a couple for the safety nazis

Bought a helmet yesterday.

Open faced.

second hand.

Nolan N40.

Fits nice and snug, visor undamaged, straps and interior like new.

Garage sale. $25 for the helmet and a pair of near new dri-rider
leather gloves. Someone didn't take to riding.

It must be 25 years or more since I used an open face helmet. It's a
really strange feeling, but one I could get to like.

Visibility is so much better than with the full face. I can do a head
check much more quickly, just need to turn my head to one side, rather
than the contortions necessary to look over my shoulder with the old
helmet. Peripheral vision is also far superior.

It might take a while to get used to the light weight of the helmet.

But the biggest impression is one of being more "out there" in the
environment. The visor comes down to my chin, but I can't see any part
of the helmet except the peak. I keep getting that "naked" feeling you
get if you've forgotten to put on your helmet. A bit like driving
without a seat belt.

I'm aware that it might not offer quite the same protection as a full
face helmet, but IMHO the added primary safety that comes from better
vision makes up for it, especially around town. I'll still use the full
face for 'enthusiastic' riding.

Moike

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:08:22 +1100

heh, welcome to the dark side.

I wear a fullface when deliberately hooning, and sometimes if I'm going
on a long ride in winter, but I far prefer the open face.

For traffic work, I reckon it's way better.

Zebee

 

I like my full-face for tours and cold Canberra winters. Around town in the
heat of summer, you can't go past an open-face helmet, (they used to call
them 'jet' style). Make sure you've got a good pair of wrap-around sunnies,
and for gawd's sake don't smile when passing through a plague of locusts ...
and watch out for gravel ... and rain drops at over 40kph ... and don't
forget the sun screen ... and you're not anonymous any more. Max street
cred is achieved with a scratched matt black model. No visor. No peak.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:44:59 +1100

Bunnings. Safety glasses.

Mine were a very good investment when I came off the Duke. Big gouge in
the right hand lens.

Zebee
- peak, no visor

 

Im tend tio use a dirt bike helmet around town.. feels more free then my
full face AGV. Combine that with my sunnies (polycarb shatter/scratch
resistant lenses) and it's good. Although i hit some rain the other day
without my sunnies and well.. 40kmh in a 80 zone cos of the rain drove me
insane.

 

Cool...

j

 

Oh no! You'll immediately shoot yourself and get on Rotten.Com!

Worse! You'll look like a courier!

The other big advantage is that it's much much cooler
in summer at low speed / traffic.

The big disadvantage is the reduced sun and insect protection
to your chin and neck ... and I can't find a tinted visor for it ...

-----sharks

 

sounds like a fabriz moment , good a couple of times a year.

 

I've got a tinted visor for my N40---not cheap though--around $45 I think.
Work paid for it---but too hot to have it down while delivering mail at slow
speed---I usually just wear sunnies with the standard visor only used at
night or in rain.


Postman Pat

 

"Zebee Johnstone" wrote

Agreed. I wear a full-face in the winter only.

Theo

 

Off road helmets are very good for town work in the summer,lots of
ventalation,peak for the sun and large view area

 

"They make 'em, Pat said they make 'em ..."

-----sharks

 

Jeez Moike, you were staring at a white Nolan N40 for most of the
8,000km we just did![1]

Cheers
Goaty
1. Also have an N100 flip up like your BMW one.

 

That's what the beard is for ...[1]

Cheers
Goaty
1. Seriously though, can't say that I've had much of a problem with the
1998 N40 I have.

 

Well done Moike. Kind of sums up the whole reason why I ride a bike.

 

That's how you can identify a happy biker... from the bugs in his teeth!

 

I had a half-face in 1974 and then couldn't wait to get my first full-face
in 1976.
I wore nothing but full-faces for the next 25 years until I went for a ride
with Triffid and Boxer and I noticed how much they seemed to be grinning
despite being vurnerable to arse-cancer attacks.
I bought a flip-face but now kick myself for not going the whole hog and
getting a proper half-face.
Vive freedom!
Clem

 

True, true. This goatee isn't quite sufficient though, I'll
have to work on it

-----sharks

 

Yep, but mine is matt[1] black.

Nope, can you imagine a tight arse like me laying out the cash for a BMW
system helmet? My flip front is an el-cheapo HJC (with the HJC sticker
removed)

Moike

[1] no, not that Matt!

 

I'm aware that it might not offer quite the same protection as a full

I once fell of while enthusiastically exiting a gravel car park at
about 10kph, OK so I was not enthusiastic...lets say cautious and
tired. Anyway deep gouges in the front of my helmet told me that I had
just avoided a trip to the dentist, followed by a trip to the plastic
surgeon (and then to the bank to pay for it all).

The torn fabric on my jacket told be I'ld just avoided some real
serious gravel rash on my fore arm, the kind that needs stitches after
a cleanout with a tooth brush.


All that at 10kph...makes you think what damage a little spill can do.
Still, I'm sure you will be OK, teeth grow back soon enough...

tim.