does anyone do DJ in a full face?? i would see it being more advantageous when you crash as you aint going to ruin your pretty face  :'(


thought i would ask here than starting a new thread when this is already about full faces.

I just concluded that my chin is probably stronger hehe. I wear a piss pot.

Owen

Yeah but you reckon a Met Parachute would stop that?

Remember that it's not the full-face as an entity that I am questioning; simply the Met Parachute. But as I said, I know nothing.

Owen

this is what happens if you ride downhill with a piss pot!

i bought my full face after this incident. i always wear my helmet now. whenever i go on rides now it feels like every tree stump is trying to trip me up.

i have always had mixed feelings about full faces, my thoughts have alays been that if the mouth guard bit stays intackt on a crash that hits it then it would surely transfer the pressure onto your neck, and if it does crumple then is there any point in having it, is it still better than nothing?
i quite like the troy lee open things, good protection around the head and more comfortable,
just my thoughts though
(if i dont make sense ignore me)

I think the pressure is taken by the cheek guards - as your face moves forward the cheek guards take most of the force.

I think you’re staring from a fundamentally flawed assumption “Pslide”, that being, current MTB full facers aren’t designed for DH riding which of course they are, and it has been/still is an evolving design process… 

The TLD D2 has been the example pointed to over and over, but other helmets all share common features, primarily increased enclosure of the head, a structurally integrated chin guard specifically designed to absorb and dissipate frontal impact and a visor (serving whatever purpose people think, I always thought it was meant to help shade your eyes from sun glare)…

But basically protection comes way above ventilation on most riders list of requirements from a helmet, if you can improve comfort without compromising protection your onto a winner, my suggestion would be stop drawing Nova body kits, and start actually thinking about airflow, there’s more to it than peppering every surface with holes…

Downhill racing has some quite horrible design requirements for a helmet, we cover the lump on top of our bodies where a lot of our thinking is done, and where we radiate more heat than any other area of our bodies in 2” thick insulation and then go for what is essentially a flat out sprint requiring lot’s of concentration, from a slowly cooking brain… finding a way of keeping your whole head cooler for just one run, or even a whole days riding would be a massive leap forwards…

Nobody’s saying current helmets are prefect but they certainly aren’t bad and the re-breathing issue to me seems to be an imagined one, sure it happens when your stationary, but above 4Mph I would imagine the airflow through the forward area of even the cheapest helmet means your exhaled breath is carried almost straight off…