those lids look sweet, Yea the field of vision takes some getting used to on the older AGV race lids. I might buy one in a few years after the price drops lol I always have to wait and buy, like a two season old Rossi Rep

 

.. ahhhh, that carbon is :boobies!!!!!

 

H O W. M U C H ?:hammer:

 

Let me get this straight.. They intend to do the same biometric scan of each customer?

 

More likely they'll charge you extra for a helmet that fits Rossi perfectly! :hammer:

 

Bet it's a grand..

Sweet helmet tho. I'll wait like others have said

 

:lol :thumbup

 

Great minds think alike. :thumbup

 

Very nice lid! I can't imagine they would offer the custom fitting for the average rider off the street, and if they do, I can't imagine the price!:scared

 

Shouldn't you actually ride a bike before worrying about the helmet and FOV?






:crash

 

Looks nice. Still won't fit me.

 

Thanks for the back story on Rossi's new lid. I saw that recently and was curious about it.

I'm an AGV fan even though Arai's fit me the best. I've got a couple of GP Tech's and find that the FOV is OK, but not bad at all compared to my Shark RSR2, which I love for ventilation and the SHARP UK safety rating, but is like wearing horse blinders because the eyeport is so short and narrow. Great on track, but horrible on the street were peripheral vision can save your life.

Looking at the pictures above, I can't help but be reminded of the Akuma Phantom Carbon. I know the details are different, but the overal shape and the placement/shape of the rear spoiler seems familiar:

 

I've been looking into the Akuma helmets for some time now. The Phantom Carbon in particular. My friend can get me one for about $100 brand new. The only drawback is I really want the T.O.D shield that will tint automatically. The the Phantom Carbon does not offer the option.:no

 

That is a great looking helmet, and from what you wrote up there, seems very promising. Hard to pass, unless it costs more than a slab of gold.

 

Im in.

 

Remember they had the custom "face" GP Techs where you could send a picture to AGV and order directly from them? Perhaps they will have you take various measurements of your head and face and then offer some type of custom-molded fit. IIRC the custom "face" helmets were retail price at $899. I bet if they did offer some "custom-order" it would likely be at least $1,000 - probably 1,000 Euro so more like $1,250 for us 'Mericuns.

 

At least, yeah. The paint job is a very minor cost in comparison to making one off helmets from scratch.

 

I very highly doubt they are going to offer doing a scan for each customer. That helmet would cost thousands of dollars if they did that.

 

That is a sick helmet! I will be getting one in three season when the price drops well below $1000+. Too bad it will be a three season old helmet since only a handful of people will be able to pay that kind of money for one when they hit the market. lol

 

That's a good point. If indeed it is everything that AGV is insinuating, this is like Dainese (who owns AGV) with their new-to-the-public airbag suits. The first generation of these are now $3,000+ but in a few years the trend should catch on and you'll see Teknic and Speed and Strength with the feature. Which would be a good thing. Alpinestars also has a new airbag suit while Spidi and RS Taichi have licensed the Japanese Hit-Air Airbag system in some suits and jackets.

Kent Kunitsugu of Sport Rider Magazine raised an interesting point in an article a few years go that what really needs to advance is the entire technology of helmet impact absorption. Expanded polystyrene as the main energy absorber is not ideal for multiple impacts, such as a tumbling fall, among other shortcomings.

Fit is critical for today's helmets to work properly, but as a consumer I would be more interested in spending my money on a true advance of head protection technology. Something that can manage the impact G's better than the current state-of-the-art, which is basically a controlled-deformation plastic.

 

@JeffD

Del Rosario Motorcycle Helmets

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2010/10/the-motorcycle-helmet-of-the-future/

Been waiting for this new helmet tech to get moving along. It is nice to see that someone is looking at more than just light weight shell and aero tech. If only a large helmet mfg would put some R&D into this.

Looks like that full article might not be there anymore but the pics are.

 

Thanks big1little6, it's great to see the innovators and entrepreneurs are still at it. I can only hope this is a viable technology and is currently in license negotiations with a major manufacturer that can really do something with it. Then again, to your previous point, it will be 3 years after it launches that I can afford it!

 

Damn, this is an amazing lid. *drool

 

I want it. More now than before

 

Love AGV but this does upset me a little.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...fbid=316102338442838&set=a.122191884500552.28532.117693114950429&type=1&theater

 

Love AGV but this does upset me a little.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...fbid=316102338442838&set=a.122191884500552.28532.117693114950429&type=1&theater

meh, i'd rather have a big company steal it to make crazy new tech available to us than exorbitantly high priced small company helmets personally. i normally wouldn't support it, but i'm poor! :lol now if they just made room for people's f*cking ears.

 

I wish I could hook some of you guys up with deals that I can get. It's my friends business and I get deals like that because I help him out with engine building. Kinda of like a trade I guess. I checked out the link to Transitions and they don't show that they offer a shield for and helmets other than Bell and Lazer? Weird.

 

I understand, I do similar things with my friends. Thanks anyway.

It's unfortunate that Akuma couldn't get the Transitions shields, it probably had to do something with a minimum order from them and Akuma is probably too small and didn't want to make the financial committment. I have a Transitions shield for my Bell Star and it works amazingly well.

 

I wish I could get some sort of self tinting shield for my Shoei X12. It's an awesome helmet. Most of my rides start early in the morning around 6 or so and I sometimes don't get back home until after midnight. I hate taking my clear shield with me, but I cannot ride comfortably during the day without the medium tinted one. It sucks!!

 

i think they have the "self tinting" shields
found this
http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=2759.0

 

http://www.agv.com/en/pages/display/pista_gp/index

http://www.italianlegendaryprotection.com/