spalkin
Well-known member
I'm shopping helmets and since Arai was the first serious helmet I'd ever owned back in '85 I thought I'd give them a good try. At first I looked away from the Arai line because of the higher price and the pain-in-the-*** shield changes (having owned an Arai back in '85 you didn't have to convince me that the shield was a pain to change).
So I picked up an EXO-700 and it's a great feeling helmet and great all around but I've recently been wondering if Arai could bring me back.
Now you've got to be on top of it when you're looking into an Arai because of all the shapes and sizes and exchangeable liner parts etc. I knew they had to have something that fit like a second skull.
But how about the face shields. All I hear are nothing but horror stories. "It's scary.", "Sounds like parts breaking in there!", "Those damn side covers!" On and on.
Surely Arai couldn't be bottom of the list in face shield change technology - could they? Turns out, no.
Here you go CLICK
And here's another one that's good.
So I go out to the local Arai dealer and ask if I can try on some helmets and see if one fits. Corsair - no. Vector - no. Profile- no. Quantum 2 - yes.
I tried on some Shoei's and I liked the TZ-R better than the RF-1000 just based on personal fit. The Shoei line gives lots of nice space for your ears. Very nice.
The salesperson liked the RF-1000 and said he owns one. I agreed on it's virtues but I was mostly there to see about Arai, no offense at all, I've owned Shoei and loved 'em.
We started talking about the differences and got right to the face shield change. "Oh it's a nightmare! Sounds like it's breaking." Then I put the helmet back on and showed him this cool trick I learned on the internet. He said "My God. Well I can't argue with that."
So I just wanted to pass this out for anyone who still thought it was impossible to change out an Arai shield. It's not that I need to change out shields every five minutes, it's more that I expect a helmet to operate easily and well in as many ways possible. The shield action is a big one.
So I picked up an EXO-700 and it's a great feeling helmet and great all around but I've recently been wondering if Arai could bring me back.
Now you've got to be on top of it when you're looking into an Arai because of all the shapes and sizes and exchangeable liner parts etc. I knew they had to have something that fit like a second skull.
But how about the face shields. All I hear are nothing but horror stories. "It's scary.", "Sounds like parts breaking in there!", "Those damn side covers!" On and on.
Surely Arai couldn't be bottom of the list in face shield change technology - could they? Turns out, no.
Here you go CLICK
And here's another one that's good.
So I go out to the local Arai dealer and ask if I can try on some helmets and see if one fits. Corsair - no. Vector - no. Profile- no. Quantum 2 - yes.
I tried on some Shoei's and I liked the TZ-R better than the RF-1000 just based on personal fit. The Shoei line gives lots of nice space for your ears. Very nice.
The salesperson liked the RF-1000 and said he owns one. I agreed on it's virtues but I was mostly there to see about Arai, no offense at all, I've owned Shoei and loved 'em.
We started talking about the differences and got right to the face shield change. "Oh it's a nightmare! Sounds like it's breaking." Then I put the helmet back on and showed him this cool trick I learned on the internet. He said "My God. Well I can't argue with that."
So I just wanted to pass this out for anyone who still thought it was impossible to change out an Arai shield. It's not that I need to change out shields every five minutes, it's more that I expect a helmet to operate easily and well in as many ways possible. The shield action is a big one.