The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today.
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MotoJezek Carlotto
Posts : 41 Join date : 2017-10-12
Subject: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:12 pm
I'm going to buy a new helmet later this year. Currently I have an AGV Rossi Imola 98 K3 and looking to get something ...bold, but not stupid or goofy. I'm a bit of a picky bastard and would like to get an eye catching helmet, but not one solid hi-viz yellow. Here are a few that have caught my eye...
Looks to be a discontinued model Arai Schwantz 95 [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:09 pm
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JohnA GRiSO Capo
Posts : 765 Join date : 2015-01-13 Age : 67
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:20 am
Of course the most important part is to make sure you get a helmet brand that fits you right. Shoei’s seem to work best for me. Being 64 years old, and fairly conservative, the ones you show are a little wild for me. I have a Shoei RF 1200 rumpus in grey and black. It kind of matches my sliver and black 2014 GRiSO.
MotoJezek Carlotto
Posts : 41 Join date : 2017-10-12
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:49 am
Yeah, I'm fairly conservative on colors...but I just like having a bright-ish helmet is a feeble attempt to not visually blend into the background to "cagers". Of course helmet fit is important, but I'm just concerned about what looks good, then I'll go from there.
OldMojo Grignapoco
Posts : 107 Join date : 2018-04-10
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:49 pm
The Tatsuki. No contest.
Because you have an excellent chance of being the only swinging cat at the bike night rolling in on a GRiSO..... AND with a carp on his helmet.
A frigging CARP!
And with the hi-viz blaze on the front, the most suitable for your purpose, methinks.
MotoJezek Carlotto
Posts : 41 Join date : 2017-10-12
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Thu Apr 01, 2021 4:44 pm
It's not the only helmet with a carp! The Leon Haslam has a -yin-yang- carp thing going on... [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
the Tatsuki rep has a dragon, too! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
OldMojo Grignapoco
Posts : 107 Join date : 2018-04-10
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:04 am
All right then. With other carp-festooned helmets swimming around (somebody stop me! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]) It would be wise to hedge your bet with a supplemental dragon. Tatsuki for the win!
It grieves me somewhat that there's no Italian restaurant themed helmet. Perhaps the Holy Mother and a rack of procciuto hams?
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humboldtguzzi Montanarolo
Posts : 21 Join date : 2014-10-22
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:37 am
I have a"long oval" head,and recently bought a "Klim" flip front, with the photosensitive shield,and I love it.
GuzziLooper Tanabuso
Posts : 68 Join date : 2021-02-03 Age : 65
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:37 am
You guys with “normal” heads are so fortunate to have so many choices. With my 65cm unusually-long-oval head I generally get the choice of one or two entry-level helmets in either black or white. Back in the early 2000’s Arai made a 3XL long oval in four different colors, black, white, red, and aluminum. I bought a red one. Ten years later all they offered was aluminum and that’s what I bought. Now I want to buy a new helmet and the don’t even make a long oval one in 3XL. “Try the 2XL” is their advice, but trying to find a dealer who even has one to try on is an exercise in futility.
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Steak Godfather
Posts : 3154 Join date : 2013-05-28 Age : 59
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:42 am
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GuzziLooper Tanabuso
Posts : 68 Join date : 2021-02-03 Age : 65
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:43 am
Yeah, and I used to have a head of hair like that...forty years ago.
Oxpot Squinternotto
Posts : 8 Join date : 2021-05-13
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Thu May 20, 2021 10:57 am
IMO, Bell helmets are knocking it out of the park with their super-stylish lids. I wish I'd bought the Bell Star Carbon Technique RSD when they were available. It would go perfectly with my newly-acquired GRiSO [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
GuzziLooper Tanabuso
Posts : 68 Join date : 2021-02-03 Age : 65
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Thu May 20, 2021 6:15 pm
For what it’s worth, we stopped at the motorcyclecloseouts.com retail store in Smithville, Missouri on our way back to Michigan and I was able to try on (or at least attempt to) about a dozen different 3XL helmets. I was just about to spring for an LS2 carbon fiber model, even though the room in the chin area was a bit scant, when I asked about what they had in a Scorpion helmet. The salesman brought out an R420 in a 3XL...voila, a perfect fit! Sold! The fit is nearly identical to my Arai Signet GT and Profile helmets. It’s a cheapo helmet, and in flat black, but at least it freakin’ fits!
BobW981 Grignapoco
Posts : 160 Join date : 2021-06-12 Age : 67
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:01 pm
MotoJezek wrote:
I'm going to buy a new helmet later this year. Currently I have an AGV Rossi Imola 98 K3 and looking to get something ...bold, but not stupid or goofy. I'm a bit of a picky bastard and would like to get an eye catching helmet, but not one solid hi-viz yellow. Here are a few that have caught my eye...
I love the Hutchy, timeless. As I recall it was very limited edition & supplied exclusively to the Travelling Marshalls at the TT. I made enquiries with Arai about it, but it was never released, even as a 750 edition TT replica. Shame.
I also have the original 2008 Arai TT Centenary replica
Bob
motor-timothy GRiSO Capo
Posts : 523 Join date : 2016-12-20
Subject: Re: The most interesting (graphically) helmets available today. Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:38 pm
Oxpot wrote:
IMO, Bell helmets are knocking it out of the park with their super-stylish lids. I wish I'd bought the Bell Star Carbon Technique RSD when they were available. It would go perfectly with my newly-acquired GRiSO [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
That is a gorgeous helmet!
I like the HJC RPHA 90 Tanisk a lot as well for the black GRiSO's:
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