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Since the really duff polycarb stuff got weeded out years ago just about any helmet will do a better job of protecting your head than your neck will do at keeping it attatched to your body.

Annoyingly, if you hillclimb, MUK (the artist formerly known as the MSA) demands a FIA spec helmet ..... any bike shop will provide a quality helmet (nicely graphiced) to ACU gold standard that will allow you to bike race and fall off unprotected at 150 mph and rattle your head up the road ..... to hillclimb your car strapped into a full certified roll cage with a six point harness you need the FIA spec helmet at three times the cost (and no graphics just plain at that price) ..... go figure?

Thanks for the helmet ideas chaps - just some food for thought, especially for cold days.

Here’s my budget bone dome with the visor up.

My dad worked in London hospital as a dental surgeon rebuilding jaws for motor bike riders who like the helmets that don't have the extra bit to cover the jaw. He worked there for 3 years while he studied orthodontics and returning to Australia as an orthodontist. He said the average treatment is 6 years so he saw patients start treatment, finish treatment and in the middle of treatment, but he never saw one start and finish.

The helmet Ewn has is that type, I would be happy to use it in a car but not on a motor bike.

Ewn - great photos.

A mate of mine killed himself in 1985 at age 21. He hit a car at 3 times the speed limit. Unfortunately he split the car in two and killed a 9 year old kid in the back seat as well. Bike, mates body less his head and the 9 year old all in the back half of the car. The helmet with head still inside was found 100 metres up the road.

It's certainly a risk, but how big? I wore full-face helmets for the first 46 years of my riding, fell off/crashed half a dozen times (3 times when competing in hill climbs, 3 times on the road) only banged my head twice, not seriously. and never got anywhere near hitting my face. It was my knees and shoulders that sustained the damage.

I switched to open-face helmets a couple of years ago when I was finding full-face helmets were just too hot, and I judged them really not necessary for pottering around the countryside at 50 mph.

I was very pleased to be in a full face helmet as face slid along a graveled road in Algeria

I've been looking at these for in the 3W, paragliding helmet (550grams) fitted with the headphones. Colleague is developing one so the headphones work with Bluetooth. The microphone works well upto 40mph trying to get a suitable windsock that can deal better with higher speeds. Headphone quality similar to Bose.

Full face is certainly safer on a motorcycle, but in a car, drinking beer, using the phone and smoking my pipe is nigh on impossible in those type of helmets. It’s also dangerous for other motorists who need my advice shouted to them, they hardly know how wrong they are if they can’t see my lips move.

Seriously though, open face does allow conversion with each other and in my case, keeps my hair out my eyes.

The main reason we’ve bought them was for when my son is eventually old enough to insure my Caterham, we intend going on a few two car road trips. The Morgan doesn’t feel at all dangerous but somehow the Caterham does, despite the full harnesses, the roll bar feels very close to the back of the head, the 7 also suffers from a lot more wind buffeting.
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Another sunny day so a quick spin to the seaside and to try to post a parcel to Belgium. Over the phone the PO said they would take it but in store they changed their minds. They closed shipping to the EU down under the COVID excuse. DHL et are also not taking anything.

So a bit of a burn on the A14 at legal speeds to get home.