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Keeping Your Head with Helmet Safety | Up North Sports


Keeping Your Head with Helmet Safety

For those who enjoy jumping onto or into their dirt bike, snowmobile, kayak and especially the motorcycle, one of the first rules for proper operation is to protect your head from injury. To do this, you need a helmet designed to ensure your gray matter doesn’t become splat matter. When you’re riding your custom bike or cruiser, you want to look cool. With most state traffic laws requiring head safeguards, you want a helmet that is functional while also striking in design.

The half-helmet is often used for street bikes, but also provides no protection for your chin or the sides of your head.

Full-face helmets are most often seen being worn by riders cruising on higher speed roadways, highways and freeways. This protection fully encompasses the head and the chin area and offers extra strength. Air circulation within the helmet is somewhat restricted, leaving you rather warm and vision can sometimes be impaired by a foggy faceplate.
         
The hybrid is a bit more flexible in that you can open up the chin part of the helmet and slide that piece upwards. This design is most accommodating for riders who wear glasses.
         
The three-quarter-motorcycle helmet is also called an open-face helmet and its design is to ensure protection for the side of your face and your ears. There is no chin protection with this design and you can easily detach the visor.
         
And then there are the helmets designed for those who like to get down and dirty with their motor cross machines… these protective helmets are designed to accommodate goggles and also are manufactured with a dirt cap.
         
One of the premiere manufacturers of motorcycle helmets that look great and also protect the rider are from HJC – the HJC motorcycle helmet is also flexible in that many sports activities can benefit from the use of this company’s superior design, manufacturing and pricing.
         
Whether riding for sport, play, work or to save a few gallons of gas, do yourself, your family and other riders a service by protecting the very intelligence that gives you the aptitude and opportunity to ride your motorcycle.