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Are your helmets SOLID color OR with GRAPHICS?

SOLID color (I'm kinda boring)
50 (57.5%)
Flashy GRAPHIX (Look at me!)
34 (39.1%)
Roll My Own (I think I'm Troy Lee)
3 (3.4%)

Total Members Voted: 82

Voting closed: July 25, 2011, 08:10:53 AM

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Offline JetJock

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Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« on: May 26, 2011, 08:10:53 AM »
What it says. Ran this on the old forum (RIP)  :-[

When it went to Cyber Hell, the tally was about 50/50 . . . which proves I'm not sure what.

I've changed this so you can vote TWICE, since most of us have more than one skid lid.

Pictures if you got 'em.
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Offline Organdonor

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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2011, 08:47:23 AM »
I never have graphics on my lids... seems squidly.

My current "boring" Nolan, in flat black. Just snapped it, the Sena headset is charging:
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2011, 08:52:13 AM »
I have both...depends on the graphics.
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2011, 08:52:57 AM »
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2011, 08:57:04 AM »
I've got the exo 500 in the black oil graphics to match my black 09. This is an awesome helmet.
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2011, 09:04:12 AM »
I voted 'Kinda boring' as I have a silver Nolan N102, but the bright red Mohawk probably screams 'look at me!"...
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2011, 09:36:29 AM »
That reminds me... I need to buy new dog ears to suction-cup onto my current lid.
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2011, 10:40:06 AM »
I bought a HJC with designs with a blue motif to kinda match the bike with the fastest color in the C-10 world.

However, I mainly bought a patterned helmet so that drivers can tell when my head moves right away.  I want their attention ASAP 'cuz they ain't using it all the time.
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2011, 11:37:46 AM »
I prefer solid colors, mainly matte black.  My one exception is my blue Scorpion Exo 400 which has the I guess you call the tribal design on it, but the only reason I got it was I needed a helmet for snowmobiling (double windshield) last minute and it was the only design they had in my size and gave it to me dirt cheap and I ended up using it on my bike for a bit as well. 
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2011, 04:47:05 PM »
I use to have mulitple helmets, different color schemes for my different bikes...
 
But once I got my Scala G4 and my H.A.R.D helmet display light for my radar detector I now only have a solid black helmet so that it can go with any bike and I don't have to mess with constantly changing my helmet farkles back and fourth...
 
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2011, 05:16:28 PM »
Quote from: JetJock on May 26, 2011, 08:10:53 AM
"Topic: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?"

BOTH!  Scorpion EXO "Sublim" design, which is a two-tone helmet with a subliminal graphic (a very faint one).  You get the best of both worlds :)
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2011, 05:37:02 PM »
Solid high viz yellow....
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2011, 05:23:21 AM »


Solid helmets are kinda boring...
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2011, 05:45:37 AM »
Graphics - I buy last seasons graphics to save a few dollars compared to the solids.  The graphics I buy are more visible than the solid colors I like; black/silver.  Safety first for me.

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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2011, 08:35:54 AM »
Graphics are a little more interesting. I have a carbon fiber blue that suits my 2010 C-14. My last helmet was a Rock Hard AC/DC helmet. I got so many comments on that helmet. I'd like them to make a Metallica helmet.
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2011, 09:23:54 AM »
Quote from: Scaffolder on May 29, 2011, 08:35:54 AM
I'd like them to make a Metallica helmet.




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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2011, 10:20:21 AM »
I'm into the more "mature" look.  I ride fast enough as it is that I don't need the cops looking at me and giving me a ticket for "probable cause"  ;)

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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2011, 10:39:44 AM »
Does "Roll my own" include a stock helmet that has fallen off the bike a couple of times? It has 'custom' nicks and scratches in a unique pattern.....

Is this like 'distressed' jeans where if the manufacturer rips and stains them it doubles the price but if I do it I have simply ruined a pair of pants?

Brian


Quote from: JetJock on May 26, 2011, 08:10:53 AM
What it says. Ran this on the old forum (RIP)  :-[

When it went to Cyber Hell, the tally was about 50/50 . . . which proves I'm not sure what.

I've changed this so you can vote TWICE, since most of us have more than one skid lid.

Pictures if you got 'em.
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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2011, 10:44:02 AM »
I think I want this....

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Re: Helmets: Solid or Graphics?
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2011, 12:49:55 PM »
Graphics.  Currently wearing a HJC chrome w/ black graphics.  Highly visible, which is what I am wanting.  Shines like a diamond in a goats ass and can be seen for a mile.

Previously I wore flat black, if anything at all.  (transition from HD sportbike to sport tourer.)
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