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Colin Edwards honors fallen SEALs with Indy helmet
This is the first picture of Colin Edwards’ helmet design for the 2011 Indianapolis Grand Prix. Featuring the Special Warfare insignia of the US Navy SEALs and the stars and stripes, it pays tribute to the 22 special forces soldiers who were killed on August 6 when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. Most of those soldiers were members of the elite SEAL Team 6, which was responsible f...
25 August 2011
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Leaked: Arai Signet Q
Spotted on Revzilla by a keen-eyed reader is the Arai Signet Q, the long over-due replacement for the original Signet which was discontinued in 2004. Designed for riders with "extreme long oval" shaped heads, this helmet fills a void in both the Arai lineup and the helmet market as a whole. Based loosely on the RX-Q, the Signet Q shares it's vent system, exterior features and new style (10mm wide...
04 August 2011
Helmet Pr0n: Arai RX7 RC
First shown in concept form two years ago, we’d forgotten all about the carbon shell RX7 until we saw Bruce Anstey wearing one at the TT last week. His is one of only 300 Arai RX7 RC’s that will ever be sold in Europe. The £2100 helmet is made using Formula One helmet technology that dramatically reduces the weight, but is incredibly labor intensive. 22 man hours go into each one. The RC is...
15 June 2011
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Icon ties Arai in helmet satisfaction survey
Plucky upstart Icon has tied helmet giant Arai in the 2011 JD Power Helmet Satisfaction Survey. That’s a huge achievement for the brand, which originally set out to create safety gear for an audience that wouldn’t otherwise wear any. Tieing for first puts Icon ahead of Shoei, Scorpion, Bell, HJC and other brands more often associated with brain buckets. The study measures owner satisfaction ...
26 May 2011
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How the earthquake is affecting Japan’s motorcycle companies
This illustration shows the locations of Japanese motorcycle factories and companies in relation to the 8.9 magnitude earthquake’s epicenter off the coast of Sendai. So far, the only word of significant damage comes from Honda’s Tochigi R&D facility where one person was killed and 30 injured during the quake. It should be noted that this is an ongoing event, aftershocks continue and tsunami wa...
12 March 2011
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A statement from Arai regarding Dexter Ford's dismissal
The following is a statement from Rick Menapace, the president and creative director of The Plummer Menapace Group, Arai's marketing and advertising firm, in response to the article "Leaked docs show Motorcyclist caved to advertiser pressure, fired editor." It's unedited and unaltered with the exception of minor formatting changes. -- Ed. >Arai Helmets states, unequivocally, that we had absolute...
15 July 2010
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Reflective helmet paint helps night safety
Created as a limited run in Italy, these Arai Vector helmets use a retroreflective paint to increase safety at night. That reflective clothing and helmets increase safety is a given, but they're often not used because they make you look like a hall monitor rather than a badass biker. Paint like this, available from 3M and other companies, could be incorporated into helmet designs straight from the...
16 December 2009
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Arai Corsair V RC: F1 tech for motorcycles
The Arai Corsair V RC shares its method of carbon fiber shell construction with the $5,095 GP-6 RC Formula One car racing helmet. That means, like the GP-6, it takes 22 man hours to make a single helmet. With a shape and vents modeled after the Arai Corsair V and, presumably, a much lighter weight, the RC would become, in our opinion, the most desirable bike helmet on the market, if Arai decides t...
07 December 2009
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Arai RX-Q: an RX-7 for the street
Arai claims it's taken everything it knows about making a super lightweight, super ventilated race helmet, everything it knows about making a comfortable, high quality road helmet and combined the best of both into the new Arai RX-Q. Headlining the new features are an extremely wide visor aperture, specially constructed cheekpads that now cradle your head from below in the aim of drastically impro...
13 November 2009