Full or Open Face Helmet?

[Damfino_imp]

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

[Zoodles95_imp]

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.

[HikerToo_imp]

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

[Aussie_imp]

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..

[Lord Popgun]

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.

[CIP57_imp]

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.

[HikerToo_imp]

J Cruise on the CB , fairly close color match

[Pterodactyl_imp]

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.

[Zoodles95_imp]

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.

[Cormanus]

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.