So I finally found a place here in Portland that has SNELL helmets for racing. Whats your input on open-face vs closed-face.
I'm thinking open but I dunno lol

 

i bought an open face bell

you have a airbag so if your wearing full face with airbag your gonna get fucked up lol

i even asked a race instructor before i bought it and he said open face too

 

open face, its not like your on a bike deflecting bugs or anything.

 

if your air bag breaks your helmet enough to **** you face up then you bought a bicycle helmet.

buy a full face and take the visor off.

make sure it is rated for Snell SA2010

Bill

PS you look like a *** at the dragstrip with an actual open face

 

as long as its snell sa2005 youll be good for all tracks and sweet too bad i dont drag my cobalt so i dont have to worry about looking like a ***...

 

Take off the visor. Some tracks will not pass you for safety if you have a closed-face helmet with the visor still on.

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OP, try them both on and see how they feel. I wear a closed face for auto-x and to be honest, I don't have it on long enough to even really notice it. It's also an M rated helmet so it's a shade lighter. When I was looking for a road racing helmet, I tested out both a closed and open faced helmet. I found that for long runs, the closed face really bothered me, the edges of the helmet were in my field of vision plus after a few laps, I don't know, it just started to make me feel claustrophobic almost. The open face helmet felt a lot more natural and didn't bother me so much for longer runs.

 

Well learned something new today figured I could just slap on my sport bike helmet and be good not the case needs the snell rating.

 

This is a lot of good points. I'm heading to Competition Motorsports tomorrow after work and I'll try on both. Plus, they'll probably have some good input.
Thank you much!

 

Snell has two ratings - M and SA. M is the motorcycle rating. It's fine for most drag strip test-and-tune events as well as for auto-x. If you want to run anything on a road course, you have to have an SA rated helmet.

Try them on, and leave each on for a couple of minutes. Like I said, at an auto-x where I have it on for maybe 2 minutes at a time, a closed face helmet is fine for me, it's when I have to have it on for 30 minute sessions that it really starts to bother me.

 

haha thanks chica and i was fine othan than my head is huge and i hada loer my seat so i didnt hit the roof lol

 

and if you get a closed face and ever buy a bike you dont have to buy another :P

I like the closed face, im used to it as I road moto for a while so its w/e.

 

I wear glasses. Nearly impossible to get them on through a closed face helmet.

I prefer open face and have reced for years with one. Not legal below 10 seconds though.....but you have a long way to get there with the Cobalt.

ron

 

i have had no problem with my closed face and glasses 0.o you just have to put them on AFTER the helmet hahaha

 

i wear sunglasses with my open face with no problems

 

So I went and got one today. I wound up getting a closed-face helmet. I talked to some of the guys at the shop...they all recomended closed face. I tried on both for a while and started to like the closed face better. I t just felt more safe to me incase things got a lil crazy.

I would up getting a closed-face SA2010 Z9-APX ZeroNineRacing helmet

 

nice, i have a scorpion exo-700 (snell m2005)

i just put it on for the first time in a year hahahaha, i miss my bike

 

this one:

 

mine isn't that cool

 

nice!

 

i drive normally with my closed face one.....