Helmets

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I've had a problem with my neck muscles for a bit and after only a few miles I found myself holding my head up and riding a lot one hand,I looked into the weights of helmets and although I don't like open faced ones if I wanted to keep riding in some sort of comfort I thought I'd better try one.I bought a Shoei platinum R and couldn't believe how light it was,immediately my problem was a stack better and now I find I can spend a good hour without getting to much neck pain,ok,you get a fair amount of wind blast and I wear a pair of wrap around glasses but it beats not riding .I think it weighs around 1000,1100gms.all I know is it's a gods send for me at the moment. :thumbup

I would of thought that wind blast would far outweigh a few grams weight loss in the helmet.
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it's not just a few grams though,I've always used Arai and have 2 at the moment both quantum which weigh around 15/1600 gms I think which might not seem a lot and if someone had told me it would make that much diff I probably wouldn't have believed them I can only go by my experience,you obviously have no such problem so you wouldn't think a pound or so would matter but believe me it does.
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Have to agree. My HJC RHPA 11 has got to be one of the lightest full face helmets I've seen at 1300g, makes a hell of a difference compared to something like my old Caberg flipfront which I believe was around 1650g