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01-28-2004, 03:33 PM
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Helmets
I am thinking about buying a small sports bike come spring/summer, but I want to research the safety equipment a bit first. what things should you look for when buying a helmet? does a cranium cap ( the ones that look like a WWII helmet) protect the same as a full helmet. Is it easy to breath in a full helmet with the visor down? are there different grades of materials, or are they pretty much made all the same? Thanks for you help, I want to do this right.
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01-28-2004, 06:43 PM
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The carnium cap works better than nothing, as long as it is DOT approved and not an actualy helmet from WW2, but as for protection, a full face helmet is much better.
No they are not hard to breath in visor up or down. My favorite helmet is arai. extreamly light which your neck will thank you for after hours of riding, well ventalited and great protection. I dont know as much about materials, so i wont just type to see my self type, but im sure one of the knowlegeable user on AF can cover me Hope this helps, and glad to see your taking the time to research safty. Seriously 
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01-28-2004, 11:09 PM
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Re: Helmets
I would advise against the WW2 helmets. They offer little if NO protection at all. If you go down and happen to smack your head its the side of your head that will take most of the beating not the top, so no those WW2 helmets wont do a damn thing. They are gay as hell IMO. Anyways back to the REAL helmets. Yeah Arai and Shoei are the best money can buy. The main reason they cost more is of course NAME brand and quality. They are super light yet offer great protection and have very good ventilation systems. You can buy the cheaper helmet such as HJC or KBC just as long as you look for the SNELL/DOT rating. I have an HJC and an ARAI and like the HJC but LOVE the ARAI. Like XV said its light and doesnt hurt your neck after long rides.
As for the fogging up, almost any helmet you get will fog if your stopped at light and breathing right on it but you can buy things for that. "FOG CITY" is one thing you can buy its about 15 bucks and it goes on your visor and prevents any kind of fogging. Works really good.
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01-29-2004, 05:18 AM
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Re: Re: Helmets
thanks for your responses guys. I appreciate the help. one thing I forgot to ask, about how much would I be looking to pay for the arai or the shoei??
of course, I know no amount of money is comparable to your life, just need to factor in for budget wise.
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01-29-2004, 11:12 AM
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Shoei and Arai may be great helmets, but you're buying the name... Expect to spend well over $300 for either... and that's for a plain jane one...
I LOVE my HJC-AC11 helmet!!! It is a full-face helmet (IMHO the ONLY way to go with helmets). I had a helmet before (KBC) with awful ventilation, and it was heavier than my bike itself... The AC11 is newly redesigned as of the 2003 riding season. The ventilation is VERY good, and adjustable in 4 of the 6 vents. Provided with the helmet is a fog-mask-thingy that actually comes up over your nose (many only cover your mouth) and I NEVER get fog in the helmet--even at temps under 45*F. They also give you a "bug screen" that goes in the bottom of the helmet to keep creepy-crawlies from coming up the opening at the bottom. I spent $250 (which was one of the more expensive prices for this helmet b/c it has chrome decals on it... my brother has the same helmet and it was less b/c of his decals). I honestly can't say enough about this helmet, it's cool in the heat and warm in the cold. It's made of a composite, which is not the lightest, but I don't have any problems with it.
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01-29-2004, 06:01 PM
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Re: Helmets
Do not skimp on your helmet, I have a full face Aria. It is also my third helmet by Aria, the last two served their purpose the 2 times I crashed.
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained.
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01-29-2004, 07:39 PM
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Re: Helmets
Yeah, once you crash, the helmet is useless, dont forget that. Any kind of crack and its time to replace it
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Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. Romans 12:19 "What if the truth is that there is no truth? The only thing i can prove is there is no proof" Reconsider Everything, 311
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#8
01-30-2004, 05:16 AM
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Re: Re: Helmets
thats good knowledge to keep in mind. I am hoping, I can find a good used 600 bike for about 2000 max, hopefully lower. I dont want to spend more than 2500, but if thats a unatainable goal, I would go higher, just setting a base level of what I want to achieve.
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#9
01-30-2004, 05:59 AM
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Re: Helmets
Always look for SNELL or ANSI approvall and of course DOT.I like a full face for the protection of of bugs,rain and debris.Read the manufactures age limit and saftey precautions.Those ww2 helmets are more for show than go.Quality helmets vary in price from appr $160 to $600.
Elrod on the V-Rod
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01-30-2004, 09:43 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Helmets
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01-30-2004, 04:24 PM
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Helmets
Honestly, I am not looking for a bike with alot of get up an go to start with, thats why buying an older bike isnt that big of a deal. even if its been scratched up, I bet I will prolly dump it a few times practicing. I'll spend the big bucks when I am comfortable and feel I can handle a bigger bike, then I'll opt for a new one. I am just having a hard differenciating between the ATV's and Bikes in the paper.
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01-30-2004, 08:01 PM
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Re: Helmets
http://www.cycletrader.com/
have fun
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained.
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02-01-2004, 01:51 PM
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Re: Re: Helmets
thanks for the link. Hopefully I can find one close to me, that I dont have to travel far.
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