Advice & Guides Video: Best 5 budget flipfront helmets
Flipfront helmets don't have to cost a fortune. These five belters won't leave you bankrupt...
10 Jun 2024
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Scorpion Exo - 491 - Matt Black I do have a big head but the helmet size is got is very snug but then protection feels great and it feels good quality and also looks cool.
Scorpion Exo-GT SP Air - Matt Black / Red Took a long time to find a helmet that fit my funny shaped head, needing an XS compared to the previous 1400's S.
Scorpions newest touring/sports helmet. Outside shell is a composite structure and has a styled shape with adequate but effective venting, though limited to just the 2 front openings. Internal linings are snug and ear space is generous, fitting my elephant lobes well even with head phones. The helmet has removable covers for where speakers can fit for a comms unit and the outside has a capped port where one can be mounted. Being so new to the market, compatible comms and mounts are hard to identify at the moment. Internal sun visor as well but had no need yet to use it.
2 visors are in the box, clear and smoke tinted, but you only get 1 pinlock insert that you fit yourself on either of the visors. It is a 120 and it works flawlessly as it rained during the CBT but the visor never fogged up. Also noticed that there was very little ingress of water anywhere. had the visor not fully closed at one point doing 30+ and no rain or damp patches on the padding.
Does well in strong gusty cross winds and wind noise is low to moderate, though my experience is limited as this is the first helmet.
Though mid-range pricing, a very good first helmet to get.
Scorpion VX-16 Air - Matt Black I ordered my usual size but it would squish my ears so much they'd be painful after 5 minutes
Scorpion Exo 1400 / R1 / 520 / 391 Visor KDF-16-1 - Road Legal I've been using the helmet for over 5 years on a dirt bike and I'm still using the original visor
Scorpion ADF-9000 Air - Desert Matt Black / Silver For a mid range helmet I am quite disappointed with this helmet.
I get terrible draughts from the visor. Substantial wind noise buzzing around inside the helmet and after seven months the pinlock completely failed. It is proving very challenging to get a replacement pinlock that isn't from the EU and costing a fortune. Nearly a quarter of the cost of the actual helmet with the current sale value. Very annoying.
It came with a second visor. Totally useless to me because I don't carry a second visor with me and would never go out with just a dark visor.
If I was marketing this helmet I would keep that second visor as an add on option. Drop the price a little.
What is good for someone might not be for the next person. Unfortunately this helmet is not great for me but seeing as I paid over £300 for it I will have to run it until it has served it's purpose.
Not exactly a super light weight helmet as advertised. Yeah, it is not a brick. But by the time you have added an intercom, maybe a camera and Goggles while still using the visor for road use then it is not exactly light.
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Scorpion ADX 2 - Lewis Black / Red Helmet looks great and is good value for a flip front adventure helmet. I've only worn it for a couple of short rides yet. The peak doesn't seem to catch in the wind. One slight issue is that the sun visor does touch the end of my nose.
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Scorpion Exo-391 - Matt Black Good helmet blocks wind noise and adjustable vents are good