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Buying a helmet
kjt:
Yea I'm torn between the two. Will probably go for the more coverage.
Thanks for ALL the advice ppl :)
Asho87:
Get Joey's one!!! Cow print!!
Jim:
Some more info for you...
I have the one Sara mentioned http://www.shredready.com/products/shaggy.html which also has the advantage that you can wear it frontwards or backwards depending on where you want the peak. Great stuff. Disclosure - I got mine for free.
Simon has the http://www.shredready.com/products/fullmental.html which has really good coverage.
It's all about the coverage really and forgetting about the cool-looking freestyle dude ones. Also, in my opinion, go composite rather than plastic, although beware that 'composite' just means a mix of plastic and fibreglass, without specifying ratios.
Jim.
Jim:
--- Quote from: bexifer on July 17, 2007, 06:45:16 ---WRSi are great. White water Reasearch and Safety Institute. It is a safety institute that is associated with John Hopkins Research Centre.
--- End quote ---
Hey Bex, don't believe everything you read on the interweb. These guys are about as valid an institute as the club, eh, wait that sounds wrong. Anyway, they're very controversial, try looking them up on Boatertalk. That said everyone says the helmets are good, but the back story is not as simple as their website says.
Why are you on the internet so much - is Uganda really rubbish or something? You're missing all the water here.
And another thing, in general...
Lots of folks buy helmets that initially give good coverage and then wear skullcaps under them, resulting in poorer coverage on the forehead. This seems to be particularly true of the trendy freestyle helmets. Watch out for that.
Jim.
Jim.
joey:
Id say get the Happy 2b river helmet!! i have the skook and it leaves a lot of the back of the head exposed! i have my trusty old pro tec for running any rivers i think ill be upside down on alot!
And just bout the WRSI helmet, its a really nice helmet and reminds me of the helmets the batters wear in baseball, but the son of the couple that set it up was wearing a protec, but as far as i know it was a protec that should have been returned to the manufacturers as that batch were recalled for safety reasons!. Joey
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