Rjays Dakar Helmets
 

here in australia ive seen a new rjays dakar helmet for sale, have tried it on and does nice and comfortable just wondered if anyone else has got one and what do think of it..i have full face with goggles just looking to go full face?

pommie

I bought one 9 months ago.
 

Pommie, having gone through this exercise here is MHO.

The cons:
Very noisy at high speed (90km+).
Under the visor is like a sub visor that catches the wind and whistles, I think it is a brace for the peak.
I have never removed the visor so no comment on if it fixes the problem noise, though it probably does.
I was tossing up between a large and a med. Glad I went with the medium because the foam packs down very quickly, so a flew rides in a tight helmet and it is snug, no longer tight.
Two things I noticed in it with the face shield closed:
* A lot of distortion where the screen curves, which takes a bit to get used to, so you tend to turn your head alot more to look directly at things in the edges of your vision. Riding around Wootton a lot of suicidal skippies sit on the side of the road waiting to hop out. They appear to move as your line of sight tracks across the distortion, cars at interstions are fine because the whole car isn't in the distortion at once, but a pedestian standing waiting at lights does. Try this out at the shop before you spend your cash.
* They don't flow air well so you flip it up and down in traffic a lot. Just to get air and stop from misting up and the lug centre not to the side. I like a side lug because I don't really like riding with my hand in front of my face, even for a fraction of a second.

The Pros
They are about a third the cost of top brands.

Alternatives:
Zeus 2100B - about the same money, better visor, less abrupt curve to sceen, didn't fit my head as good may fit yours better.
IICON Variant Dual Sport - seem narrow my head was too wide to fit in comfortable.
Shoei DS Hornet Dual Sport - Best fit, no distortion, when I looked just short of a grand but have come down in price heaps this year.
RXT Rallye - Don't quote me but appear to be cheap and nasty (and from memmory were made somewhere that you immediately think of as of helment manufactures, was it Burma, Tibet, India???), when on my head it felt funny in the way it was weighted, like it was wanted to pull my back.

Overall
The Rjays are not too bad, I have a cheap head so a cheap helmet suits me. If I have the extra $$$ I would buy the Shoei.

just to add
 

I am incrediably myopic, and my clear scripted glasses are far worse than the polarised (extactly the same script) sun glasses for distortion through the screen.