Help me choose a full face helmet please

[Cookiemonster...]

What is the smallest possible helmet size you can get- I mean the case size i.e. the actual size of the thing when you look at it from the outside.
As far as I'm aware manufacturers just use the same outer shell and vary the interior stuff when labelling. So from the outside an XXS looks exactly the same as an XXL
This is ridiculous. I am nowhere near six foot but I do have a large head.
So when I get off the bike I look like the bobble head second picture. I hate it so much. I want to look like the first picture and need something proportional to my slim body and below 6 ft figure.
Why has no motorcycle manufacturer pioneered making proportional full face helmets that take into consideration body types as well as the head.
I am sure most women must have this problem too.

Edit: INB4 people say it's safety, doesn't matter how you look. Well I care and I want both.

[recman]

I've seen some ridiculous posts on here this year but congratulations on sneaking in so late in the day and taking the biscuit.

[to v or not to v]

try an retro style open face helmet. pretend youre steve mcqueen.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[MCN]

[stevo123]

There has to be so many mm of space between your noggin and the outer shell to absorb impact. In other words if you have a larger head you need a larger helmet, don't worry about the look - that is a secondary consideration.
Perhaps as suggested you could try a different style like mx or one of those from Ruroc - they are different and look really sharp.

edit - I quite like the Airoh Valor range myself. Got a HJC now but my head is oval and HJC fit better on round so I had to slightly compress the forehead area with a ball to make it stop pinching. Might want to take head shape into consideration as well.

[droog]

Some manufacturers do produce different shell sizes for their helmets - I think AGV do a couple of different sizes and I've heard that some brands have up to 4 or even 5 different shell sizes - so a helmet with a small fit interior will have an aesthetically pleasing and in proportion small size exterior - you would have to do some research to find out which brand produces several shell sizes.

https://billyscrashhelmets.co.uk/about-crash-helmets-shell-sizes/

I actually had the 'bobble head' experience with a Roof Daytona helmet which had a very big 'one size fits all' exterior shell size - I'm just under six foot and average build - but I was convinced the helmet looked totally out of proportion to the rest of me and that I looked like the comical 'bobble head' you mentioned - my feelings were confirmed when I was stopped up at some traffic lights and a woman in a car stopped at the lights opposite me started laughing hysterically and pointing me out to her friends sat in the car next to her.

Because I had realised prior to this incident (from looking in mirrors and riding past shop windows - because I am a narcissist) that the helmet looked out of proportion and kind of silly, I knew that she was laughing at my ridiculous, out of proportion to the rest of me, Roof Daytona bobble head.

So yeah - I can say from personal experience that shell size, bobble headedness and getting laughed at 'is a thing'.

Alternatively - who gives a sh*t what other people think? Us bobble heads are people too.

On the other hand my Roof Daytona is now sitting in the cupboard collecting dust - I wear a nicely proportioned AGV these days.

[oilyrag]

What bike do you ride? I think it's a daft thing to think about. I would be more inclined to get a bulkier jacket with more armour rather than a smaller helmet.

[droog]

[oilyrag]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think we need to see an actual photo so we can have a good laugh reassure the OP he doesn't look silly.

[Wull]

When you arrive where you are going take the helmet off quickly enough that nobody takes any notice and then they won’t stand and laugh at you.

In all seriousness, who cares. What size do you wear? Can’t be that bad surely, put a pic up and let us decide
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[ThatDippyTwat]

[droog]

[oilyrag]

It's all in your head. Just forget about it. Nobody takes any notice of the size of your helmet. People have more important things to be thinking about.

[stinkwheel]

Having an excessively large shell size amplifies the neck-torquing effect in a crash in a liner manner.

Airoh make some lids with very low profiles and small shells.

Arai have 6 shell sizes.
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[oilyrag]

I think he's more concerned about girls laughing at him than neck-torquing effects

[stinkwheel]

Also:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0739/6727/products/Motorcycle_Helmet_Cover_-_Blue_6_600x.jpg
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[A100man]

I've thought about this too, but never for very long.
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[A100man]

[ThatDippyTwat]

[oilyrag]

The guy he wants to look like in the first post looks like a prat to me but each to their own.

[Cookiemonster...]

Hi everyone, thanks very much for all your advice. Have a good new year.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

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