Have an ARAI 3/4 and ARAI Full Face. Try them all on and buy the one that fits your head. All the recommendations in the world won't make the helmet fit your head. I like the Helmet Shop in Daytona, but only buy ARAI for the fit.

 

As mentioned earlier, try a helmet and if it fits, keep it on for 30 minutes. You can walk around the shop. If it still feels comfortable, it should be fine to wear while riding.

1/2, 3/4, full, it all depends on what you are comfortable with and willing to risk. 1/2 is good, but will not protect your face from bugs/debris, smacking your chin on the pavement and/or from getting road rash. 3/4 gives more protection, but not full protection. The full mask on the other hand should protect your face and chin.

I like riding with my 1/2, but I also ride with my full (modular) helmet.

I understand how people love to ride without one. But, I enjoy riding too much to risk serious injury, in which can prevent me from ever riding again.

 

Blue,

I haven't had any problems with the visor or helmet and have about 2500 miles on it so far. I don't clean the inner visor, just the outer one, maybe that's why?

 

I wear a brain bucket (skid lid) ...non DOT...sometimes.....mostly to keep my hat from flying off...although I will admit a full face would be nice in the rain or when
Hell(Florida) freezes over.....

 

A full face helmet would be nice to keep your face in place....but as some of us saw on TV a month or so ago...that woman that had her face bitten off by a friends chimpanzee,
never saw it coming. How can you protect your self from a chimpanzee attack?
How about the woman a couple days ago killed by a fish that jumped into her rib cage in a kayak?
I am a firm believer that what don't kill you, amazes me.
(one of the number one causes of injuries in America is 'bathroom showers'....wear a helmet y'all.)

chuck the mensh

 

I agree with Chuck...whatever it was that he just said...

 

Para el norte de la tripulación Cuba ... "Caca Happens!"


Better now?

 

 

You may want to check out the Scorpion EXO-100. So far it's been the best half helmet I've owned with several cool features.