Full face Arai only if it gets cold... otherwise, let the wind blow through the hair!

 

I wear one if it's cold or if I'm going on the highway. Around town I wear glasses. Always wear a full face helmet

 

I all ways wear a full face its all black with ghost flames on it. In ct you do'nt need a helmet but I still wear it my friends alway make fun of me but who gives a **** I ride for my self any way.

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AndI certainly trust goverment officials

your diatribe was silly at best. Im not sure who won, you or the church lady.

On topic, My wife wears the fullface and I wear a half.

 

3/4 HD Jet II. May switch to a full face. We don't have a helmet law in Florida. The helmet, and the class are the only requirements the wife had for me to get the bike. Not bad since I would have done both anyway.

 

Wearing a full face helment is worse than being in an SUV...whats the point?...wheres the freedom?...JMPO...:&gt

 

41 years of riding I don't wear a helmet. You hit a car at 40 mph your pretty much toast anyway. The Officer a few days ago was killed wearing a helmet. So what's the point?

 

I wore a full face in my MSF class and didn't like it. I always wear a half and am probably going to buy a carbon fiber helmet. Part of the deal for me getting a bike was I had to wear a helmet and in Wisconsin with your permit you have to wear one so I did and ever after having my license for almost 2 years I feel weird without it on, like driving a car with no seatbelt.

 

There was study completed recently on full face helmets and survivability. In the study, a rider involded in a wreck, wearing less than a full face helmet suffered a very high probability for death if his face was impacted in the jaw area. In the same senario, a rider wearing a full face helmet was much more likely to survive. However, the rider with the full face helmet ran a high risk of becoming a quadraplegic. It seems that the chin guard on a full face helmet gets pushed backwards into the jaw, causing the jaw to move reward, severing the spinal cord. I guess that makes for another personal choice, dead or live as a quad?

 

Also in Vegas, helmets required.

My risk tolerence is lower then most who ride, so I've worn a full face since passing my MSF almost three years ago.

Just in the last 8 months, I've seen....

1) Came upon a rider near Lake Mead about two minutes after a tankslapper, where the guy high-sided a VRSC and landed face-first. He was riding with two others, and they had the situation under control, so I only stopped for a minute to check on them. He was a face full of blood, and they were trying to figure out how many teeth he'd lost. They were at two when I left.

2) Took the wife to the ER two weeks ago after she tore her knee up from a bad fall. The only other people there were the wife and riding partner of a guy on an E-Glide who went down in the Mojave National Preserve. This was only a 15 mph get off, but he also came down face first. I saw him after being treated as he was leaving. His face was a mess.

It wasn't lost on me that both of these guys would have been basically uninjured had they been wearing a full-face helmet.

I don't even bother trying to tell other people how to protect their head. People are passionate about their relative positions, and I have to respect that.

But for myself, I've already seen enough in a short amount of time to make the decision easy - even in the sweltering summer heat. (5 hours at 114+ is not only no fun, it's damn dangerous with a FF and full gear.) So this summer I'll just be smarter about what time of day I ride, instead of shedding gear.