Helmets, helmets, helmets....

[falcoron]

I've a tour-x, just bought it a few months ago. Always owned arai and always liked them. Last one was a rather expensive rxx-7x or summat! £500 quite a few years back!
Likes and dislikes on the tour-x?
likes;
Undeniable safety record,looks, sun shade peak, overall quality (but not as good as older arai's) fit.
dislikes;
noisey as feck, draughty as feck, steams up loads when raining even with it being so draughty and with all vents open. (probably down to screen on the GS) although a pinlock insert has just been released.
Side wind will rip yer head off at any serious speed. Oh and it hurts like fook on me left ear after about an hour riding. I know it needs bedded in, but it hurts like crazy. Overall its a good helmet but not great! and it's pricey! If it was a cheap lid and had all these faults you would say its right shite! but noone wants to say that after spending nearly £300. Some people love em some hate em i'm still somewhere in the middle, jury still out so to speak. But it looks the biz on a GS there is no denying that!
Cheers
Ron

 

[noelirwin]

Tour X - I also got the very annoying vibes from the peak on my GS1200 - so selling it now (not the bike!!), and I don't want an MRA screen to sort it.

 

[Sylvester]

Don't like the BMW lid, its too Bruce Forsyth. My Priorities are: It has to be quiet, no draughs if poss and not steam up in the wet. So far none of the comments have made me want to go and spend hundreds of euros/pounds/dollars(deleate as applicable) on either the tour x or the hornet. I'm off to get a "Proper" lid without the beak and the silly chin piece "Alright My Loves" as Brucie would say. Living sausageside may mean oblligatory purchase of the St George Arai, should cut a dash amongst the Cologne traffic!

 

[BigAlMacMac]

I've a tour-x, just bought it a few months ago. Always owned arai and always liked them. Last one was a rather expensive rxx-7x or summat! £500 quite a few years back!
Likes and dislikes on the tour-x?
likes;
Undeniable safety record,looks, sun shade peak, overall quality (but not as good as older arai's) fit.
dislikes;
noisey as feck, draughty as feck, steams up loads when raining even with it being so draughty and with all vents open. (probably down to screen on the GS) although a pinlock insert has just been released.
Side wind will rip yer head off at any serious speed. Oh and it hurts like fook on me left ear after about an hour riding. I know it needs bedded in, but it hurts like crazy. Overall its a good helmet but not great! and it's pricey! If it was a cheap lid and had all these faults you would say its right shite! but noone wants to say that after spending nearly £300. Some people love em some hate em i'm still somewhere in the middle, jury still out so to speak. But it looks the biz on a GS there is no denying that!
Cheers
Ron

Glad to see some negative comments on the TourX. I did not get on with it at all. Noisy, drafty, steamed up (despite the draft) and leaked. Uncomfortable above 50mph and you couldn't do a proper life saver on a motorway unless have a neck like a bull.

Now have a Schuberth C2 and brilliant, quiet, confortable and best of all the internal sun visor is a piece of magic. Can't imagine how I would have handled a very sunny Norway and all those tunnels without it.

Oh and BTW the TourX paint it unbelievably soft.

I did want to love it but it is probably the most overrated thing I have bought in many a long year.

 

[fatgser]

what about the new bell enduro style looks the dogs