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I know a few on here have had them and had issues with them.

So should i give them a miss?

I've had an older one and never had an issue. It also saved my mates head in a crash. The helmet was obliterated and he didn't even get concussion.

I'd take minor quality defects in a visor clip knowing how well they perform.

Mine needed replacing so I got a RPHA 11 back in November. Haven't used it yet though

I have no issues with HJC, I have two I use now, well priced, good quality. Give them a look

My Nolan is better quality. HJC are fine but for commuting the Nolan is much better

Never had a problem with my RPHA 10, but it's very noisy.

Monty wrote:Never had a problem with my RPHA 10, but it's very noisy.

Same but then you cant expect what is sold as a race helmet to be quiet in fairness

Had mine for 4 years no issues. If you want something quiet for the road take a look at their RPHA-70 is a good suggestion.

The RPHA 70 is still quite noisy. My mate has one which he uses on trackdays. He used my RPHA 10 one session and said there wasn't much in it.

If you aren't wearing ear plugs when you ride then you should be and that takes most of the noise variation between helmets out anyway

I've had quieter race rep helmets and I've had quieter cheaper helmets.

It's not nesscearlily about cheap and expensive, it's about different designs for different sectors of the market which have different needs.

By race rep I dont mean a racers colour design. This can be applied to a race or road helmet purely for marketing purposes. When I say race helmet, I mean a helmet design specifically for race use, although it can still be used on road if legal, obviously.

Race reps tend to be noisy as their design brief is lightness which makes noise attenuation difficult and also as a racer is exerting themselves their helmets are designed to move a large volume of air per unit of time, for cooling purposes and we all know air movement is noisey.

A road based helmet does not have the same focus on all out lightness at the cost of all other qualities, it's more balanced and less focused on one design criteria.

Noise attenuation will be given a much higher priority in a road helmet design than it will be in a race helmet, as a race helemt is likely to be worn for less than an hour and a road helmet could worn be all day, every day and noise will become tiring. Subsequently air movement will be given a much lower priority in a road helmet than it will in a race helmet.

In short horses fir course.

A light helmet does not have to be a noisy helmet.

HJC are noisy helmets. Don't kid yourself that HJC are noisy because racers use them.

Kwacky wrote:A light helmet does not have to be a noisy helmet.

HJC are noisy helmets. Don't kid yourself that HJC are noisy because racers use them.

I won't be buying another HJC.

It's not a race helmet and it's noisy with earplugs, unusable without.


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Kwacky wrote:My Nolan is better quality. HJC are fine but for commuting the Nolan is much better

Which Nolan have you got?

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I've been very pleased with my Nolan. It needed a lot of breaking in, but perfect now.

I've got the N86. It's my second one. I had the 85 before.

I think mine is an N86 too.

Nolan do a really nice modular helmet but neither Helmet City nor Sportsbikeshop have anything on offer in a colour worth having.

Reading reviews they get great marks for quietness but less so for ventilation but then i don't think you can have both. Its either one or the other.

X-Lite do things the other way round even though they are the same company but again they only have dark or shite colour combinations.

The N86 and 85 visors are the same which is why I went with the 86 and not the 87.

Not sure what the ventilation issues are but the pinlock works.

I did great myself to a nice Shark lid at the NEC. I've not had a Shark for a while. I won't be using it for commuting so I've not used it yet. Shark used to reasonably quiet.

Cheers guys, I might have a look into them. Prices seem pretty reasonable.

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Correction mine is an N87.