Since I bought my first helmet in 1996 I’ve found Arai to be really comfortable, as I have most of the other top-end brands.

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). There are also different types of plastic lids– some use polycarbonate, which is fairly strong, while others can be snapped if they’re abused enough. The Box helmet here – like many other budget lids – is made of plastic, while the Arai is composite fibre and resin. But look inside the helmet’s shell, behind the liner, to see how effective those vents are likely to be; some cheaper lids might look like they have lots of vents, but they sometimes don’t actually do anything.

com Limited is an Appointed Representative of Compare The Market Limited who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. I’d say the Shoei has had about 100,000 miles on it, while the MT is 15,000 to 20,000 – but it has been on my head while I’m not riding, so use time is still very high; most people aren’t wearing their helmet for seven or eight hours a day, five days a week. On the drafty topic of ventilation the Leopard Flip Up Front Hemet has fully adjustable air intake vents on the front, on the crown and exhaust ports on the rear.

YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. You might not know until you need to use it, but it can show up quickly on some – a few HJCs for instance have a catch screwed in that creates a stress point for the degradation to show itself much more quickly. Arai makes its outer shells to be extremely strong, the idea being that an impact force is spread over a larger area, before being dissipated by a soft inner liner.Exhaust ports can help draw the air away, and you need to be able to use the vents easily with gloves on. But Arai refuses to fit a drop-down shield as it believes it compromises on safety by creating a gap between the outer and inner shell, and introducing more holes for the operating mechanism.

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