your girlfriend are halfway to choosing a helmet already. But, your reply illustrates the problem quite well.

There are lots of different helmets and lots of different heads. So what appeals to (and, more importanly, fits) one person is totally unacceptable to another. For example, the Nolan flip-front. It's quite popular. I tried one in a shop (it was in Motowardhus in Stockholm, forgive my spelling) and it seemed OK. I bought it, but I hated it on the bike. I sold it to a chap on UKGSer, who thinks it's great. We are either both right, or both wrong, or somewhere in-between.

Helmets, are rather rather like eating fish and meat. Some people do, some don't and some are fussy in-between.

I totally agree, thats why in my first post I named a few helmets that we have looked at, and are interested in. I dont mind at all if people give their thoughts on other helmets I would love to hear what you all think of different helmets. But the ones I mentioned in the first post, are the ones we have tried on and liked.

My girlfriend tried on the different styles from schubert and bmw. She thought the schubert C2 was a very big helmet and it didnt feel right on her head. Same goes for the schubert concept. The new C3 is a smaller helmet and she thought that fit was very good.
The system helmets from bmw fit her head very well also, but the system 5 is not an obtion since it does not have a sunvisor. The new system 6 does.
The Airoh helmets also fit her head well.
The shark helmet we actually havent tried, have just heard from friends that they are very happy with their shark helmets, and the ones I have seen seems very well made.

Both the schubert and bmw seems very strong and good made but are also a lot more expencive. The airoh seems cheaper made and I dont know much about them, dont know any who own one, so I wanted to hear from people who have or had one.

Is the higher price eaquel to higher safety? Or are schubert and bmw so expensive because of their name?

About the roof helmet i own. I got it about 6 years ago when I got my first bike a yamaha xv drag star 650. And I really wanted an openface helmet, and the roof classic is an openface helmet with the option to be a closed helmet in rain and bad weather It also fits me well. My opinion on the helmet is how ever that even when closed it will not be much safer than when open if in a crash. Thats why today, an a bikecrash experience richer, I wouldnt use this type helmet again. And thats why I dont like it. My girlfriend dont like the looks of the roof helmet designs and want to ride with a closed helmet all the time anyway.

She doesnt like Noland and caberg helmets, mostly because of how they fit her head.

 

[Dainese Brave]

I was in the market for a flip-lid about a year ago.

I have to be honest and say that I'd always hated the look, and concept, of flip lids.....but a trip to the Balkans in 40 degree plus heat last year made me realise their practibility i.e cooler, less sweaty, easier to take photos etc.

And so I did the rounds at the dealers trying different ones on, different makes, different prices.......

....and the end result is I didn't buy one!

They just didn't fit me...none of them really!.....the only one that seemed to be comfortable was a Shoei one, but don't know the model

From my experience though it seemed the more you paid, the better the comfort seemed....but then like has been said..every head is different, so buying helmets is really about getting out there and trying them on.

Good luck

 

[illustratedman]

Lids

Have a look on http://www.webbikeworld.com/ lots of reviews there.

 

[Tarka]

Check out the Caberg flip fronts..they have clear main visor and tinted inner sunsheild.

Glambabe has the original Justissimo model and rates it very highly with superb comfort and ventilation.....hardly any misting either.

There`s a newer and even better specced version of this now.

I bought a Trip model and although it was very comfortable it misted like mad and rain came down iside the visor,plus the venting wasn`t very good.
Mind you,I`ve gone off full faced helmets and now that I`ve sawn the front section off it makes quite a good open faced one.

 

[Tarka]

Is the higher price eaquel to higher safety?.

Nope.