Well I really wanted to like this Shark evo one 2 helmet as you can ride with visor down, it has a space for a blue tooth battery, price was what I was looking at and seemed good value.
And you can ride and not have the lid half up in a sail position, almost like a jet helmet. Went to try one on. Opened fine and went into lock position smoothly. But trying to put it back to full face mode, I couldn't put it on in the closed position (even though it was my size). Then more importantly I found that I struggled to get it loose from the back to close the lid. It was catching the spoiler. Lifting it and pulling it up was fine but then it wouldn't click into locked closed position. I took to lifting the chin bar and slamming it down. Like slamming and almost going blind from the jarring! Still wouldn't engage the lock. Slammed it a good few times, no joy. So I swapped to a different Shark helmet to see if it was just that one. Yep, it closed from behind the head smoothly, but again I couldn't get it to click lock in the position. Slam or no slam it wouldn't lock easily. So I guess the manufacturing is where the cost savings come from. Told the sales guy and he said it may need adjusting. 2 helmets, 2 not want I was expecting failures. It looks slick and easy etc on the videos but I found them a bit too basic in their mechanisms to like it enough. Fit was good and visor was long enough. As its advertised, it is a good mid price helmet which packs features but I know these little irks will get me soon enough (like wind buffeting on an AT - small niggles, but niggles I don't want from a new piece of kit) costly mistakes learned a while ago! So I went trying the others. Wow the Shoei Neotec 2 feels class, just slick in every aspect in comparison, but at £575 its out of my budget. Add comms and its £750 -half the cost of my bloody bike! Can't have that... I liked the HJC R Alpha 90 but the best feeling one was a Schuberth C4, on special for £350. So I am now looking into this as a new helmet. Having the blue tooth ready to drop in is a plus and seems a no brainer, so I'll be researching Schuberth and their SC1 Standard comms kit tonight. Comms kit is going to be another £160. Comes with 5 year warranty, all wired in, just pop the slimline blue tooth unit inside. Seems a very good deal. Anyone care to comment?