What type of helmet do you wear?

[guppstah]

I hope this one hasn't been done before, I did do a search and didn't find anything.
With a bit of participation it could be very interesting to see what type of helmet is most popular with the Vespa community.

I have two helmets, a matt black V-Can open face and a gloss black Craft RX10 Barracuda "Streetfighter" style helmet, which one I wear depends a lot on weather, mood and distance I am travelling.
I wear my open face with a Bandero mask, which keeps the bugs out of my mouth, but unfortunately not my eyes, and I think goggles look naff.

Over to you!

Gaz

[rods]

I currently wear an open face helmet of which i have two, one matt white with a black stripes through the middle and one matt black with a tan stripes through the middle, but do you know what i can remember what flavour they are!!! It will come to me though. Im als thinking of getting a full face as it offers a bit more protection but as yet my mind is still not made up..........and do you know what i cant think what

[rods]

I've got it now they are both Nolan

[twotone]

I've got two helmets, both Arai. One is an open face, with a little peak on the front. Freeway it's called and the other is a full face. Both gloss black.

[dunworking]

I currently have a matching pair of cream with red stripe open face peaked Modena's, for when my daughters with me and a silver with red/black stripe open face Dainese D Jet with visor for windy/cold days.

I am getting reservations about my daughter using an open face though and may have to invest in a pair of decent full face ones shortly

[Spence]

There is a thread on this already running, on page three of this section:

vespa.proboards31.com/index.cgi?board=stuff&action=display&thread=1100340902

However, I have a black Nitro full-face and a black Caberg Downtown (open-face but with full-face visor) for the PX, and a smoke/silver Cromwell Hurricane for the Sprint.

If you don't like the look of goggles with your open face, but don't want to end up with glaucoma, I can recommend those cyclist-type wraparound clear lens glasses.

If you're buying a new helmet, go to our homepage at www.vespa.org.uk and click on the designerhelmets.com logo on the right hand side.

[Big Al]

I've got a matt black Momo Design Fighter open-face (hides his poser face in shame) but it matches my bike!

spence said:

If you don't like the look of goggles with your open face, but don't want to end up with glaucoma, I can recommend those cyclist-type wraparound clear lens glasses.

I quite agree, although my Dad has found an interesting alternative which he uses when out and about in his wee kit-car fitted with aero screens (i.e. zero weather protection) - DeWalt safety glasses! Huge wrap-arounds giving brilliant wind protection, designed to withstand bits of stone and drill-bit (so should handle pretty much anything flying up from the road), lightly tinted but not so much that the long arm of the law should want to discuss it with you, and actually rather cool looking. Just got my own pair off eBay for £2.70, so can't really complain about the price either.

[Lucia]

I've just been looking at these as well...bargain!

www.screwfix.com/search.do;jsessionid=PN0S31LRRQO1ICSTHZPCFFA?_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=eye+protection&x=10&y=14#

[Feed Your Head]

White Nolan full face helmet for winter and rainy days. Silver/charcoal vespa open face for all other days.

[Lan]

admin said:

I've just been looking at these as well...bargain!

www.screwfix.com/search.do;jsessionid=PN0S31LRRQO1ICSTHZPCFFA?_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=eye+protection&x=10&y=14#

Just bought a pair hopefully theyll be better than my current shades with my open face helmet where wen i reach around 65 i cant see due to my eyes watering

[guppstah]

I like the sound of the safety glasses idea, especially at £8.99

Sorry Spence, I did search for "helmet" and that thread didn't show up, and its got a poll too.

[guppstah]

So nobody has stick on ears / tails or mohicans then? haha

[Big Al]

Was considering attaching a pair of horns...

[alps]

got a vespa open face but it makes my head look like a football and the sides finish halfway across the ears. simo seen the new style at the liverpool ride out and is raveing about them has anybody any info on these?

[Spence]

Ray, it's not your helmet that makes your head look like a football. It's your head makes your head look like a football.

[Feed Your Head]

forgot to add that i got some googles that go with my vespa helmet...but only wear them on my eyes if i get caught out weatherwise without my full face helmet. normally wear a nice pair of Bollé shades.

[alps]

;D ;D cheers spence im havin a bad week in work and you have just cheered me up ;D ;D

[guppstah]

Talking of football heads, I have a huge gead, my Craft Rx10 is an XL and it takes me 5 mins to squeeze it on, and longer to get it off, great when on really comfy

[Lucia]

Mine's a black full face somethingorother, and also got a cute cream Modena with red stripe and visor. Would love a Davida, but just can't decide which colour...

[Devo McDuff]

A cream and sky blue Modena with visor as recommended by the folks on here. Very happy with it.

Have a soft top open face Vespa helmet too, don't really like that ... people call me Chips

Much better scootering with a visor!

Fancy getting a Davida as well at some point, they have some cool stuff.

[Lan]

i got them dewalt shades lu posted there really good and after 50mph i cant still see where im going which is always a bonus

[stevo]

hi can any one help I've got a Davida helmet but it just does not seem right for my head(ears actually) I'm trying to buy a white arai freeway size large but they stopped doing a white helmet last year, I've tried surfing the net but no joy ,so i was wondering if your local shop has one. hope you can help,cheers

[skrappey]

Mines grey and covered in dead bugs. Arai rings a bell. The front lifts up as well.
Wouldn't wear my open face (red/white with a stripe or two ) on anything that will do above 30, except in exceptionally hot weather and only to the shop.

[Robjack]

I also have a head like a beestung arse, and found it difficult to get a helmet to fit properly. Eventually got a Demon helmet from Bill Smiths in Chester which is a flip front, ideal for me as I wear glasses and don't have to keep taking them off to put the thing on. It wasn't too expensive, but most importantly, it fits well. Better to wear a cheap helmet that fits than a dear one that doesn't.
Incidentally, the deterioration in my eyes coincided with my wearing a helmet with a constantly open (i.e knackered) visor. Could be a coincidence, but maybe not.
I don't want to get all Keith Lard, but the thought of wearing an open face helmet with no eye protection horrifies me now. Maybe I'm just getting old. You only get one pair of eyes, look after them.

[Devo McDuff]

Keith Lard ;D I've got a mate from Bolton who's Dad is called Keith and is also the spit of him, he takes some stick for it!

[Robjack]

Woof! ;D

[Spence]

Rob, you're right what you say about not wearing protection being bad for your eyes.

I once got hit on the nose by a stone chip, which hurt like a b*st**d, but thanked my lucky stars it didn't get me in the eye. Also, I believe constant wind in the eyes can result in glaucoma. Ever had that test at the opticians where they blast you in the eye with a jet of air? Testing for glaucoma.

[mark]

I wear a Modena but i wear glasses and the wind can sometimes get behind my glasses and irritate my eyes . funny though my prescription sunglasses must be a different shape they arnt as bad . the joys of old age. must get a new helmet

[scruff]

i got me a full face arai for the protection it gives, and also for the sunny bits we sometimes get i have an old everoak, with a flip down visor, utterley brilliant and so comfortable, and no flies in the eyes.