Who would wear a flip front helmet?
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king fat as fI swear the best thing ever found on the Internet is Bass GT3's replies on pistonheads. Cracks me up!!
I have a hjc flip helmet. It's even white! I'm quite skinny unfortunately, if I was overweight it wouldn't look so ridiculously massive on my shoulders. It's absolutely brilliant to be fair, I love riding with the front up, but could never ride with an open face as when your over 60mph on my bike it gets too much. Its brilliant when touring, slowly rolling through towns it's much nicer to have an open face. It's also as good as any full face I've used at noise suppression. It's great.
Having said that they're not "cool", sometimes that can matter which is fine. I'd like a new helmet and will probably go for a full face but will hang onto the flip for touring. I wanted to love the Shark Evo mentioned earlier but when I looked it's a ghastly helmet. It really felt naff and is ridiculously wide. Perhaps the widest helmet I've ever seen.
Croyde. I'd like to try the Roof, how do you find it and what's the fit like. Also where did you buy it?
I have a hjc flip helmet. It's even white! I'm quite skinny unfortunately, if I was overweight it wouldn't look so ridiculously massive on my shoulders. It's absolutely brilliant to be fair, I love riding with the front up, but could never ride with an open face as when your over 60mph on my bike it gets too much. Its brilliant when touring, slowly rolling through towns it's much nicer to have an open face. It's also as good as any full face I've used at noise suppression. It's great.
Having said that they're not "cool", sometimes that can matter which is fine. I'd like a new helmet and will probably go for a full face but will hang onto the flip for touring. I wanted to love the Shark Evo mentioned earlier but when I looked it's a ghastly helmet. It really felt naff and is ridiculously wide. Perhaps the widest helmet I've ever seen.
Croyde. I'd like to try the Roof, how do you find it and what's the fit like. Also where did you buy it?
Croyde I have one of those. It officially makes you cool, so jolly well done. 
Rufus, the fit is smallish and particularly so in profile - your nose may touch the visor if you get it wrong. You can try / buy from gorgeous bikes in London. I got mine from Motoblouz.
Rufus, the fit is smallish and particularly so in profile - your nose may touch the visor if you get it wrong. You can try / buy from gorgeous bikes in London. I got mine from Motoblouz.
Riff Raff said:
bogie said:
No need for a racer to use a flip up, after all, why wear a heavier helmet for no benefit to racing ? you sure will feel that extra 500g on your neck at 150mph + 
My Schuberth C3 Pro is lighter than most full face jobs. 
yeah, everything is relative and they are light for a flip up. My Evo 3 is 1750g and Race-R is 1250g,
C3 is in the middle, so not too heavy considering the mech, sun visor etc
bass gt3 said:
My God, you don't half talk some twaddle!!!
Whether you choose to accept the fundamental laws of physics doesn't mean they cease to exist. And whether you realise that to take a turn requires the initial counter steering input is academic, as it does.
Just because it's something you do which you do not understand how you do it doesn't mean it's not something you don't need to do.
I could set up a very VERY simple exercise to demonstrate it but I suspect you're so entrenched in you ignorance even the bleedin' obvious wouldn't convince you.
Steering with your knees.... priceless
Nope I'm completely entrenched. Been riding the fastest bike I could lay my spare money on from the age of 14, and I'm now the wrong side of fifty. No gaps in nearly forty years of bike ownership. I don't need to change. If I do it without thinking, there's no need to think about it now. I'm more entrenched than a first world war portaloo.Whether you choose to accept the fundamental laws of physics doesn't mean they cease to exist. And whether you realise that to take a turn requires the initial counter steering input is academic, as it does.
Just because it's something you do which you do not understand how you do it doesn't mean it's not something you don't need to do.
I could set up a very VERY simple exercise to demonstrate it but I suspect you're so entrenched in you ignorance even the bleedin' obvious wouldn't convince you.
Steering with your knees.... priceless
My ignorance has become my friend. Its saved me in many potential accidents and I trust it. You on the other hand are a slightly grumpy overweight middle aged housewife from hull called Doreen whos husband is having an affair, and therefore she spends all her spare time on the internet posting on biker banter, hoping to find new love.
Nothing to add other than this is the strangest helmet I've ever seen...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/FRONT-MOTORCYCLE-HELMET-MO...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/FRONT-MOTORCYCLE-HELMET-MO...
Cheers Castex.
Gorgeous Bikes is up the road from me but I've seen them on line too.
For anyone interested it is a Roof Desmo. About the same weight in feel as my Arai and since selling my Triumph and suddenly getting a Vespa 300, I use it as an open face far more.
As to those arguing about steering, I use my whole body and especially my feet. Shifting weight via your foot pegs helps with the fluidity of motion.
Hence I have to ride my Vespa with my feet sitting just on the edge of the foot boards not tucked up out of the wind in front of me
ETA The chin piece on the Desmo lifts up over and sits at the rear of the helmet, hence it isn't top heavy in open mode.
Gorgeous Bikes is up the road from me but I've seen them on line too.
For anyone interested it is a Roof Desmo. About the same weight in feel as my Arai and since selling my Triumph and suddenly getting a Vespa 300, I use it as an open face far more.
As to those arguing about steering, I use my whole body and especially my feet. Shifting weight via your foot pegs helps with the fluidity of motion.
Hence I have to ride my Vespa with my feet sitting just on the edge of the foot boards not tucked up out of the wind in front of me
ETA The chin piece on the Desmo lifts up over and sits at the rear of the helmet, hence it isn't top heavy in open mode.
Edited by croyde on Tuesday 4th August 09:51
SpunkyGlory said:
Nothing to add other than this is the strangest helmet I've ever seen...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/FRONT-MOTORCYCLE-HELMET-MO...
Huh all I'm seeing is a picture of a woman with her eyes on upside down?http://www.amazon.co.uk/FRONT-MOTORCYCLE-HELMET-MO...
Another C3 owner here and I wouldn't go back to a non flip-fronted lid again.
Didn't Schumacher use a flip fronted Schuberth when he had a go at bike racing?
- I don't need to take my glasses off in order to get my lid on/off - I've broken glasses before when they'd slid off my seat while putting my helmet on
- Don't take it off to pay in a petrol station
- Flip the front up for some air when stopped at traffic lights in hot weather.
- Much easier and more polite to talk to someone with the front flipped up
- If commuting I flip it up to ride through security gates
Didn't Schumacher use a flip fronted Schuberth when he had a go at bike racing?
julian64 said:
Are flip fronts any noisier than normal?
Yes and no. The biggest source of noise on a helmet is usually the edges of the visor, so any additional seams/protuberances/etc usually generate more noise. However just like standard helmets some are noisy and some are quiet. I suspect the quietest helmet on the market would be a full face, but there are some well designed flips that are quieter than most full faces.My flip front C3 at 70mph is about as noisy as my previous full face Raid was at about 50mph.
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