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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #90 on: August 17, 2018, 10:19:58 PM »
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #91 on: August 22, 2018, 02:11:34 PM »
GG: the helmet below is available in XXS. It is a youth helmet, so the range of sizes are a little different. A Youth medium is the same size as an HJC XXS.

http://www.motorcyclegear.com/street/youth/helmets/hjc/cly_matte_youth_helmet.html
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #92 on: June 16, 2020, 03:01:41 PM »
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #93 on: June 16, 2020, 03:26:12 PM »
I have too many helmets and not enough heads! Currently, Kabuto (love the ratchet chin strap and inner sunshade), AGV and Scorpion. Full face and 3/4...oops I forgot, I also have a Biltwell.
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #93 on: June 16, 2020, 03:26:12 PM »

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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #94 on: June 16, 2020, 07:16:39 PM »
I like this one I just got.




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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #95 on: June 16, 2020, 08:02:42 PM »
Caberg Trip. I've been riding since 1952, this is the most comfortable quietest helmet I've ever had.

Once you go over the hill, you pick up speed!



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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #96 on: June 16, 2020, 08:11:36 PM »


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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #97 on: June 16, 2020, 09:43:59 PM »
Arai Quantum with Sena 10U built in. Snell approved.


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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #98 on: June 16, 2020, 09:46:31 PM »
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #99 on: June 17, 2020, 03:18:17 AM »
2 smooth 2 groove..



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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #100 on: June 17, 2020, 06:30:28 AM »
Nolan N44 with light tint mirror shield.

Helmet has great visibility (best I've owned) and is a modular design. Fairly light, Good head/top ventilation, but shield fogs easily without pinlock. Easily the noisiest helmet I've had in years. The NCOM intercom is a rebranded Sena with decent sound and great battery life. I have the mic tucked away, only use it for GPS guidance and music. Oddly, this helmet does a good job muting high pitched sounds such as valve tap, etc, but makes the exhaust boom louder. My other helmet an AGV Skyline (6 years old) is the opposite, lets in the high pitched noises and mutes lower.

The worst part of the helmet is wind noise. Love the fit, comfort, finish and visibility, but wouldn't get again.







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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #101 on: June 17, 2020, 08:19:03 AM »
'Been wearing a Shoei Qwest helmet for the last 10 years.  Past time to replace, I suppose.  My new Bell Star MIPS DLX should arrive in the big brown truck sometime today. 

I wore Bell back in the 70's when they were a good helmet, but they must have made a decision to start making low quality helmets.  Appears that they're now making good stuff again, and the Bell Star is a great fit for my long oval noggin. 




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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #102 on: June 17, 2020, 02:47:12 PM »
Hi Everyone, it's been a while so I guess my account and posts have been deleted from Wildguzzi.  Anyway, I had a motorcycle related accident on May 28th, so here are

 the pictures of my Shoei helmet which did it's job wonderfully.





Notice the damage on the front? I’ve had similar or worse damage on the front of my helmets 2 of the 3 times I’ve been down. I’ll try to find pics of mine. Anyways, this is why no open face for me! I threw away my half helmet I had for touring. I’m too beautiful to risk it!!!

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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #103 on: June 17, 2020, 03:00:14 PM »
My first helmet that I still have. It’s over five years old so has been mostly retired. Pic was selfied while stopped!





My next helmet. The major road rash was on the front but I didn’t post it bc I didn’t want my mom to freak out too much





My Icon to replace the Z1R. It was destroyed on I-85 northbound when I hit a ladder. Again the front and side took the brunt. Again no pics of damage for above reasons!





My current helmet. Darker than I’d like but it was on closeout! Also currently needing bug removal. I’ll do it later...







And finally, my fantasy helmet for wearing when Immigrant Song by Led Zepplin is playing!!!




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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #104 on: June 17, 2020, 08:20:17 PM »
Caberg Trip. I've been riding since 1952, this is the most comfortable quietest helmet I've ever had.


Hey Creaky, I'd like to see your helmet from 1952 ?
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #105 on: June 18, 2020, 10:39:40 AM »
I bought this AGV recently on a close-out sale (half-price!!) to go with the ol' Yellow Horse!! :thumb: :cool: :wink: :smiley:





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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #106 on: June 18, 2020, 11:57:03 AM »
Hey Creaky, I'd like to see your helmet from 1952 ?

Helmet??? You gotta be kidding! I did, some years later, get a motorcycle lid, it looked a lot like this.



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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #107 on: June 18, 2020, 04:23:05 PM »






Genuine leather. Next years model.
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #108 on: June 18, 2020, 06:09:49 PM »
Helmet??? You gotta be kidding! I did, some years later, get a motorcycle lid, it looked a lot like this.




Like this one 👍



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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #109 on: June 19, 2020, 10:46:49 AM »
I've always seen old photos (usually posed or photo-op or advertisements) from the 30s, 40s, and 50s of guys riding bikes in aviator caps, with a bill on the front.

And SELDOM do you see a chin strap to hold it onto the guy's head.   I'm sure that a lot of that is due to the fact that the picture is "posed", like the old magazine covers of a guy supposedly at high speed on a bike with no glasses or any eye protection, which just isn't possible.

I'm sure that some of that aviator-cap-ability is due to the fact that the old bikes were pretty slow.   I remember reading a story by one of the guys who rode to Hollister for the big to-do that a lot of the guys were on wartime Harley and Indian 45s, that would do 45 or 50 MPH on a long run ... but even so, I know that at 65 or 70 with an open-face helmet and goggles, that the wind is pulling so hard on the helmet that the strap starts to choke you ... I can't image what it would be like trying to hold an aviator cap on your head at speed!    Leather flight helmets, I can see that; but a Johnny Strabler-style cap .... ?

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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #110 on: June 19, 2020, 01:20:12 PM »
Motorcycle Gear web site just put ARAI on close-out.  The good stuff, too.
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #111 on: June 19, 2020, 02:30:24 PM »
My uncle Fred was taught to ride a motorcycle when he enlisted in the Army during WWII and served as a courier. Thank goodness, he was one of the lucky ones that made it back to the farm. As soon as they were available, he bought a Harley 45 and toured the USA, brought back a wife from New Mexico. He continued to ride until he was 90 years young....ALWAYS on a Harley. I don't recall that he ever wore a helmet until around the middle sixties, always had on a cap with the Harley logo on it. When I was a young teenager, he frequently came by our house and took me for a ride. He treated me to my first Big Boy hamburger, I hadn't even heard of a Big Boy up to that time. I still miss him. RIP Freddy.
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #112 on: June 19, 2020, 02:48:31 PM »
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #113 on: June 19, 2020, 03:49:08 PM »
My uncle Fred was taught to ride a motorcycle when he enlisted in the Army during WWII and served as a courier. Thank goodness, he was one of the lucky ones that made it back to the farm. As soon as they were available, he bought a Harley 45 and toured the USA, brought back a wife from New Mexico. He continued to ride until he was 90 years young....ALWAYS on a Harley. I don't recall that he ever wore a helmet until around the middle sixties, always had on a cap with the Harley logo on it. When I was a young teenager, he frequently came by our house and took me for a ride. He treated me to my first Big Boy hamburger, I hadn't even heard of a Big Boy up to that time. I still miss him. RIP Freddy.

Great story and memory.   :thumb:
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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #115 on: June 20, 2020, 04:13:35 PM »
Nolan N21 Visor. Great light weight for hot weather. Flip down sun shade and four position clear shield.



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Re: Let's see your helmets!
« Reply #116 on: June 20, 2020, 04:40:56 PM »


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Re: Let's see your helmets!
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