New Helmet - RF1400

[Pyrrho]

I also dislike lack of detents on the visor (Item #5) and for a premium helmet that is not acceptable. It is not as if the lack of detents enhances safety in the design.

How much riding do you do with your visor opened 25%? Do you think it'll stay there at speed once the wind catches it, or that wind could violently slam it full open or shut when you don't expect it to? Sounds like a potential safety issue to me.

Arai gives you three options for visor position -- full (locked) open, full (locked) closed, and closed w/seal broken to demist (which isn't needed anymore w/Pinlock). Unlike Shoei, Arai's mouth vent has two positions, one of them to point wind at your face, the other to redirect it along the inside of the visor and over your head. Unlike Shoei, Arai also has multiple sets of inlet vents at the front as well as exhausts on the top, sides, and bottom rear (which is why you can't mount the Packtalk Slim to them, the neck-vent prevents mounting the battery).

Methinks you want the airflow of a partially-open visor. Maybe you just need better venting? Is it because of wanting a partially-lowered tinted visor? That's what Arai's Pro Shade system is for. Really... what is it that makes these extra visor indent positions such a requirement that lack of them is "unacceptable" in a premium (ie, expensive) helmet? Shoei doesn't have a problem sacrificing rider safety to include things like internal visors -- do you find THAT acceptable?