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Newbuellertoo
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 12:52 am: | 
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I'm convinced! I will figure out the eyeglass issue. I will be asking Santa for a Full Face or Modular this year. |
Bigredwood
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 03:54 am: |
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being big on Safety, I follow the herd on this one. Full Face!
I understand the excuses and allure to the wind in your face feeling. After several off-road accidents, I believe in one reason to always wear a helmet: My ass was wiped by someone for the first year or so of my life . . . I don't expect anyone to ever have to do it again. Thanks Mom.
The worst motorcycle accident survivors are to that can't function mentally. Always wear a good helmet. When I just putt around town I actually wear one of my sponsor helmets . . . Bell Moto 8. THe damn thing breathes so much that I usually wear a head sock under it. The large eye-hole gives great peripherial and it even matches my STT. 
P.S. It is a Snell approved lid 
(Message edited by BigRedWood on September 04, 2008) |
Zane
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 10:45 am: |
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I wear glasses also. I wear a full faced Shoei RF-1000. It really isn't that big a deal to get the helmet on and off even though the glasses have to come off first. The RF-1000 is very comfortable with glasses. Just tight enough to hold them in place but not so tight that it's a pain.
I choose a Full Face helmet for two reasons. The extra protection to the face and head. But more importantly, A full face helmet covers up more of my face and that makes me much better looking. |
B00stzx3
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 10:51 am: |
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Ride without a full face, drive without a seat belt. Its your body, and your skin graft, and your funeral. |
Strmvt
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 03:02 pm: |
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Have it both ways Shark's Evoline helmet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh-DGD__DUM |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 - 11:09 am: |
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I have a 3/4 HD Ultra Jet helmet with a full face shield. I too wear glasses and have ruined a couple pairs of frames with stuffing them into and out of my full face.
I wear the 3/4 helmet in limited situations and the full face the other 90% of the time.
Now with the full face, have taken to wearing my distance contact lenses and carry glasses for close up. It has been working great. |
Retrittion
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 - 12:06 pm: |
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I can't remember where I saw it but I saw a full face helmet that had the internal sunshade (ala Scorpion EXO 1000) and it had a removable chin bar and two chin bars -- one like normal and one that was just the frame with openings (big ones) between the frame-spars on the cheeks but went back solid in front of the mouth. It seemed like it would be good in the summer to get some extra air and it didn't have the hinge wich is something I personally dislike (Though Nolan makes a pretty good one). It was on the same type of sites that have the ROOF and MOMO helmets (Euro/Japanese market helmets). |
Mesozoic
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 03:08 am: |
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For highway riding and sort of distance, I always wear a fullface. For around town, 30 mph rides to the cafe, I bust out a half helmet and wear some Nannini goggles that have prescription inserts in them. I can't stand that setup for high speeds, though... and it's just not safe either.
That being said, my buddy just bought an HJC helmet that's got a dropdown sun shade, is fully modular (so the whole face thing slides up), and he wears glasses too. He definitely loves that helmet. |
Retrittion
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 11:58 pm: |
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Hrmm, that's not the one I was thinkin of (personally I wouldn't trust HJC but that's just my bias). |
Cruisin
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:42 am: |
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My father in law always said "As I'm sliding down the road on my face I want to have lips to smile at the asphalt with!"
That cinched it for me. 
That being said, the wife and I just replace our old helmets with the new HJC Sy-Max II helmets, with the flip-up chinbar and the internal sunshade. The Sy-Max uses metal pins and hooks to secure the chin bar, so it's pretty rugged. No problems getting glasses in (the wife insisted on that) and the sunshade fits over the glasses with no problems. I love it. She gets claustrophobic and has to have the ability to open the chinbar at stops if she starts to freak out. She insists on a full face though, so a flip up is the only option. |
Newbuellertoo
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 12:36 pm: |
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I bought a modular yesterday after wearing a full face for the first time on weekend.
It's a little heavier and noisier than the full face I tried out, but I can put it on and off with my glasses on.
I actually feel much safer wearing it and it has increased my confidence to the point that I actually dragged my toe in the corners twice on the way to work yesterday. Sounds dumb, but it's true.
It's also a hell of lot warmer than the open face with a shield that I used to wear. It was 48 degrees on the way home from work last night. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 01:15 pm: |
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I agree... seeing people in open face helmets makes my skin crawl. The neighbors 8 year old had a bad crash on her barbie pedal bike, going maybe 10 mph. The bike helmet saved her head, but from the nose down she was a bloody mess... and that was from 10 mph.
(she is better now by the way... but she is now afraid to get on the CR-50 that her Dad just bought her... so my 8 year old is helping them keep it running well ) |
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