when I first started on bike..full face were expensive compared to open face so started with the open lid...never had the misfortune to be hit in the face whilst riding (thankfully)...having used both over the years would always opt for full face....but i dont think open face should be banned...we have enough restriction as it is...
Riding with a full face on a chop, looks kinda out of place to me, but i can see the safety aspect of them.
Im deciding now on a new helmet, and thinking of a USA shorty.http://www.drshosting.co.uk/fshlapp...jpg
As long as both are legal, wear whichever you choose for whatever reasons you believe are relevant and don't be too swayed by the PC brigade.
I wear a full face in the uk but sometimes I wonder if my lifesavers are really effective with the limited peripheral vision.
In India, particularly the state of Goa I wore an open face. I was about the only tourist I came across wearing any sort of helmet there!
I made the choose for myself to wear a helmet and was not intimdated by the 'cool' dudes, but it was too hot for a full face
I've got a a Caberg flip helmet with the black visor that comes down, love it! Keep it full face most of the time but when it's toasty in slow, Manchester 5:30pm traffic I often flip it up for a bit of extra air :-)
Would never have it up on't motorway etc, mainly due to flies in my hair, euch, and the thought of what might happen if I came off!
All personal choice though so up to you guys really :-)
Its an old Caberg Justimo thing for me, flip front with the sun visor. The only times I have the front up, is either at the go-go juice shop, been fleeced,.. or argueing with the pilly (while stopped), about where the ell we are! On my ST it gets a bit noisy over 80 without plugs in, no matter where the screen is positioned. Though I usually ride (if its a dark day), with the visor up, and just wear some clear safety glasses in case I meet the odd airborn stone, (or a super-sonic buzzing thing with a yellow and black @rse!)
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i know exactly what your going to say before you finnish reading what im about to put................... open face ,,,,,,,,,,,, if or when i decide to wear a helmit, ( thats the freedom of a trike , when i done john o`groats i had hailstones in the face and `king frozen fingers , but hey i did what I wanted to do , ( and legal to do it )
Mad ................YES.........................but comming out of mersey island the other day , i was saluted by a biker going the other way ( i say each to his or her own , at the end of the day do something that scares you ,(it may just keep you ALIVE)
i know the story about the biker who came off his bike with a jerry lid on and when they turn`t him over his tounge was just flapping about in the breeze , as he did not have a chin at all
PEACE>LOVE,& anarchy ( i may loose some friends and may win some , but hey thats life.) BUT MOST OF ALL RIDE FREE XXXXXXXX
I love both my open face (Scorpion EXO 100) and my flip-top (Caberg Trip), though the latter combined with my height and a screen damage my teeth. Honest! The buffeting has shattered a rebuilt tooth and loosened many fillings. Not so the open face.
I love the better vision AND audibility (noisy though) as I can hear everything around me including any odd noises coming from the bike and prats sitting in my blind spot. I use a buff to soften the blow from bugs and rain (yes, rain hurts at 60mph+) and the EXO has a retractable internal visor plus an external one too, for shade.
Like most here, I like being able to lift the flip on my Trip, but the helmet is not approved for that, though like others, I've had no worrying glares from the plods.
Has anyone any experience of the Scorpion EXO 900, a flip you can convert to an open face and v.v. (in case it snows)?
It's also approved for open-flip, even though it doesn't go all the way back like on the Shark. I'm very tempted.
I read somewhere, that most accident fatalities were caused by the front of full face helmets hitting the deck and obviously snapping the spine, the open face helmet would indeed supply the wearer with far more facial injuries but keep your neck in one piece, im no oil painting at the best of times so could live with a few scars, but pretty much rely on my spine and neck to stop my head flapping about in the wind, food for thought or just the ramblings of a mad man ??????????? you decide :-)
Don't know about the stats on injuries in relation to open versus full face. Years ago I had an accident where the handle bar come through the visor, luckerly between my check and pads, massive black eye, but I firmly believe that if I'd been wearing an open face I would not be here today!!
Its individual choice, but buy the best you can.
<!--6e052d28b1806771e2d163a041d4a5d4-->Has to be full face for me after an off many years ago when I hit my face on the top of the screen on a BMW 28 stitches in the nose and one in the eyeball itself, 8 days in hospital wondering if I had become blind in one eye, but all was well although I have to wear glasses now. But that couod be old age as well
It's great to hear so many different opinions on this. Didn't realise about those statistics. I have only been wearing my open facer for wee local runs. Caberg full face for the rest this year.
I have one of the Sharks that flip up and over.
First time I wore it went for an overtake quick life saver and the bloody thing screamed at me with the wind on the side plate. got used to it now but shook me up first time.
Only use it for round town now
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