Retro Helmet?

In aus.motorcycles on 15 Feb 2004 17:38:22 -0800

My recollection of early fullface helmets - early 80s - is that the
faceports were small, the lids large and heavy, and the visors were hard
to get, scratched easily, had no intermediate positions and had to be
snapped down.

IN other words... you can wear it, but is it going to be comfortable
enough to bother?

Zebee

 

Dic-head?!

 

My first full-face was bought in 1974, and yes, you described it well.By the
standards of the day, they were the best available. Flimsy visors that had
to be clipped down with press-studs else they ripped off. Letter-box slots
that gave no peripheral vision and required you to lower your head to look
at the instruments. So hot you had to unclip the visor every time you
stopped for a traffic light. So heavy you'd think the shell was made out of
25mm lead-lined fibreglass. They probably killed a few people.

Theo

 

<dinggggggggggg>

 

Ah, so this is _after_ the little-skinny-chinbar era, then?

-----sharks

 

"Mad-Biker.com

errr... "I'm a crap driver" ?

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

nar, a ball joint fell of the steering rack.. pulled me into the the gravel
on the side of the road and into an embank ment, car was on 2 wheels,
luckely it didnt flip... it shattered the tyre, pushed the suspention arm
up, pushed the engine through the bonnet...

I was on me p plates, driving too fast in me new car, prev owner got a dogie
blue slip for it, it was fairly unsafe, fixed it and the mechanic was
surprized about the other tings he found wrong with it, less than a week
after a blue slip...

cheers
www.mad-biker.com

 

With the possible exception of the magic pedals, pretty much
everything in it's size class has all those features.

G

 

(Chris) wrote in

Could be worse. There's a well known make of professional
kitchen, butchery and fishmongers knives called, I kid
you not, "F Dick".

Now I dunno about the rest of you fellers, but I have
issues with the concept of having 7 finest quality
ultra-sharp knives sitting on *my* kitchen bench in
a wooden block marked "DICK". It makes me nervous!

http://www.twinsupply.com/fdick_cutlery/item8808000.html

G

 

and that's why we have a 12 Dick in the knife drawer :_)
along with two boning and three slicing and a 14" steak weapon from the
same company

 

Recently saw a young girl survive a 200+ km/h closing speed head-on in a
late Magna. Highway, dead square, no braking.

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

Yeah, but that's a 30 year old documentary...

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

This linux thing is getting out of hand...

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

you said survive , how is she really ?> that must have been a miracle
?.

 

Some bad injuries (not head), should be OK in time, no limbs lost. We don't
usually hear a lot about 'em after our part's done.

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

I've got a 40 year old car with seat belts, 4 wheel disc brakes, decent handling
and HP and I'd rather be in it than a Barina or a Suzuki Swift in a crash with a
4wd (2 ton vs 1.5ton sounds a better bet than 2 ton vs 800kg.....)

JL

 

<whoosh>

"there's some cars on the market today that don't have those features"

There's budget cars 30 years later that don't have those available as extras
let alone standard. Hell my 86 Daimler Double Six has a few things that my 97
Audi A4 doesn't have standard (fully electric seats for one)

JL

 

Still relies on the nut behind the wheel though, if that's loose then you
are fucked regardless of how "safe" your car is. It's also quite disturbing
how many traffic crashes are still referred to as accidents. Get real for a
moment, how many crashes can be honestly called accidents?

If someone is stupid enough to ram his car into a seperator wall at 120kph
then he really doesn't deserve to survive.

I feel safe enough regardless of what car I drive (or bike I ride for that
matter). I prefer to use my eyes, ears and brain to figure out what's going
on around me rather than driving like a zombie then blaming the car if I
**** up. That's not to say I haven't had a few bingles. The worst one was
on my VF750 when an older guy in a RWD Corolla went through a stop sign less
than thirty feet in front of me. I had my eye on him from further up the
road and had backed off before I got to the intersection anyway but he threw
me by going through the stop sign then stopping across thw lanes of traffic,
as it was I collected his boot at about 40-50kph and was able to walk away.
If I hadn't noticed him earlier I would have hit him around the door pillar
at close to 70kph and it doesn't take Einstein to figure out the likely
outcome of that.
--
Deevo

Geraldton
WA, The Nanny State (® Corks)
http://members.westnet.com.au/mckenzie

 

I figured that
many years ago at 3 am I found a family stacked into a wall just
before a left turn onto a bridge which is now fixed in a Volkswagen
wagon thing (about 8 hours north of Brisbane ( maybe 10)lots of sugar
cane ) , went to help her out and her face was stuck to the dash , next
town was about 30k , took about 12 minutes on the guzzi circa easter
1979 . I will never forget that. I hope you don't have the same problems
..

 

I'll take my chances in my 69 Valiant over a Hyundai any day.


jim