How much?!

Anton Gijsen said...

Hardly, I'm a Nitro rep.

 

He probably should be because people will change to using Arai crash
helmets after a year of the crap he sells.

 

I can;t recall what Andy's got but Arai lids are crap in terms of noise.
Well, my Quantum F is anyway. I'm sure someone told me it was to do with the
side pod design. The RX7R (or whatever the top model is) is meant to be even
noisier.

 

True, but I'd still put my money on an Arai lid being better than a
piddle^H^H^H^H Lidl lid.

 

I'd agree completely with this.

They are bloody comfortable and long lasting though.

 

Yes. Unless I'm behind an articulated lorry with 24V air horns
constantly blasting away.

There you go.
ISTR that continuous exposion to loud noise will naturally cause your
ears to create wax. I had this problem when I worked in a loud factory,
even though I wore ear protectors.

 

That's where you're mistaken. It's no noisier at 100mph than 30mph (on
my bike) but that's because my crash helmet eliminates a lot of the
wind noise. Even having the vents open doesn't make it worse and the
only time I bother with ear plugs is if I'm away on holiday doing a
lot of miles every day.

 

Mine's a Schoei and it's a lot quieter than the AGV I has before it.
I've never owned an Arai because I found they didn't fit as well as
the Schoei when I was looking at new helmets.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Cab

Well, there was this time that...

No, that one's boring.

Give me a bit of thinking time.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Anton Gijsen

You're really rather stupid, aren't you?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

HE SAID YOU'RE REALLY RATHER STUPID, AREN'T YOU?

 

You'll regret it 10 or 20 years down the line, when you wish you'd worn
earplugs or had a quiet helmet.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

60mph? What do you ride, a Dnepr?

It's not like the jury's still out on earplugs.

 

Ah... pikey helmet, pikey bike without electric start.

Figures ;-)

Oh... and try not leaving the lid on the seat in future - one would have
hoped you'd have had the brains to work that one out for yourself by now,
but seemingly not.

 

It's long term exposure to a slightly loud noise that does the damage in
this case. It's insidious, you don't notice the hearing loss until it's
too late.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

life.

Only they'd disappear before you'd had time to run your finger across the
screen?

 

Yeah, right.

They never get shielded from any wind blast (1) by the rider, do they..

(1) Depending of course on the bike and sizes of persons concerned of
course.

 

And some colourful full-face lid with "Motrax" and "Micron" stickers
plastered all over it ain't pikey?

Electric start is for pussies who don't know how to kickstart a bike. I
like kicking the engine over, it gives me a sense of giving something
back to my bike for all its hard work.

I'm weaning myself out of the habit. AFAIR I haven't done it since I
started using my latest lid.

 

LIDL lid's for cut price brains ?

Paul.

 

Is that what you've got then, or are you implying I have... in which case
you'd be 'wrong'.

<Paging Timo>

There's a man over here who'd like to have a go at kicking over the XL...

" "

Oh dear.

Much as I'm fond of my current two wheeled squeeze, I tend to find rewarding
it with regular oil changes and the like, enough.