I don't often find myself with anything good to say about Touratech, but despite the stupid name (and nearly the same name as their other helmet which is not at all the same) this is a good lid.
I wanted a new hat for our recent jaunt out to Transylvania and Bulgaria and back through the Balkans. It was to be a trip with lots of different types of rides, with some motorway days, some dirt and gravel track days, and some meandering days. Temperatures were going to vary a lot too, from 4-35 celsius.
So - I wanted a hat that had a peak I can remove easily without tools, a flip front, and a drop down sun visor, and a visor, but the ability to take goggles if needed, and with good ventilation to save me from a boiled head.
It turns out there aren't too many that meet this spec - in fact, there's only this and the Schuberth E1, which this helmet is based on, and that helmet is based on the C3.
I have an off-road helmet, but they just take goggles and goggles are no good on a rainy motorway. I have an old Tour-X, but it has no flip down sun visor and I was forever either swapping visors (not a quick job) or squinting, plus a flip front is so handy for toll booths and border crossings.
I looked at lots of helmets, the Shoei Hornet, Shark Explorer, but the one that fitted the bill was the E1. But, the colour way I wanted wasn't available, plus the venting didn't seem great. I usually steer clear of the TT website, but Google led me there and the Aventuro seemed to fit the bill. I'd tried on the E1 so I knew the size, TT were uncharacteristically helpful, and so I ordered the one I wanted - took a few days but TT were spot on in the delivery estimate.
Basically it's an E1, but it does have extra venting, and it has better (IMHO) colourways, and maybe there are some differences around the chinbar. It's also about the same price.
So after 4500 miles, I pleased to say it worked very well, I took the peak off (no tools, 1 minute) for motorway days but left it on the rest of the time, ventilation was good (for a road helmet), it was very comfortable and worked very well with our Sena 20S comms which proved faultless on the trip. Also, previous C3 owners (me being one) will be familiar with the deluge coming down the inside of the visor in the rain and I'm pleased to say that despite a day with rain of biblical proportions it stayed dry on the inside (as did the Klim Badlands
).
So there you go - good lid for a typical Gser style trip with a mix of riding, stupid money but then they all are now.
I wanted a new hat for our recent jaunt out to Transylvania and Bulgaria and back through the Balkans. It was to be a trip with lots of different types of rides, with some motorway days, some dirt and gravel track days, and some meandering days. Temperatures were going to vary a lot too, from 4-35 celsius.
So - I wanted a hat that had a peak I can remove easily without tools, a flip front, and a drop down sun visor, and a visor, but the ability to take goggles if needed, and with good ventilation to save me from a boiled head.
It turns out there aren't too many that meet this spec - in fact, there's only this and the Schuberth E1, which this helmet is based on, and that helmet is based on the C3.
I have an off-road helmet, but they just take goggles and goggles are no good on a rainy motorway. I have an old Tour-X, but it has no flip down sun visor and I was forever either swapping visors (not a quick job) or squinting, plus a flip front is so handy for toll booths and border crossings.
I looked at lots of helmets, the Shoei Hornet, Shark Explorer, but the one that fitted the bill was the E1. But, the colour way I wanted wasn't available, plus the venting didn't seem great. I usually steer clear of the TT website, but Google led me there and the Aventuro seemed to fit the bill. I'd tried on the E1 so I knew the size, TT were uncharacteristically helpful, and so I ordered the one I wanted - took a few days but TT were spot on in the delivery estimate.
Basically it's an E1, but it does have extra venting, and it has better (IMHO) colourways, and maybe there are some differences around the chinbar. It's also about the same price.
So after 4500 miles, I pleased to say it worked very well, I took the peak off (no tools, 1 minute) for motorway days but left it on the rest of the time, ventilation was good (for a road helmet), it was very comfortable and worked very well with our Sena 20S comms which proved faultless on the trip. Also, previous C3 owners (me being one) will be familiar with the deluge coming down the inside of the visor in the rain and I'm pleased to say that despite a day with rain of biblical proportions it stayed dry on the inside (as did the Klim Badlands
).So there you go - good lid for a typical Gser style trip with a mix of riding, stupid money but then they all are now.
