Givi x.01 adventure helmet

[snowr0]

Mornin! Just wondering if anyone has experience of this lid and what it's like to live with?

 

[snowr0]

Sorry - Givi X.01 Tourer - not explorer!

Mornin! Just wondering if anyone has experience of this lid and what it's like to live with?

Sorry! Called it explorer where is actually called a TOURER!

reason I ask is toured Picos last month with my Givi X.08, flip front, 90% of miles chin up and either visor or sun shield down, but now not 100% sure of legallity of riding chin up.

X01 looks brilliant idea, so either open or full face, just wondering if anyone knows any issues with it.

I appreciate it's possibly noisey due to contour and no two bikes / riders have the same air flow around them!

Any thoughts?

 

[Fanum]

Mornin! Just wondering if anyone has experience of this lid and what it's like to live with?

Yup

One of my favourite helmets I've ever bought.

Bought mine untried (nobody around had one to try on) and took a big risk in setting off on a 15 country tour with it brand new out of the box that morning....a really daft thing to do but it worked out superbly, 'cos it was comfy from the off

I mentioned it in my write up HERE

I'm still using the same helmet most days, and when I need to, would happily have another one.

When I got mine, they'd sent two left hand side aero panels rather than one for each side, and I never got that resolved, but it hasn't made much difference.

I lost the two trim panels that you slot into the end of the cheek sides to tidy it up when you wear it as a jet helmet, so if you're prone to losing little bits and bobs, that could be an issue (I just wear it like that without the two pieces in)

In off-road mode, there's a nice big gap between the chin piece top and the bottom of the visor for airflow, and it feels good.....in winter mode, the helmet seals up quite nicely and I have less fogging problems with this one than I do with my Caberg or I ever did with that poxy Tour X i had years before it.

It's comfy, light, has resisted damage and scratches well (I stuff it into my panniers quite firmly and a gloss finish lid would have been scratched to buggery on the crown by now) and it took my ear speakers and boom mike really well.

The odd ratchet gizmo that secures the chin strap is dead easy to do up and undo with even winter gloves on and hasn't worn at all....I occasionally give it a good tug and it's still secure, though it was a bit of a worry when I first saw it.....

I think I did a review of it a good few years back, but I'd still buy it again having lived with it for longer

Overall, I reckon it's a great lid and really well priced......(I think I paid 200 quid +/- a tenner when new)
The only place I've seen them on the shelf since then though is at Cliff's adventure bike shed in Sudbury, so trying one on could be tricky unless you have a stockist....I bought mine blind but as I say, it worked out well....you may of course have a completely different shaped head so you may not find it so comfy