Best Racing Helmet?

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Desert Disciple

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Hey everyone,
Hope you've all been well. I've been busy workin and rockin, and through that have had opportunities to pre-run Baja and 
even possibly race (navigate) in the near future. I navigated while pre-running the 500 a few months ago, and my driver loved how I operated and
encouraged me to pursue it. So I took the 2 Waypoint Nav School courses here I am. Anyway, our team we partner with/sponsor
is going to be running the 1000 in November, and I'm going to be going down to help pre-run again. I was wondering what helmet is the best bang for the buck.
I'm not sure if I need to get a whooptie-do carbon fiber one (expensive!) or just go with a standard one. (Is there THAT much of a difference?)
I've been looking at:

PCI Impact Air Draft
https://www.pciraceradios.com/collections/race-helmets/products/pci-elite-wired-impact-air-draft-os20-sa2020-helmet
As well as the Simpson Desert Devil
https://www.ruggedradios.com/products/simpson-race-sa2020-carbon-desert-devil-helmet-wired-offroad

Any other good helmets I should know about? Thanks in advance!


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Maybe not much help.....  

The last time I was looking for a street bike helmet I found a website that has impact data for each of that years models.  It was eye opening how much or little you could spend and get the same protection to the brain.  

Imo, fit is as important as brand and every head is quite different.   I've seen lots of folks with terrible fitting super expensive helmets....... 

 
What @Bobalos said. Confucius say: “Helmet that fall off, only protect air.”

Also, helmets should be annoying to remove, even with no chin strap. Your cheeks should be smooshed, and you should have red marks on your fool ass forenoggin after wearing it for a while. :biggrin:

 
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Like Grant said try on as many years as possible. Price doesn't dictate comfort. I have a old (out of date) HJC that I wore for racing for 5 years. I have a big azz head. I used a dremel to clearance the front for head area because I'd have a bruise after each race. When it expired I bought a $900 carbon fiber Pyrotech and hated it. It would ride up on my face no matter how tight I made the chin strap. Made it difficult to see. Two races later I was back in an HJC non carbon fiber helmet.

My kids have newer Simpson helmets either fresh air. I still use my old HJC. 

 
Helmets MFGs are all shaped different, find the one that fits you best, then see what that company offers as upgrades in safety and features you like.

 
I don't know if Arai makes anything suitable, but they were adamant about fit, offered different models in round or long oval shell shape, and offered different size interior pads to tune the fit. My melon was saved by one at Pocono, so yeah I am a fan.

 
L.R.S. said:
Like Grant said try on as many years as possible. Price doesn't dictate comfort. I have a old (out of date) HJC that I wore for racing for 5 years. I have a big azz head. I used a dremel to clearance the front for head area because I'd have a bruise after each race. When it expired I bought a $900 carbon fiber Pyrotech and hated it. It would ride up on my face no matter how tight I made the chin strap. Made it difficult to see. Two races later I was back in an HJC non carbon fiber helmet.

My kids have newer Simpson helmets either fresh air. I still use my old HJC. 
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I am thinking that helmet expired as soon as you took a dremel tool to it. 

 
you only have one brain/head lol. it only takes one time and your shittin in a bag and someone's feeding you, don't cheap out for sure. ask the team what they

require, you may have to have radio, pumper etc. and need to consider all that also.

 
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