Open face helmets

[Richard]

Best place to buy/try open faced helmets anybody.  I have long fancied a Davida but am none too sure about the legality of the various models.  Also Ihave to think about what goggles will work best with glasses without looking like a Power Ranger !  Any advice as I know that a fair few of you wear them.

[002]

Best place to buy/try open faced helmets anybody.  I have long fancied a Davida but am none too sure about the legality of the various models.  Also Ihave to think about what goggles will work best with glasses without looking like a Power Ranger !  Any advice as I know that a fair few of you wear them.

Davida Jet is legal,European Spec.....Classic Jet(mine) American Spec....Speedster,Scandanavian Spec..
If you are in Cardiff you can try Bevans,Riders and Heine Gherkin !
Llandow Classics,Cowbridge sell Davida and a small concern in Crickhowell.

Jethro

[Richard]

Tried the Gherkin already - no joy.

Where are the others then - its been about twnety years since I liv ed there and they seem to have moved.

Richard

[Furry John]

I have to think about what goggles will work best with glasses without looking like a Power Ranger !  Any advice as I know that a fair few of you wear them.

Richard, I use a Davida Jet with Aviator goggles also from Davida. They make a model with a cutout in the padding around the outside of the lens to allow the earpierce of your glasses through. I don't think they look too bad and they are OK in rain and at speeds up to about 110mph, at about 120mph on the Ducati the strap starts to vibrate in the wind around your helmet and make a lot of noise, possibly not a problem for you?

Furry

[Richard]

Well 120 mph is a theoretical possibility on the Beemer I suppose, but only approached on the IoM where at speeds like that everything was vibrating rather a lot, including me.

At those sorts of speeds my glasses are vibrating particularly badly, so much so that I can barely see and have to slow down.

I've also been looking at the open face Bell but see that they use a car seat belt style fixing instead of my preferred double D ring.  But then they are 'only' £170 and still have a leather interior.

I've looked up where Riders and Bevans are these days so shall try to head out there at some point.

When I last went into a modern dealer I came out having fallen for the new Morini 1200 Scrambler.

Richard

[Mart]

Have you tried contact lenses instead of spectacles? They work for me, much more comfortable and no risk of misting up.
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[jules]

I have to think about what goggles will work best with glasses without looking like a Power Ranger !  Any advice as I know that a fair few of you wear them.

Richard, I use a Davida Jet with Aviator goggles also from Davida.
Furry

Furry John's helmet was a bit floppy at speed(so i hear) before he had his Davida




Mart wrote

Have you tried contact lenses instead of spectacles? They work for me, much more comfortable and no risk of misting up.
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3 pints of feeling foul stout and you always make a spectacle of your self,you old crusty

[robG]

Furry John's helmet was a bit floppy at speed(so i hear) before he had his Davida

Blimey, Twins. I thought I'd seen Furry before. The star of stage and screen no less.

Rob .
 

[Richard]

Doesn't take long for the dialogue to sink into the inevitablle smuttiness does it ?  I would be disappointed were it otherwise...........

Has anybody tried out one of the Davida leather facemasks then.  A 'protective' for the lower face ?

Richard

[guest7]

Aschually th'leffermask ish prethy nithe... hang on, that's better, I've taken it off now... I can talk properly...

On a slightly unrelated note, I have just tonight sold a WWII gas mask on Ebay, under the category 'militaria'. However Ebay, in its wisdom, has suggested other 'similar' items, but they are all bondage masks and the like. It's making me wonder if I placed it in the wrong category 

GC

[002]

Doesn't take long for the dialogue to sink into the inevitablle smuttiness does it ?  I would be disappointed were it otherwise...........

Has anybody tried out one of the Davida leather facemasks then.  A 'protective' for the lower face ?

Richard

YES ! I have Tried one  

My Beard stuck out the bottom  

Jethro

[guest7]

My Beard stuck out the bottom  

Not for the first nor the last time I fear 

GC

[Richard]

Hmmmmmmmm............Only my doing this on a hospital computer prevents me from searching ebay for similar potential opportunities.

On an unrelated note  must try to obtain a large empty syringe - just the job for reverse filling awkward hydraulics, or accurately measuring fork oil.

 Any opinions of the Bell open face ?  If I could get to Staffs I could try on all the options.

Richard

[002]

Hmmmmmmmm............Only my doing this on a hospital computer prevents me from searching ebay for similar potential opportunities.

On an unrelated note  must try to obtain a large empty syringe - just the job for reverse filling awkward hydraulics, or accurately measuring fork oil.

 Any opinions of the Bell open face ?  If I could get to Staffs I could try on all the options.

Richard

I'm going to Staffs so that I can order my 5th Davida !
As No4 had a slight impact....with my head in it !

Jethro

[Richard]

Jethro,

Which of the Davidas do you buy, and what do you pay ?

The Jet seems to be the most likely choice and I have seen them advertised for £205 plain.

The Bell RT is  still in the running.

As for beards sticking out of the bottom (get thee behind me Satan Smutty) mine is  rather less bouffant, I refuse to write  smaller as it will only encourage Carrick.

See you this evening.

Richard