New Arai Tour X
 

Hello,

If you in the market for a Tour X then there's a new one coming out soon.

Pheonix Distribution allegedly have then in stock, but aren't releasing them until they have shifted the rest of the old stock.

I've been told it will be May/June before there on sale.

Here's a look see at the new one:

http://www.arai.co.jp/jpn/offtrial/tx2_c_wh_f.htm



Nick.

Nick, did you mean that plain white one as in the pic? That has been out for ages?!?

Capt,

Are you sure? Where have you seen one for sale?

They were launched at the NEC in December.

It's not the same as the current Tour X, new shell, new peak, new vents and a few other bits.

Its called a Tour Cross 2 in Japan, but I've seen it refered to a Tour X 3 here.

Brian Gray have it on their website, but It's not available yet.


Nick.

The only new Arai Tour-X I've seen recently is the one in KTM colours. Looks good but for the price I paid for mine (�350) I'll be using mine for a few more years.

BTW. Shoei have just brought out a new lid in the same style as the Tour-X. Looks good.

Yes, the Shoei does look nice, but the last time I tried I didn't have a 'Shoei head'. Not sure if they have some other shell shapes these days.

I'll hang out for the new Tour X I think, only a few months to wait. My current Arai is a bit old date wise, but had very little use in that time, so I'm happy that it's safe enough.


Nick.

The plain white one that I have seen must be an old model then, they sold them in J&S accessories ages ago, and there is an old bloke that rides an Honda Dominator, who works close to my office, he has had that one for longer than I can remember.

I am considering changing my lid as the one I have is cheap and fogs up to easy. Can anyone advise me on the good/bad points if any. Also best place in their experience to buy from? I love the look but what matters to me is it does not fog easily, has to be as quiet as a helmet can be, the peak I think would create noise.

I would have to save a while to raise the cash for it but it certainly looks awesome.

Edit: Forget my post! Just had a look in this section and my answers are there....

One downside to a lid with a peak is it does catch the wind a bit which can straighten your back thus straighten your arms and cause a high speed weave. I suffer a bit with the high speed weave although it's not as bad now I've got a bigger screen on my bike. I am talking around the ton mark.

On a plus point, the peak is very good in low sunlight and it is good when you can see where your going :icon_biggrin:. The Arai Tour-X still looks quite good without the peak as well.

The best bit is it makes you look quite intimidating which I must add, so does the XTX (tall bike, loud, headlight set up a bit higher than it should be). I like scaring the cages around my way. Well it's better than them scaring me, innit. :incon_aargh[1]:

Shoei Hornet
 

Here is the link to the shoei hornet-ds. It uses a pin-lock visor as in their other helmets.

http://www.shoei-europe.com/hornet/

Ive always wanted a tour x helmet from since they came out but i find that for that price it is very expensive, (�300 for a plain colour) and heard alot of bad points about the Tour X leaking around the rubbers, noise, some bad fitments on peaks etc etc. I know these may be 1 offs or just the way this type of helmet is. Also i have tried a few Tour X's on and always find that the fore head pad is very itchy as the stiching rubbs on my fore head.

At the moment i will keep my Arai Condor and wait till next year to deside wheather i get a on/off road lid for africa or just get an off road lid and take it too spain, leave me Condor with some one while i go play in africa.

The new shoei does look nice i seen a few pictures of it, and you get a pin lock free, and i think a wee skirt for the bottom of it to reduce noise when on the road and possibly a few other tasties for �10 less than the Arai Tour X. But again i have problems if the liner is like the normal shoei liners it makes my head and face itch and doesnt feel as comfy as my Condor

Yeah that's the one I looked at.

Now a pin-lock visor is something that's missing on the Arai. I tried an anti mist insert on my Arai and it fowls the top of the opening on the front. You also only get 1 maybe 2 attempts at fitting one to an Arai visor because they are stick on.

It would be nice to fit a tinted anti mist insert with a pin lock and then when night falls change it to a clear one. Which ever one your not using you can keep it in an old sock under your seat. No can do with an Arai. :BangHead:

Yea read about/heard that on the Long way down they would have problems with the visors misting up, you think Arai being a good company could come up with an oe visor that doesnt mist up. My condor one misted like a bit+h on heat when i got it, but bought meself a pin lock and never hand any problems now with the visor misting only my glasses

Wonder if pin lock do glasses inserts???

The new style Tour X has a pin-lock visor.

Not sure if it will be backward complatible with the current Tour X??


