Caberg Brutus

[Ichy]

I was looking for another helmet a few months ago, something like a roof boxer or craft RX7 when, on one of my trips, I saw a Caberg Brutus. Now I thought Caberg was a good name. The colour matched one of my bikes, I liked the shape, it fitted well and was quite light, so I brought it.

I've used it just a few times, maybe 100 miles, with just one problem that I was coping with, until last week.

That one problem is that it is one of the worst helmets I have owned for fogging up. My own fault, the visor is only anti scratch, not anti fog. Not a problem I thought, I'll get a new visor with anti fog. The trouble is I can't find any so I had to ride around with the visor propped open.

Anyway we had a lot of fog last week and I wear glasses so there's no way of winning this one. I get to within a mile of work and I can't see a thing so I pull over and just give the inside of the visor a wipe with my finger, this is what I ended up with. For some unknown reason the coating on the inside is flaking off. I've attempted to contact caberg but the only place I can find contact details is on an Italian website and they haven't bothered to reply. I'm going to have to buy a new visor but all the replacements available are genuine caberg BTW I think its the same visor on the trip helmet.

[G]

You should be able to get the place you bought it from to sort it.

Worth looking at a pin lock or fog city system if you do get another visor the same - and this would probably help protect the inside of the visor as well.

[Ichy]

Totally agree but I brought it when I was in Germany

I know, you don't need to say it.

I was thinking of fitting a fog city insert but not sure it would look right with the shape of the visor?

[nrml76]

Oddly enough, my caberg V2 is the best standard helmet / visor I have had for not fogging up. The worst I've had is the Shoei raid II. It is simply unusable without the pinlock insert. Shoei must have realised that, because they supply one with every Raid II they sell. HJC's are pretty bad too for fogging up.
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[Method]

[Ichy]

Probably being dumb, but why a Motrax stand?

[unfazed]

Motrax is a distributor, i use a fog city insert in my brutus which i keep as a spare sporting a dark visor. works ok.

[Gazdaman]

Even though this is a negative thread I looked on eBay and just bought one.

Think I paid a bit over the odds, £42 for a red one with white stripes with a black visor included.

But it sure is sexy, and sure will look fugly on my blue bike.

Gaz

[Ichy]

Yeah I was looking at the two on ebay just to get some cheap visors!

The other one went for about £26. I forgot to put a sniper bid on it

The visor and lack of response is the only thing I'm having a winge over. I love the look of the helmet and it is definitely one of the lightest I've owned. Hopefully you can tell me if you have the same problem with your visor.

[Ichy]

Gaz, how have you got on with the helmet?

This is the reply I had from Motrax:

[Gazdaman]

On my dark visor it's come away slightly, clear one seems ok but then I don't think that's been used very much.

I can't notice it when I'm wearing the lid, only when I look at it closely from the outside, so I'll live with it methinks.

Gaz