HALF, OPEN OR FULL HELMET FOR A CRUISER RIDER ?

[oldschoolorange]

Up here in Canada (Ontario al least) helmets that meet DOT or SNELL ratings are mandatory. I have allways gone with the full face design because I started on dirtbikes and that is the type of helmet that you usualy bought. Also I have bailed on the things many times and the full face is nice to have when you go into the ground face fisrt. The best place to get Helmets up here I think Is royal distributing in Guelph they are huge and have the best prices on about 90% of anything I have seen Shoi helmets all start at about $450-$500 Canadian so that is not bad. I currently have a modular helmet that allows me to flip the entire front up it is nice if you get caught in traffic so you dont cook as bad

[BAJACRUISER]

Thanks for all your comentaries, bikers......

I finally decided and bougth a full helmet with flip up front (KBC) for 250 usd. Whit it, I will survive the extreme heat in this city, and Ill be protected. All of you have reason, It´s my face and is my decision to wear a helmet or not. I know that some people here in my town is going to say to me that i´snt cool, (the police permit not to wear it) but doesn´t matter, I always going to use the helmet.

I bougth a JBC helmet for my son too....... (160 usd)

[BAJACRUISER]

I let you know, my dealer is going to give a half helmet for free, so I will know exactly the difference to wear each one....

[Media Weasel]

...I think is not for the style of a Cruiser Rider, the half and open "goes" more with the image of the rider ...

If yer buying a helmet for the image, you might want to pause a bit. A helmet ain't there to do bugger-all for your image. Save keep your noggin from turning butt-ugly.

Having had one mishap where I pitched face-forward (self-induced, low-speed idiocy) I won't *ever* ride with anything less than a full-face lid.

[t_bonee]

Bring out your dead.

[ofblong]

53. Sixty percent of the motorcyclists were not wearing safety helmets at the time of the accident. Of this group, 26% said they did not wear helmets because they were uncomfortable and inconvenient, and 53% simply had no expectation of accident involvement.

Check out that 53% stat when you think wearing an open-face helmet is ok.

what's your point? that's of riders not wearing any helmet. wearing an open face helmet is ok, the only time i wear my full face is in inclimate weather (rain, cold temps, plague of locust type "poo poo"), otherwise i've got the beanie on which is a hell of a lot better than no helmet. you can quote that report all you want, but you've yet to provide more than speculation about the difference between helmets.

maybe you should take the MSF course. a "Beanie", or how I like to call them condom caps, is the same thing as no helmet. And from experience I have a friend who got into an accident without any helmet. top of his head was fine because thats the least likely place your going to get nailed but his jaw/nose etc is now all titanium plates. My bro-in-law his neighbor was in an accident and was wearing a beanie and well he got into an accident put him in a coma and just about ripped his jaw completly off and they had to cut off the beanie because it was choking him. I have riden with another guy who has been ridign bikes for 40 years and he said the first time he bought a full face within 2 days he was in an accident. all he had wrong with him was a broken arm and a very bruised up leg. Nothing wrong with his head or face. He also takes trips every year back and forth to florida and texas on his honda goldwing with wife behind him.

So I just gave you 3 instances of accidents and how each one was different. You can make your own decisions and im not trying to persuade you to get anything different or to go one way or another but the facts above is a good enough reason for me to wear a full face. Well that and when I stall at a stop light no one can see who I am buwahaha thats a good one course I have never stalled at a stop light so I guess that doesnt apply lol.

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Oh in the msf course they show you that its proven the highest percentage place that you will nail in an accident is your jaw. Not the top of your head, which is like a 3% chance, but the jaw. So your beanie is gonna protect you 3% of the time in an accident.

[safety-boy]

Wear whatever you like. Some places you never see cruiser riders with full helmets, some places you see many. A half helmet is no better than no helmet. Saying that, I'll ride with no helmet once in a while (it's not legal in my state to do so , but neither is splitting lanes! ).

If you plan to ride in the cold, it would be good to have a full helmet then.

--Dave

[Ian522]

My bikes have all been standards, but even if I got a cruiser I would always wear a full face. Your exposed face hitting the ground at any decent speed would result in pretty horrific injuries. Its just not worth it.

Me personally I like the enclosed feeling of full face helmet. I feel like it puts me in the "zone" when it strap it on.

[Kal]

I keep the helmet I was wearing when I had my accident in the garage as a reminder each time I go out that if I hadn't have been wearing a full face I'd be a darn site less pretty.

I slid through gravel face down, there are places on the visor you can't see through anymore. That would have been my face.

First show I went to with my misses after we get together seriously I bought her a full face lid because I wasnt letting her on the Bike or Trike in her half face.