JPrieST
Don't squat with your spurs on
OK, this is not a rant against this helmet. I'm sharing this for general knowledge as I really do like this helmet.
If you don't know this is a modular helmet. Pull the little tab at the bottom of the chin bar and you can raise it up. Well, that is unless the tab breaks.
Yesterday I did about 300 miles with a buddy up into the NC mountains and back down into SC. About 45 miles from home we stopped for gas. I went to raise my chin bar and pulled the little tab down, but the chin bar did not unlock. Hmm! Strange! I tried and tried, then got my buddy to look at it, still on my head, to see if he could see any way to unlock it. No luck. This is when for some odd reason I got a bought of claustrophobia and tried to pull the helmet off. NOT going to happen! Claustrophobia just got worse and I told my buddy to get it off no matter what! Now he rides a Harley, so you know he must be a bad @$$! He grabbed the straps and pulled outward, trying to spread the helmet apart, as hard as he could. I went to pushing for all I'm worth. The claustrophobia is now getting pretty bad and I'm yelling at him to get it off. He starts jerking, and it finally came off! OOOOWW, did that hurt my ears!
Now, I don't know if this is all because of the shape of my head, or if it is because I have Dumbo ears, but let me tell you. If you go down with this helmet on, it is going to stay on your head, no chin strap required! I ended up riding home with no helmet, boy did I feel exposed. I have never ridden on the street without.
When I got home, I started disassembly and here is what I found. As you may know, once you have the chin bar up, it is easily removed on this particular helmet, so I will start with the chin bar already removed.
Here it is still assembled:
I have removed the plastic cover on the inside and exposed the compressed styrofoam (?):
Here is with the styrofoam removed and the latch mechanism is now exposed:
I'm pulling down on the release mechanism and you see that one side of the red slide has moved with it, but the other side did not.
I removed the three screws and here is what I found: (you'll have to use your imagination as I did not put the parts back in relation with each other for the picture)
Summary: It actually uses metal clasps for the locks, but the pull tab to release these clasps is plastic. It has felt flimsy from the first day I bought it, but has never given me trouble till now. If you look in the pictures you can see two cables radiating out to either side. The plastic tab pulls these cables to flip the metal latches to release them. If I can get Scorpion to send me a replacement for this broken part, I will continue to use this helmet, as I really do like everything else about it. I am even more confident that it will protect me in a get off than I was before.
If you don't know this is a modular helmet. Pull the little tab at the bottom of the chin bar and you can raise it up. Well, that is unless the tab breaks.
Yesterday I did about 300 miles with a buddy up into the NC mountains and back down into SC. About 45 miles from home we stopped for gas. I went to raise my chin bar and pulled the little tab down, but the chin bar did not unlock. Hmm! Strange! I tried and tried, then got my buddy to look at it, still on my head, to see if he could see any way to unlock it. No luck. This is when for some odd reason I got a bought of claustrophobia and tried to pull the helmet off. NOT going to happen! Claustrophobia just got worse and I told my buddy to get it off no matter what! Now he rides a Harley, so you know he must be a bad @$$! He grabbed the straps and pulled outward, trying to spread the helmet apart, as hard as he could. I went to pushing for all I'm worth. The claustrophobia is now getting pretty bad and I'm yelling at him to get it off. He starts jerking, and it finally came off! OOOOWW, did that hurt my ears!
Now, I don't know if this is all because of the shape of my head, or if it is because I have Dumbo ears, but let me tell you. If you go down with this helmet on, it is going to stay on your head, no chin strap required! I ended up riding home with no helmet, boy did I feel exposed. I have never ridden on the street without.
When I got home, I started disassembly and here is what I found. As you may know, once you have the chin bar up, it is easily removed on this particular helmet, so I will start with the chin bar already removed.
Here it is still assembled:
I have removed the plastic cover on the inside and exposed the compressed styrofoam (?):
Here is with the styrofoam removed and the latch mechanism is now exposed:
I'm pulling down on the release mechanism and you see that one side of the red slide has moved with it, but the other side did not.
I removed the three screws and here is what I found: (you'll have to use your imagination as I did not put the parts back in relation with each other for the picture)
Summary: It actually uses metal clasps for the locks, but the pull tab to release these clasps is plastic. It has felt flimsy from the first day I bought it, but has never given me trouble till now. If you look in the pictures you can see two cables radiating out to either side. The plastic tab pulls these cables to flip the metal latches to release them. If I can get Scorpion to send me a replacement for this broken part, I will continue to use this helmet, as I really do like everything else about it. I am even more confident that it will protect me in a get off than I was before.
