Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

that is such a great picture

Got a Davida Jet too, find it a bit uncomfortable with the plugs I'v got in my ears just now though. It's a solid as fuck helmet and quiet like BlueQuinn says.
Also got a cheap full face from Hein Gericke, a Takai I think. It's alright, really only bought it coz it came with a black visor and I like looking like a bad ass, ha!
Also got an old motocross lid that I've taken the peak off of and painted matt black. Used to have a supermoto you see.

+1 for Davida Jet. I know they're safer, but full face helmets make me feel claustrophobic. I used to have a Schuberth J1, which is kind of half and half, with a funky chin bar like a US Football helmet. It was awesome quality and with the tinted visor down you could pretend to be Judge Dredd.

Open face helmets need to come with a warning sticker though. At 70 mph, bumble bees really fucking hurt!

Don't crash.

Have you chaps ridden without a helmet?

i would like to try it in a car park to get the experience of the sound my bike makes. nothing high speed just 25mph max. sainsburys car park tomorrow evening i think for me :-)

Don't crash.

Have you chaps ridden without a helmet?

Not on the road... But offroad a few times (I tend to wear helmets because I will rag the shit out of any bike i am given, within reason...)

I like hearing the engine more... thats the only thing im not looking forward to is not being able to hear my engine properly through a nice big fullface helmet..

CBT on sunday :D

+1 for Davida Jet. I know they're safer, but full face helmets make me feel claustrophobic. I used to have a Schuberth J1, which is kind of half and half, with a funky chin bar like a US Football helmet. It was awesome quality and with the tinted visor down you could pretend to be Judge Dredd.

Open face helmets need to come with a warning sticker though. At 70 mph, bumble bees really fucking hurt!

And rain is the death. 70mph hour rain to the lips, enough top make you greet.

Don't crash.

Have you chaps ridden without a helmet?

A little bit. I used to work in a retail park and at lunchtime would ride from the end I worked at to the other end to get food etc.
Nice feeling, free and airy and makes you feel like a bad ass but I always thought my bike sounded shit when I did it. Need a helmet to cut out the horrible whitish mechanical noise and let you appreciate your exhaust.

Not on the road... But offroad a few times (I tend to wear helmets because I will rag the shit out of any bike i am given, within reason...)

I like hearing the engine more... thats the only thing im not looking forward to is not being able to hear my engine properly through a nice big fullface helmet..

CBT on sunday :D

I can hear the engine 10 times better when wearing my full face and crosser lid than when wearing my Davida.

thinking about it if i wear my everoak corker my ears wont be covered (by much)

I've ridden without a helmet on the roads in Malaysia a couple of times in the past... wearing shorts and flip flops... the feeling of freedom does not outweigh the reality that if anything goes wrong you are basically fuckd. Will never forget seeing an accident when I was younger where the guys helmet had come off and, to be blunt, his brains were all over the floor.

After having come off over the winter at relatively low speeds (wearing a full face) and the first thing that hit the ground was my face, I think full faces are a pretty good idea. Would've been a broken jaw, broken face if I'd been wearing an open helmet.

That Corker helmet will be so illegal nowadays. I expect it's a bit useless as a helmet too.
But you'd look so good in it drifting a Jaguar D type round Copse corner.

i thought the corkers were road legal if they have a british kite mark inside. fair enough they wont offer as much protection as a modern helmet but they used to work when people used to crash right? i wore it a few times on my honda 125 and lots when i had a vespa and honda camino :-)

i have some faith and trust in corkers.

I have an Arai Schwantz Rep, Arai Phil Read Rep, a Nolan flip front, Nolan open face touring helmet, a Premier carbon open face which weighs nothing, Simpson Bandit, and a load of completely illegal helmets that i use on my Chop such as German helmet and old TT stly leather one.

The Arais shit on everything else in terms of comfort, noise and feeling safe - i tend to use open face/flip round town, but always the Arais on the motorway/Fast rides.

Flip fronts are great for town, as you dont have to take your helmet off going into shopd.

does anybody have their (carbon) helmet or leathers insured i heard somewhere that its possible. just engine searched and it is available. seems to make sense if you are buying higher end and at shop prices.

this is interesting.

YouTube - MotoUSA Schuberth C3 Flip-Up Helmet factory

My bike insurance covers the kit as well.

Shoei for me (Arais don't fit my head).

Curiously I've only ever hit my head twice in accidents, once quite hard and once a very glancing blow. The first would've definitely killed me, the second just given me a sore head, most likely. I actually LIKE full face helmets, I don't like too much wind noise / bugs / streaming eyes.

Still ridden without helmets plenty in Greece and Italy though....it would be a bit hypocritical not to seeing as I've hit 60 odd on the bicycle going down mountains in France and Italy without one!

I'm insured through Carole Nash and I pay a couple of quid more for all my kit to be covered as well. I think it's worth it, when I parked my old guzzi in the side of a plumbers van and skidded down Old St on my back, I was basically fine, but the motorbike cop who showed up before the ambulance told me to bin everything I was wearing and replace it all.
If you've crashed in some kit, unless you're some kind of textile stitching expert, how do you know that it's in decent condition internally?
I claimed it all off the other blokes insurance anyway, he was so totally in the wrong. Even the ambulance driver was saying that he must have been driving like a dick.

Without a helmet does slow you down I find, I find it quite liberating but you definitly need eye protection in my opinion.

accidentally just won this on ebay... It was a good deal but I'm already thinking opps

accidentally

accidentally?

If you've crashed in some kit, unless you're some kind of textile stitching expert, how do you know that it's in decent condition internally?
.

You need:

Alec and Linda Baumber
Crowtree Leathers
Harness Yard
Queen Street Place
Louth
Lincolnshire LN11 9BD

Multiple 100mph+ offs in the same set...no problem. Stern telling off and cups of tea guaranteed whenever you do eventually need repairs...

accidentally?

You've never accidentally won something on ebay?
I put the bid in to win kinda hoping I wasn't going to
win as I was watching 3 other bikes... It was £300 cheaper
than anything comparable I've seen on their recently though.

Is it 125?

Yeah just a 125, plan to ride it for a few months then sit my mod 2.
Picking it up tomorrow morning.

You've never accidentally won something on ebay?
.................I put the bid in to win kinda hoping I wasn't going to
win

i dont think i have but i treat the bay differently i guess. for sure i have paid alot less for things than i thought i would have to but that's not the same as accidentally winning. i dont get the bit re putting the bid to win hoping you wouldnt win. surely it would be easier to not bid, no?

i dont think i have but i treat the bay differently i guess. for sure i have paid alot less for things than i thought i would have to but that's not the same as accidentally winning. i dont get the bit re putting the bid to win hoping you wouldnt win. surely it would be easier to not bid, no?

l sometimes regrettably make big decisions by tossing coins or rolling dice