Open face Helmet

[polarisrider1]

I know the goggles I use for skiing have good peripheral vision. Have to find the frames that fit your face. Lots of them to choose from but you get what you pay for. Smiths and Oakleys are among the best.

There is a little more to it than that. The goggles have to fit the helmet.

 

[09summitetec]

What is this chin curtain that you are referring to and also when you are wearing the no fog mask, do you still have the breath box in your helmet??

Chin curtain is my term - - not really sure if it has a name but it the piece of fabric that fits into the underside of the tip of the chin portion of your helmet. Usually rests up against the bottom of your chin. I pulled that piece out so when I'm exhaling air out the No Fog, it does not get trapped in the helmet. I removed the breath box too. It is duplicative of the No Fog, which redirects air down and out like the breath box but does it better. Breath box on top of No Fog is also too much stuff on the face.

 

[Powder8]

I also wear a helmet while skiing. So I know that arms of the frame must accommodate a helmet. I use my sled to get me back in the woods to do some backcountry skiing. Do it alot out west. Were all in search of the fresh pow!

 

[indy_500]

My $40 setup. $20 helmet $20 gogs free mohawk

 

[ezra]

I still want to know why it is so hard to find a 2 hole face mask. I hate spending money on somthing just to bring it home and cut it up.best thing to have when using gogels is the arctic cat gogel bag made with silver fire prof fabric they mount under hood just behind post.when cold and you stop you can swap out a nice dry warm pr.and remember it sucks hard if you dont have a clear pr with after dark

 

[tritonmark]

goggles

With the open face has anyone ever been hurt from a rock or ice chunks from other sleds? I have a shield and was hit by some small rocks this weekend and wonder how it would hurt with a open face helmet. I didget wacked on the knee by a bigger rock that just about took me out. Very painful at 40 mph

 

[thunderstruck88]

hey if they wear closed face helmets in NASCAR thats the Helmet I would want on the trail or even if I was on a Harley I want safety and sometimes you got to sacrrifice comfort to be safe Also if the late GREAT DALE E Sr would of worn one he still might be with us today . Also I would not want to flip off my sled and onto something with my face head first with out something to try and buffer it Just a thought from me Enjoy the ride but be safe !!!!!

 

[nic]

Thunderstruck- they don't mean open helmets like the old school type- they mean the moto-cross style. So no shield, but goggles instead. These helmets still have a full 'face' and your chin/face area is protected. But rather than a standard flip up shield, the helmet is just open in the eye area and you wear goggles.
I am still considering this switch. I almost did it last year and wimped out. I had another cold season with my modular2 this year. If you don't have the sunshield down, there is a wicked airflow into that thing. When it's -15 out, it's brutally cold. I also have pretty much no windshield on my sled (but it looks cool, so we keep it right? =) I got caught in a pretty decent snowstorm and the lack of windshield, combined with the gap in the helmet was a disaster. I had more snow IN my helmet, than ON it. I couldn't see. It was horrible. So I'll be scoping out/trying on helmet/goggle combinations at the shows this year.

 

[thunderstruck88]

ok I just worry too much about my fellow John Dee memebers just looking out for your safety too many deaths this year on sleds to

 

[indy_500]

thunderstruck, here's an open on the left, closed on the right

 

[thunderstruck88]

thanks Indy great looking helmoets if I may add love the mowhawk on them to

 

[ezra]

Thunderstruck- they don't mean open helmets like the old school type- they mean the moto-cross style. So no shield, but goggles instead. These helmets still have a full 'face' and your chin/face area is protected. But rather than a standard flip up shield, the helmet is just open in the eye area and you wear goggles.
I am still considering this switch. I almost did it last year and wimped out. I had another cold season with my modular2 this year. If you don't have the sunshield down, there is a wicked airflow into that thing. When it's -15 out, it's brutally cold. I also have pretty much no windshield on my sled (but it looks cool, so we keep it right? =) I got caught in a pretty decent snowstorm and the lack of windshield, combined with the gap in the helmet was a disaster. I had more snow IN my helmet, than ON it. I couldn't see. It was horrible. So I'll be scoping out/trying on helmet/goggle combinations at the shows this year.

my grandpa always wore the old school open face with the yellow bubble shield cuz you could have the shield down and still smoke a but with out burning the shield.I would pull next to him at times it was like a cheech&Chong scene with smoke filled shield

 

[D.B. Cooper]

With the open face has anyone ever been hurt from a rock or ice chunks from other sleds? I have a shield and was hit by some small rocks this weekend and wonder how it would hurt with a open face helmet. I didget wacked on the knee by a bigger rock that just about took me out. Very painful at 40 mph

I rode for several years with a closed faced helmet, switched over to a Motocross style w/goggles in 2003, would rather give up snowmobiling than go back to that.

And yes, I did get hit with a rock, hit my goggle lens pretty hard, but no injury.

With the Motocross helmet + goggles there's really no more exposed than with the closed face.

I'd bet that the thickness on the face shield is about the same as the goggle lens, and if a projectile goes through that, you're riding in the wrong neighborhood, lol

 

[indy_500]

my grandpa always wore the old school open face with the yellow bubble shield cuz you could have the shield down and still smoke a but with out burning the shield.I would pull next to him at times it was like a cheech&Chong scene with smoke filled shield

lmfao!!! I take it you take after your grandpa?