full face or open face
05-12-2010, 01:10 PM
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full face or open face
Which style helmet is best(SAFEST)when doing a track day
with your airbag still active?Did a search and found nothing on this subject.
thanks,
bill
with your airbag still active?Did a search and found nothing on this subject.
thanks,
bill
05-12-2010, 02:13 PM
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I made the mistake of getting an open-face helmet. I've been hit in the eyebrow and on the bridge of the nose by flying tire boogers - it stings! A hit square in the pupil would be ugly - if I didn't wear corrective eyeglasses it would be damn dangerous.
05-12-2010, 02:17 PM
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I always wear a full face helmet with my shield down. Even in a closed cockpit car wih the windows down I have been hit by stuff too.
05-12-2010, 02:27 PM
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Full Face. Not just for safty but rememeber you MUST run window open. You know how ****ty is it to get pouring rain in your face on the track at 120 mph!
05-12-2010, 02:45 PM
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05-12-2010, 02:52 PM
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yes -- but i know the organizers and have a competition license, etc. at HPDE speeds there's no way i could have a problem outside of mechanical failure and they know that.
05-12-2010, 04:41 PM
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i've been hit in the eye by a small tire marble entering 140mph kink. no permanent eye damage thankfully. not an experience I would wish on anyone - driving a lap to exit the track with one eye closed and tears pouring down my face was not fun either.
05-12-2010, 05:23 PM
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shield up or down?
05-12-2010, 05:31 PM
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05-12-2010, 05:38 PM
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05-12-2010, 05:41 PM
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oh sorry, i was thinking of open face as the type without a chin bar yet still has the shield (which is what i use). the kind that's just a skull cap is utterly stupid!
not having the chin bar is just more comfy especially when you have a headset to slide in for talking to the passenger.
example: http://www.saferacer.com/hjc-cl-33-o...productid=1079
not having the chin bar is just more comfy especially when you have a headset to slide in for talking to the passenger.
example: http://www.saferacer.com/hjc-cl-33-o...productid=1079
Last edited by mousecatcher; 05-12-2010 at 05:44 PM. Reason: add url to example helmet
05-12-2010, 06:00 PM
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oh sorry, i was thinking of open face as the type without a chin bar yet still has the shield (which is what i use). the kind that's just a skull cap is utterly stupid!
not having the chin bar is just more comfy especially when you have a headset to slide in for talking to the passenger.
example: http://www.saferacer.com/hjc-cl-33-o...productid=1079
not having the chin bar is just more comfy especially when you have a headset to slide in for talking to the passenger.
example: http://www.saferacer.com/hjc-cl-33-o...productid=1079
This is what I consider to be full face, with or without a shield
