Motorcycle Helmets Right [Tips and Tricks]
When it comes to motorcycle helmets, many riders get all wrapped around the axle discussions helmet law. We are smart enough not wading into the mess, but our view is that no matter what the law says you must protect your coconut, which means wearing a helmet.
Full face
- Provide the best protection
- The quietest design
- Integrated face mask to protect the eyes
- Balance: the expensive, limited sensory input
- Heavier design means more neck fatigue
HYBRID
- A combination of full-face and off-road helmet; also known as "double movement" helmet
- For both onshore and off-road use
- Wider peripheral vision and spatial wear goggles optional
- A longer chin bar, and add visor, like cross-country helmet
- Balance: the potential problem of wind noise or visor
Open face
- Also known as the 3/4 (three quarters) Helmet
- Head protection and freedom of acceptable combinations
- Add: write your contact element
- Less:, you can contact element (you can, if you want to add a mask)
Off-road or MOTOCROSS
- Open face port allows you to wear goggles to protect the eyes from dust
- Rollout mouth / jaw protection
- Long sun shade and deflected branches
- Balance: the sun catch the wind at higher speeds
Modular
- Also known as "flip-style" helmet
- Piano bar pivot, so open face configuration
- Secure Removable chin bar has not been widely studied
- Some hybrids are both full-time and full-featured open-face
- Popular motorcycle police and passengers, to facilitate conversations, snacking
Half helmet
- Cool, light weight, low price
- The minimum legal cover to check your local laws
- Balance: the low security level; there are a lot of fake and shoddy helmets provide unacceptably low protection on the market
