Full or Open Face Helmet?

[Damfino_imp]

I bought and love the Shoei JCruise...

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:


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...

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:


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:


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:


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:


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.

 

[Tortuga_imp]

I agree with full face all the time. I have sold 1000s of helmets over time.
There was not a season that went by in the 15 years we were in the biss. that we did not lose a customer to no helmet or
to much to drink.
I even offered a free tire to a sport bike guy ( he was kinda of a local leader ) if he would wear a helmet when he rode around
town.

one of those was to me

:dodgy:

and I wear a full face full time

shoei rf1100

one of those was to me

:dodgy:

and I wear a full face full time

shoei rf1100
My pal has this helmet and loves it, especially since it whoops my Arai in the Sharp test website.

I love my Arai but am disappointed in its score. Might buy an AGV soon.

 

[Timpo_imp]

 

[Pterodactyl_imp]

A little leather would be handy for old mate pictured above. He will still look good but will wear a grimace, despite the medication, as they scrub the gravel out of the red, rashy bits. Hope the nurse is pretty.

Cheers
What's the bike?

 

[Zoodles95_imp]

OMG... Even an armored mesh jacket plus gauntlet gloves would largely minimize injury there. I saw a guy on a cruiser yesterday wearing sandals. :huh:

 

[Capo]

While I sport a Davida Jet or HJC pudding bowl for short runs along the beach and such during the summer, I mostly ride full face- Arai Corsair or Schuberth flip. After my buddy's 65 MPH tumble on his Thruxton last week (he's OK, shattered wrist and knee) and seeing the helmet, I'm fully convinced full face is the only answer. Pic:

 

[Elipten_imp]

Oh my that is going to hurt! I always wear a jacket and gloves with the helmet. Have always used a full face helmet. Just bought a Schuberth flip as a test.


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[emptysea]

It's all about playing the odds, right? Sometimes, you may fare better in a crash with an open-face, or half, or NO helmet, but the odds are that you will be better off MOST of the time in a full-face helmet. I know guys that don't wear their seatbelt because they read about someone who would have died had he been wearing one. Same (pseudo) logic. Don't wear a seatbelt, if that makes you comfortable. Don't wear a helmet, or wear an open face helmet, if that makes you comfortable. Just don't try to tell me that you're safer in those choices. Odds are that you're not.

 

[HikerToo_imp]

Given a choice, if you were about to be thrown out onto the road at 50 MPH, and someone asked, with or without a helmet, would anyone in their right mind, choose no helmet?

 

[Tortuga_imp]

Actually, I'm a short step away from buying an open face, just for a laugh.

I've always worn full face Arai's and have 4 now. I just fancy the open face for a quick trip round the block or to the shops.

In reality that's stupid as an accident could happen anywhere and most happen close to ones home where their guard is down.

I think it's a question of 'feel safe, nail it' and conversely 'feel vulnerable, pootle along'.

Also a hear peripheral vision is WAY better on an open face (piss pot) helmet.

I just don't know what to do. So many choices, which oil, open or full helmet, screen or naked, 10-30w or 10-40w oil?


I think I'll sell it and take up golf!

J Cruise on the CB , fairly close color match

Wow, you look like a badass 'enforcer' about to carry out a hit on some whacko!

When I tried on an open face helmet my friend said my head looked like a bowling bowl.:huh:

 

[Jhonda_imp]

I agree with flynbulldog. Helmets are for protecting your head/face. Full coverage, always.