Helmets New Helmet on the market

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scorpiom exo-700 look,s best for ventilation and cost, lot,s of people are going to them instead of the 500, plus arai or the sort
 
I saw some product literature on the Shark at my local dealer. It looks interesting enough, but I don't see anything that would convince me to abandon my Sy-Max 2.

+1 on the Shark website. They put all sorts of money into making it LOOK like you can learn something, but forgot to put in the part where you actually DO learn something.
 
I tried one on a week or so ago. Very interesting design, nice looks. I might well have bought one but for a couple of reasons. The sizing is downright weird. In every other helmet I've owned I wear a medium. The medium evoline was so big it felt almost like I could spin it around on my head without. OK, and exageration, but it was way too big. A small was better, but still too small. I couldn't get it far enough down on my head, and as a result the bottom of the tinted internal visor cut right across my line of site.

Reason 2: Quality control. The medium I tried on worked ok, but the small was very hard to latch the chin bar in place. I had to slam it to get it to solidly latch. (And yes, I know you have to push it in, not just down, to latch it.) That would worry me a bit.

After trying on all the flip-face helmets I could find locally, I ended up with a Shoei Multitec. Not super fancy, no internal sun visor, no fancy graphics. But it's comfortable, high quality, and it fits.
 
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