Not all Arai's fit the same...

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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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Scootabout wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:44 pm I've also bought a legal smoked visor to go with it, rather than the one with the external flip-up dark shade, which I didn't get on with very well previously.
The helmet's fine, albeit a bit noisy, unless all vents are shut and the visor's locked in place. It got noisier on a recent trip to France, and I couldn't initially figure out why. Then I noticed that one of the eyebrow vents had fallen out. I sent it back to Sportsbikeshop, who said they couldn't get a replacement until a month's time, so I've taken a refund. I've decided to stick with the clear visor and use polarising yellow clip-on sunglasses with it when it's sunny. I'd been doing this with the old helmet since I lost the external flip-visor, and it worked pretty well, so I'm not really sure why I decided to go back to a legal tint in the first place.
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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PAH! Arai fanboys are all penny-pinchers. Real riders wear Alpinestars, not cheap crap.
https://www.alpinestars.com/pages/sr10
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Hot_Air wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:32 am PAH! Arai fanboys are all penny-pinchers. Real riders wear Alpinestars, not cheap crap.
https://www.alpinestars.com/pages/sr10
Have they named a price yet? I bet it's well north of £1k.
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Skub wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:38 am
Hot_Air wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:32 am PAH! Arai fanboys are all penny-pinchers. Real riders wear Alpinestars, not cheap crap.
https://www.alpinestars.com/pages/sr10
Have they named a price yet? I bet it's well north of £1k.
an arm and both legs??
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I bet it costs an arm, both legs and a kidney.

But if you have to ask Alpinestars the price, you can’t afford the helmet :lol:
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Noggin wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:45 am
Skub wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:38 am
Hot_Air wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:32 am PAH! Arai fanboys are all penny-pinchers. Real riders wear Alpinestars, not cheap crap.
https://www.alpinestars.com/pages/sr10
Have they named a price yet? I bet it's well north of £1k.
an arm and both legs??
I read that the initial launch volume is 200 units. Probably both arms too.
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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Finally got round to buying a Quantic.

This one.

https://gearchangeonline.com/collection ... space-blue

They gave me a 15% discount because I'm cool.

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Tried on some Shoei and HJC's at the same price point and there was no comparison in fit and comfort.
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Nothing tops an Arai for that plush feel.

Ur lid needz moar pinks. :thumbup:
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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Having removed the visor to fit the supplied pinlock, I can honestly say I much prefer the older visor change. People complained about it, but I had it down to a tee, I could swap a visor in seconds.

This new one is just mad.
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I didn't really like the Quantic originally because of the 3D badger/emblem. It was quite a while later that I bothered to find out that it was an air duct, daft as I am.

I'm due a helmet sometime this year & it might well be one of these. I do wish Arai would sort their graphics/colours out, though. This one's definitley one of the best, for me.
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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I've fitted my Cardo intercom, there's some nice touches. The cheek pads have channels in them for the cables and there's a pre-cut bit of foam you can pull out and replace with the speakers in the cheek pads.

The standard visor is profiled so that the pinlock is kind of counter sunk, so there's no raised edge to the pinlock when fitted.

I find the catchy thing for unlocking the visor a little difficult to work on the go, but I'll get used to it. On the older Arai's it just clipped/unclipped, this has a rocker arm to help, but I just not used to it.

The one I tried in the shop fit like a glove, this one is box fresh so not been on/off a hundred times and it still a little tight, but I have only done 120 miles today so I'm confident it will bed in a bit.

I dunno if it's quieter than my Axcess III or my Tour-X4 as I always ride with plugs in.

The vents work well, I accidently left one of the forehead vents open and couldn't work out why one side of my head was freezing until I took it off and spotted the open vent.
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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Nor do HJC

My HJC Rpha 11 is very very comfy, had 2 in,
Currently using a RHPA-1
Coming in at around 18 hours and it’s still hurting my forehead.

I can’t understand how they fit so different
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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The place I bought my Quantic had a HJC RPHA-1 Pol Espargaro rep for a very good price, I couldn't even get it half on my bonce in a Medium. Yet the 11 and the 71 I tried fit ok in medium, just no where near as comfortable as a medium Arai (excluding the RX7).
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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KungFooBob wrote: Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:24 pm The place I bought my Quantic had a HJC RPHA-1 Pol Espargaro rep for a very good price, I couldn't even get it half on my bonce in a Medium. Yet the 11 and the 71 I tried fit ok in medium, just no where near as comfortable as a medium Arai (excluding the RX7).
I take a medium too and the HJC RPHA-1 was too tight,so I changed the cheek pads for a size smaller to get a good fit. I bet that would work for you too,though it was about 45 quid for the cheek pads.
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Re: Not all Arai's fit the same...

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I couldn't get my head in the 1, it wasn't just tight, I couldn't get my head in it. All the other HJC's in the same size I could at least get on my head.