Try holding the helmet while moving your head side to side and back and forth – you shouldn’t be able to. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Since I bought my first helmet in 1996 I’ve found Arai to be really comfortable, as I have most of the other top-end brands. Many Arais also have a ‘peripheral belt’, which adds strength above the visor aperture, allowing for a slimmer inner liner at this point – important when you need to be able to peer through the top of the visor when hunched over a sports bike.

You won’t find racers using helmets with drop-down shields, but that’s also because the design makes the brow thicker, which makes it harder to see in a racing tuck.YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

We are registered in England and Wales at Unit 3, Waylands Farm, Tatsfield, Approach Road, Tatsfield, Westerham, Surrey, TN16 2JT UNITED KINGDOM (do NOT send correspondence or parcels to this address), Company House number 07176651. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Some cheap motorcycle helmets available online may look great, but do you know what you’ll be getting? Bennetts is a trading name of Bennetts Motorcycling Services Limited, registered in England and Wales (company number 11453343) with its registered office at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX.The ‘super-fibre’ used in each of the two layers of every Arai shell is claimed to be 30% stronger than normal fibreglass thanks to the ‘birds nest’ arrangement of the fibres, which sees them laying in all different directions to better resist cracking and splitting in an impact. But it doesn’t mean you have to pay that money; it just goes some way to explaining why they cost more. The affordability of this helmet is what makes it so popular among riders, and has been designed and engineered in a way that understands what motorcyclists want. I’d say the Shoei has had about 100,000 miles on it, while the MT is 15,000 to 20,000 – but it has been on my head while I’m not riding, so use time is still very high; most people aren’t wearing their helmet for seven or eight hours a day, five days a week. But you must be careful with what you use to clean a visor as some cleaning products (even a few sold for visors) can seriously damage the plastic, making it brittle.