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| Thatch | | Thor |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 07:12 Post title : Old School Helmets | | | There have been a number or discussions about helmets lately and while looking for a number of things I stumbled upon 'Old School Helmets', a custom helmet painting shop that specializes in, what else but, 'Old School Helmets'. They paint and distress helmets with retro themes, producing some really nice results. (be aware the 'distressing' is only a paint distressing, this isn't furniture distressing where they are beating the helmet with chains and angle grinders)
Here are a couple of their designs.
Now, it should be noted that most of the helmets shown are painted Biltwells which are 'novelty' helmets. However, they also use the new DOT Biltwell Hustler, and the Bell Custom 500 (also DOT). If you like open face helmets and like the old school look, check them out. If you are a 'full face helmets are the only responsible way to ride, anyone that rides open face is just asking to get hit in the face with a brick at 60 mph" kind of guy, well perhaps these aren't the helmets for you. The guys there are very responsive though and good to deal with.
Oh, and they've got a rockin' t-shirt if you are so inclined.
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| midge | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 345 | | Location | : | Beverley, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 07:42 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: Thatch) | | | I love these!!
Still using my full face but mostly cos I can't find an open face that I can live with yet.
All the legal ones here have a huge shell and look really stupid!!
Still searching but love those designs 
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| Thatch | | Thor | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 08:03 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: midge) | | | Check out the Bell Custom 500. It's got the same shell as the original 500 but has been refit and tested as a fully DOT certified helmet. I just ordered one (not from these guys, but one of these is on my list) and I'll let you know how it is. The be all end all for open faces as far as I am concerned is the Davida Speedster (not DOT but OH SO NICE) and the 92 (British Safety Standard passed but with a fabric liner instead of the leather in the speedster) I own one but it got scuffed up in a move. However the Jet and Jet Classic do have the...  Dark helmet sort of look to them.
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| midge | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 345 | | Location | : | Beverley, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 08:17 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: Thatch) | | | I tried a Jet the other day and it still looked like a large black ball on my head 
The 92 Looks good but is only approved up to size Medium! Not tried one but guess that although I take a medium in my Arai I may need a large in the Davida!
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| Thatch | | Thor | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 08:43 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: midge) | | | Agreed, the Jets are kinda big and goofy... If you normally wear a Medium in the Arai I'd figure you'd do so in the Davida as well. I've not found them to be sized smaller at all. I do wish the 92 had the leather lining though. That's what I love about my speedster.
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| midge | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 345 | | Location | : | Beverley, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 08:56 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: Thatch) | | | What's good about the leather - doesn't it make you sweat? Never had a leather lined helmet before!
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| Thatch | | Thor | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 09:00 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: midge) | | | Actually just the opposite. It keeps the helmet much cooler. Standard linings feel like a blanket wrapped around my head in comparison. The way it breaths and keeps cool. I used the helmet when living in North Carolina with back to back 100 degree weather and horrible humidity and had no heat problems at all in that helmet. Now the rest of me was hot as hell but my head was good.
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| lioneloxford | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 01/04/2011 | | Posts | : | 231 | | Location | : | Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 27 Apr 2011 - 16:39 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: Thatch) | | | Somewhere I have a 40 year old Everoak helmet that I had back in the 70's.
Lewis Leather in London used to have an old display of pudding basin helmets in their store, some in pretty bad shape after a crash.
Real Rockers
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| Birdy68 | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/07/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,352 | | Location | : | Bad Zurzach, Aargau, Switzerland |
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| | Posted : 29 Apr 2011 - 19:39 Post title : Re: Old School Helmets (Re: Thatch) | | |
Thatch wrote:
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Very nice! Very nice indeed...
Might look at some of these myself!
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