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smokin joe
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: WTF? Reply with quote
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NJD
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PostPosted: 15:56 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
What's the moaning about? It was £549.99, but is now £399.99. There's no pleasing some. Rolling Eyes

Would love to see the back-up plan for when one of them clips fail through daily use, or the locking system jams up.
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PostPosted: 16:04 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Re: WTF? Reply with quote
smokin joe wrote:
WTF?

AOL.
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sickpup
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
That type has been quite popular in France for about the last 30 years but not legal here until we adopted the E marking system due to no chin strap.
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PostPosted: 18:52 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like an ogre's nutsack
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PostPosted: 19:09 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
sickpup wrote:
That type has been quite popular in France for about the last 30 years but not legal here until we adopted the E marking system due to no chin strap.


Interesting, would you wear one? I guess as delivery/constant removing, it would be useless, but if that wasn't the case?
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PostPosted: 22:07 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I get the feeling it would be claustrophobic for me.
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh dear, I see the visor is missing a feature.

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sickpup
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PostPosted: 07:51 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
Interesting, would you wear one? I guess as delivery/constant removing, it would be useless, but if that wasn't the case?


I like my Arai's.

One of the types that was popular in France which I think the Gendarmerie used had swing up bits underneath instead of a chinstrap so it locked you in by the neck.

This is just an attempt to get around people not doing up the chinstrap and the helmet coming off in an accident.
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bugeye_bob
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PostPosted: 09:49 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Only concern would be if you came off and the hinge area hit something hard, would that impact push any of the hinge mechanism into the skull?
normally the helmet absorb those forces in that area, bit like wearing a camera on your lid.
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PostPosted: 10:17 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
A must have for someone who does not want to ruin their hair style pulling the helmet over their head Laughing
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Shaft
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PostPosted: 10:46 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
sickpup wrote:


I like my Arai's.

One of the types that was popular in France which I think the Gendarmerie used had swing up bits underneath instead of a chinstrap so it locked you in by the neck.

This is just an attempt to get around people not doing up the chinstrap and the helmet coming off in an accident.



That would be the GPA, very popular in motorsport in the early 80s

https://i.ibb.co/rKBDSKZ/80b590716a5da44e40b497e1932c0316.jpg

I had one and it did the thing mentioned earlier, where the lock mechanism malfunctioned while I was wearing it - I had to get someone to attack it with a screwdriver, which wouldn't have been ideal if it had been an emergency.
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PostPosted: 12:07 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
sickpup wrote:

This is just an attempt to get around people not doing up the chinstrap and the helmet coming off in an accident.


Let Darwin sort them out...
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 12:59 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
sickpup wrote:


This is just an attempt to get around people not doing up the chinstrap and the helmet coming off in an accident.


Mind you, last accident I attended, the helmet was lying in the middle of the road with the strap still done up. It did not end well.
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sickpup
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PostPosted: 19:56 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
Mind you, last accident I attended, the helmet was lying in the middle of the road with the strap still done up. It did not end well.


Was the riders head still in it?
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 23:33 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
sickpup wrote:
stinkwheel wrote:
Mind you, last accident I attended, the helmet was lying in the middle of the road with the strap still done up. It did not end well.


Was the riders head still in it?


No. But is that better or worse?

The trick is not to crash in the first place.
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sickpup
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PostPosted: 10:25 - 27 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
No. But is that better or worse?


The question is why did the helmet come off if the strap was done up? Either the helmet was too big which is very common or the strap wasn't tight enough which often happens with cheaper helmets that have overly long straps
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ScottT
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 27 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shaft wrote:
sickpup wrote:



This is just an attempt to get around people not doing up the chinstrap and the helmet coming off in an accident.



That would be the GPA, very popular in motorsport in the early 80s



Same helmet Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari F1 driver) was wearing when he was killed at Zolder in 82, the helmet flew off in the accident.

They were very comfortable helmets though, but in the 80's they made Simpson/Bell helmets look cheap by comparison.
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PostPosted: 09:26 - 29 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
sickpup wrote:


This is just an attempt to get around people not doing up the chinstrap and the helmet coming off in an accident.


Mind you, last accident I attended, the helmet was lying in the middle of the road with the strap still done up. It did not end well.


I'm just going to go with.... D:
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PostPosted: 10:03 - 29 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was coerced into road testing one for a couple of hours in 2016. They're a bit quieter than your average helmet, but they're designed for people without a chin. I wouldn't recommend.
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