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RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Damfino_imp - 04-09-2014
I bought and love the Shoei JCruise...
![[Image: 3b8fea376c491860c48150b5566add60.jpg]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/201404/3b8fea376c491860c48150b5566add60.jpg)
[url=http://www.shoei-helmets.com/Helmet.aspx?J-Cruise&h=23&t=1]http://www.shoei-helmets.com/Helmet.aspx...e&h=23&t=1
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Zoodles95_imp - 04-09-2014
I ride a vintage 1981 CB 750 Custom and I wear a full face helmet. I think this image kind of sums up my thinking:
[url=http://zoodles95.smugmug.com/Other/Motorcycle/26452473_9LTMf7#!i=2638586833&k=jHZkCw8&lb=1&s=A]
I did long haul trucking for awhile and would come south to deliver goods from Canada to the U.S. It always amazed me how many motorcyclists I saw sans helmets.
This is a dangerous hobby/sport/lifestyle/obsession etc so I try to mitigate the risks where I can. Using a full face helmet is a no brainer for me. However, I respect other's choices.
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - HikerToo_imp - 04-09-2014
(04-09-2014, 11:10 AM)Damfino_imp Wrote: I bought and love the Shoei JCruise...
http://www.shoei-helmets.com/Helmet.aspx...e&h=23&t=1
JCruise is nice, its my warm weather helmet( in red), and I have the GT-Air for cooler weather.( in silver)
[url=http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/shoei-gt-air-helmet]http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/shoei-gt-air-helmet
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Aussie_imp - 04-09-2014
I've got so used to wearing a full face that I don't really think about it. I do like the look of the JCruise for warmer weather around town riding..
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Lord Popgun - 04-11-2014
(04-09-2014, 11:10 AM)Damfino_imp Wrote: I bought and love the Shoei JCruise...
[url=http://www.shoei-helmets.com/Helmet.aspx?J-Cruise&h=23&t=1]http://www.shoei-helmets.com/Helmet.aspx...e&h=23&t=1
Wow, that looks like a fighter pilot helmet.
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - CIP57_imp - 04-11-2014
(04-09-2014, 04:29 PM)Zoodles95_imp Wrote: I ride a vintage 1981 CB 750 Custom and I wear a full face helmet. I think this image kind of sums up my thinking:
[url=http://zoodles95.smugmug.com/Other/Motorcycle/26452473_9LTMf7#!i=2638586833&k=jHZkCw8&lb=1&s=A]
I did long haul trucking for awhile and would come south to deliver goods from Canada to the U.S. It always amazed me how many motorcyclists I saw sans helmets.
This is a dangerous hobby/sport/lifestyle/obsession etc so I try to mitigate the risks where I can. Using a full face helmet is a no brainer for me. However, I respect other's choices.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - HikerToo_imp - 04-11-2014
J Cruise on the CB , fairly close color match
![[Image: 4f9f2ce0dcaed7ce5a8558312e0d24ff.JPG]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/201404/4f9f2ce0dcaed7ce5a8558312e0d24ff.JPG)
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Pterodactyl_imp - 04-11-2014
(04-11-2014, 06:36 AM)CIP57_imp Wrote:(04-09-2014, 04:29 PM)Zoodles95_imp Wrote: I ride a vintage 1981 CB 750 Custom and I wear a full face helmet. I think this image kind of sums up my thinking:
[url=http://zoodles95.smugmug.com/Other/Motorcycle/26452473_9LTMf7#!i=2638586833&k=jHZkCw8&lb=1&s=A]
I did long haul trucking for awhile and would come south to deliver goods from Canada to the U.S. It always amazed me how many motorcyclists I saw sans helmets.
This is a dangerous hobby/sport/lifestyle/obsession etc so I try to mitigate the risks where I can. Using a full face helmet is a no brainer for me. However, I respect other's choices.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
I agree, so full face for me. It's in the lap of the Gods though. Read this, it's real:
Quote:“Out of interest,” Dr Deborah said as she fussed with various tubes and bags full of liquid hanging above me. “Were you wearing a full-face or an open-face helmet?”
“Open-face.”
“It’s probably what saved your spine. A full-face with the chin-piece would have caused a greater transferral of the impact force to that area.”
I felt a vague vindication, but I was too busy still processing the whole broken neck thing to high-five her.
“So a full-face would have killed me?”
“Impossible to say. In this instance it might have. Every impact is different. Sometimes helmets help, sometimes they exacerbate the injury.”
“What if I had not been wearing one at all?”
She smiled.
(Credit to Boris Mikhailovic)
Cheers.
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Zoodles95_imp - 04-11-2014
(04-11-2014, 06:36 AM)CIP57_imp Wrote:(04-09-2014, 04:29 PM)Zoodles95_imp Wrote: I ride a vintage 1981 CB 750 Custom and I wear a full face helmet. I think this image kind of sums up my thinking:
[url=http://zoodles95.smugmug.com/Other/Motorcycle/26452473_9LTMf7#!i=2638586833&k=jHZkCw8&lb=1&s=A]
I did long haul trucking for awhile and would come south to deliver goods from Canada to the U.S. It always amazed me how many motorcyclists I saw sans helmets.
This is a dangerous hobby/sport/lifestyle/obsession etc so I try to mitigate the risks where I can. Using a full face helmet is a no brainer for me. However, I respect other's choices.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
And that 19.4% is just the right side of your chin. Don't forget to add the 15.2% for the left side of the chin.
RE: Full or Open Face Helmet? - Cormanus - 04-11-2014
(04-11-2014, 08:32 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote:(04-11-2014, 06:36 AM)CIP57_imp Wrote:(04-09-2014, 04:29 PM)Zoodles95_imp Wrote: I ride a vintage 1981 CB 750 Custom and I wear a full face helmet. I think this image kind of sums up my thinking:
[url=http://zoodles95.smugmug.com/Other/Motorcycle/26452473_9LTMf7#!i=2638586833&k=jHZkCw8&lb=1&s=A]
I did long haul trucking for awhile and would come south to deliver goods from Canada to the U.S. It always amazed me how many motorcyclists I saw sans helmets.
This is a dangerous hobby/sport/lifestyle/obsession etc so I try to mitigate the risks where I can. Using a full face helmet is a no brainer for me. However, I respect other's choices.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
That 19.4 kind of stands out as does your chin.
I agree, so full face for me. It's in the lap of the Gods though. Read this, it's real:
Quote:“Out of interest,” Dr Deborah said as she fussed with various tubes and bags full of liquid hanging above me. “Were you wearing a full-face or an open-face helmet?”
“Open-face.”
“It’s probably what saved your spine. A full-face with the chin-piece would have caused a greater transferral of the impact force to that area.”
I felt a vague vindication, but I was too busy still processing the whole broken neck thing to high-five her.
“So a full-face would have killed me?”
“Impossible to say. In this instance it might have. Every impact is different. Sometimes helmets help, sometimes they exacerbate the injury.”
“What if I had not been wearing one at all?”
She smiled.
(Credit to Boris Mikhailovic)
Cheers.
I don't want to alarm you, Bruce, but when God made man she was only testing.
