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michael1703
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Nitro are good for me, Aeroblade FF something has been good to me, i crashed quite heavily at lydden and mine stood up.... and brands and snetterton and....
Thought I would throw my 2 peneth in as I have nowt better to do, My latest helmet is a BMW System 5 flip up lid real nice fit, good quality, think it is the lightest flip up you can buy apart from its predecessor the system 6 which is to expensive for my blood, must admit I did buy mine second-hand but as in unused condition £85 there abouts, BARGIN. These helmets have a good write up review check em out nothing to loose, ride safe guys. 
Shox Dr
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrh I hate the thought someone could impinge, on my time on the bike. The wife wanted two radio, I think we got 10 miles before I turned it off. Im not a big talker in the car, as I like to concentrate on the job in hand. More so on a bike, plus I like the solitude, so to speak
chunkolini
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Blue tooth? No thanks.
I am off today to have a look at crash hats, will report back.
Chunko'.
I am off today to have a look at crash hats, will report back.
Chunko'.
pedrobedro
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I tried a Caberg and they are noisy, deafened me after half an hour. My Premier helmet cost just under £100 and is a composite shell with ACU approval and my previous helmet was a Lazer, same specification both chosen on fit. You can pay £40 up to £100 for a visor for a helmet so look closely at that although I've never had to replace one through damage.
graffian
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Got a nice Perkins diesel up front, so if passengers want to talk they are talking to themselves.
I still have a cheap white lid open face that was chucked in when I bought a B40, in 1975. I Just flogged my Type 32 simpson on ebay[seems it was a collectors item] and bought a nice black open face Roof. Never a fan of full face lids.
chunkolini
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went there today, bloody rubish, the website lists about six manufacturers of helmets, there were a few shark and a load of 50 quid hats, Shark S900 looks promising, willgo out in the week to another local ripoff joint.
Chunko'.
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I used to use an open face lid occaisionally, until I visited a friend in hospital who hit the side of a van that turned in front of him.
Pushed the frame of his glasses into his face and smashed nose, cheekbones and jaw
took months to rebuild/repair.Binned the open face as soon as I got home!
chunkolini
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Robotstar, yep, I always wore open faced lids until junior brother turned from one of his many trips up the road with the front of his full faced lid chamfered off. New full face lid for me the next day.
Chunko'.
Chunko'.
I've had a number of occasions to be glad of a full face, including a SuperDream/Mercedes interface which left me with a serious concussion.
I still wear an open face on the 'Wing (although hail-stones can sting a fair bit!) or on the XS650. Got a nice one for £40 from Dave Death the other weekend
Still got a full face Shoei for other bikes. I wouldn't normally spend that much, but it was a present. Nice lid, good fit, some nice touches.
I still wear an open face on the 'Wing (although hail-stones can sting a fair bit!) or on the XS650. Got a nice one for £40 from Dave Death the other weekend
Still got a full face Shoei for other bikes. I wouldn't normally spend that much, but it was a present. Nice lid, good fit, some nice touches.
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Even applies to other "bike wear" , got cut up by a lorry and dropped bike footrest onto riding boot, ground 1" of heel off boot by the time I had stopped, hate to think what my foot would have been like if I had been wearing trainers like some of the plonkers I see about.
madkayaker
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it anoys me when i see lads riding around with no gloves on
mike os
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should be listed as ppe & required like seatbelts.
lid, boots, gloves, leathers or modern equivemant for rider and pillion, to a minimum standard.
I know it sucks when its hot, but having seen the concequences too many times to remember I would never ride without.
lid, boots, gloves, leathers or modern equivemant for rider and pillion, to a minimum standard.
I know it sucks when its hot, but having seen the concequences too many times to remember I would never ride without.
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I saw an idiot on a big KTM the other wearing sandals shorts and tee shirt.
makes we want to get out the wire brush.
Chunko'.
makes we want to get out the wire brush.
Chunko'.
Yes it makes me wince too, but please lets not ASK for more legislation. We have enough crap thrown at us without adding to it.
It will start off with good intentions, then some clothing manufacturers will get involved, and things will have to be marked like the acu stamps for lids.
Itll end up being a self certification for the larger makers (like the bs stamp for lids...) and suddenly the police will be nicking people for wearing para boots on a bike because they dont have the right CE stamp visible even though theyre probably one of the best ankle protected strong boots on the market, and we'll all have to go out and buy crappy fabric based jackets and give up on the leather we've been wearing for years because its not crash tested and marked as such and most people wont be able to afford a new tested leather, even though the testing will be a joke anyway. The likes of cissbury leathers own products will go out of business because they cant afford the entry price to the certification club.
Then feature creep it because that always happens, now everyones making certified clothing then it'd be a good idea to push it that bit further in the minds of non biking people, have mandatory dayglo reflective patches sew on etc. All the certified manufacturers wont give a poo and just incorporate it and we will have no freedom to resist looking like a teletubby every time we don a jacket,in a bid to compensate for car drivers who were looking the wrong way to start with and wouldnt have seen us if we'd been riding a elephant with a floro lighting rig.
Id much rather stick with personal freedom of choice rather than handing control to some clueless civil servants and a load of manufacturers serving their own interests. And if mr shorts and flipflops fall off, we can all have a good laugh at him, because he's only going to hurt himself. Its called natural selection.
It will start off with good intentions, then some clothing manufacturers will get involved, and things will have to be marked like the acu stamps for lids.
Itll end up being a self certification for the larger makers (like the bs stamp for lids...) and suddenly the police will be nicking people for wearing para boots on a bike because they dont have the right CE stamp visible even though theyre probably one of the best ankle protected strong boots on the market, and we'll all have to go out and buy crappy fabric based jackets and give up on the leather we've been wearing for years because its not crash tested and marked as such and most people wont be able to afford a new tested leather, even though the testing will be a joke anyway. The likes of cissbury leathers own products will go out of business because they cant afford the entry price to the certification club.
Then feature creep it because that always happens, now everyones making certified clothing then it'd be a good idea to push it that bit further in the minds of non biking people, have mandatory dayglo reflective patches sew on etc. All the certified manufacturers wont give a poo and just incorporate it and we will have no freedom to resist looking like a teletubby every time we don a jacket,in a bid to compensate for car drivers who were looking the wrong way to start with and wouldnt have seen us if we'd been riding a elephant with a floro lighting rig.
Id much rather stick with personal freedom of choice rather than handing control to some clueless civil servants and a load of manufacturers serving their own interests. And if mr shorts and flipflops fall off, we can all have a good laugh at him, because he's only going to hurt himself. Its called natural selection.
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madkayaker
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But silly supermarket trolley driving Joe public would only do it once
its hard not to laugh a lot with that and that would be bad as I'm invigilating an exam
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It is always god when a bit of consciousnss starts off a bit of ranting.
Chunko'.
Chunko'.
