Originally posted by baco99:
i've got my CS12 full face for now. might shop around when i get my next bike.
One word of warning for when you do go shopping - beware of the flip-face helmets. They're solid, but the temptation is to leave the face up some of the time.
One guy that was in a riding class I took a couple of years back was practicing low-speed maneuvers, and turned just a little too sharply, tipping his bike over. He wasn't able to get his hands entirely under him as he fell, and he face-planted.
What would have been a scuffed helmet turned into tooth loss. Half of his front teeth - and I mean the teeth were broken in half - were gone because he had a flip-face helmet with the face up.
Sure it's better than a certain football-player-who-shall-remain-nameless, but if you can have full-face protection for less money, why wouldn't you?
Just a thought.
ZenTroll
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