Attempt to color match helmet

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The HJC CS-R2 is their lowest priced full-face helmet, $95 shipped from Helmet House. It is the improved version of the old CS-R1, which was heavier, noiser, less comfortable, and had a cheaper face shield. The CS-R2 probably rates a 2 on a scale of 5.

I have a couple other helmets but was looking for a color match for the bike and this was the closest I could find. Color should never be the primary criteria for picking a helmet, but I'm pleased. It fits like it should, tight yet confortable. It has ventilation ports and fully removable liners.

It's said that practically any helmet is better than no helmet, and a full face helmet provides the most protection of any helmet types. I remember reading a recent article about helmet crashworthiness. In a surprise finding, some of the cheaper helmets were as safe and in some cases safer in blunt tramma hits than the $800 bullet proof helmets. It seems the cheaper helmets suffer more damage but absord more g-forces in the process, while some of the top of the line helmets are so well constructed that they actually transfer more g-forces to the head.

But if I were going racing, I'd get one of the helmets MotoGP racers use, the highest rated one I could get my hands on, price be dammed.