Nick.

BTW.....

Can't you get a kit to put an pin-lock in any visor?


Nick.

Whats a pin lock visor?

http://www.phoenixnw.co.uk/pinlock.html

You can be it involues you drilling into your nice visor to place the pins in the visor but if you get is slightly wrong it doesnt work and you have just wasted a good visor and now you have a pin lock insert that will not fit.

Thanks I dont fancy doing that to it cheers chaps!

Shoei Hornet has been around for a while now. I prefer the older version...the new one looks like one of those mutant mask things!

Slightly off topic but if anybody wants a new visor and you don't want to pay top whack then check out http://www.racevisors.co.uk/

They are based in Guernsey so quite a bit cheaper.

But, please note.........

Some of the tinted, coloured and reflective motorcycle helmet visors that Shop Offshore Ltd. sell are not BSI or EC05 approved and are intended for off-road or track use only. It is your responsibility to check with your local authorities the legality of the visors in your area. Use of these visors on the road is legal in Guernsey but not in the UK. Shop Offshore Ltd. cannot be held responsible for any prosecution that arises from the use of these visors in the UK.

I've been smacked in the visor at 100 mph with a rock the size of a golf ball flipped up by a Tuono. Yes it did mark my new visor but didn't shatter.

Yes i once bought a visor a while back from this place, very good and fast deliverly. Only thing was my helmet was crap so after about 4 weeks with nice new visor couldnt live with the helmet anymore (old, smelly, didnt fit the best) so bought meself the arai condor

I've been smacked in the visor at 100 mph with a rock the size of a golf ball flipped up by a Tuono. Yes it did mark my new visor but didn't shatter.
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Kin hell im suprized yer head is still on your sholders :googly[1]:

I forgot to add that I got hit 3 times that night (following 2 Tuonos). The other 2 times were in the chest (Thankfully I had my nylons on that night with armour built in). By the end of the night I had 4 nipples. I keep my distance from my cousin and his mate now cos those tyres they've got are sticky and throw up all sorts of crap.

Not sure what speed the stones were doing but I was flat out behind them. Believe me, it hurts let alone scared the pants off me. :101:

I had a rock the size of Hulk Hogans clenched fist fly up 3 cars/lorrys ahead, start looping down towards my noggin so I swerve last nanosecond (motorway riding 140kmh) hits my bike then my fookin shin...ARGHHHHHH

Had trouble keepin the bike upright, missus didn't see what had happened but thought we were going down cos of the impact!! Didn't have my boots on (sods law) that day and I paid the price, swelled like an oversized grapefruit. Bike needed a new fairing, the radiator still has a dent in the corner :D

#1: Imagine us, sitting in the fanciest pub in England, drinking our Chateau de Chauclea wine.
#2: Right you are, 30 years ago we would have been lucky to have had a cup of tea.
#3: Cold tea.
#2: Yes, without sugar or milk.
#1: Or tea.
#2: In a cracked and filthy cup.
#3: We used to be so poor that we would drink tea out of a rolled-up newspaper.
#2: You were lucky to have a newspaper; we used to have to suck our tea out of a damp cloth.
#1: We were poor, but we were happy.
#3: We were happy because we were poor.
#1: Right you are. My daddy said that money would never buy happiness.
#2: That�s because he never had any money, the bloody beggar.
#3: When I was young, we used to live in a house with big holes in the roof.
#2: You had a house? You were lucky! We used to live in a bottle cap, 23 of us in the middle of the ocean.
#3: Well, I say it was a house, actually it was a room � all 36 of us, and we had only half a floor. We had a big hole in the middle of the floor, and we used to huddle next to the wall for fear we would fall in.
#1: You were lucky! We used to live in a hallway.
#2: Well, you were lucky! We used to live in an abandoned septic tank in the middle of the garbage dump.
#1: You lived in a septic tank? You were lucky! We lived in a paper sack in the bottom of a toxic waste dump. Every morning we would awaken to nuclear waste being dumped on us until we glowed.
#3: Actually, the house I was telling you about was no more than a hole in the ground, covered with twigs.
#2: Well, you were lucky! We were evicted from our hole. We had to live in the bottom of the lake.
#1: You were lucky to live in the bottom of a lake. There were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of a road. We dreamed of living in a lake.
#3: You were lucky to live in a shoebox. We lived in a brown paper bag. All 300 of us! Got up at 6 a.m., ate a crust of stale bread and worked in the mills for 12 hours. When we got home, Dad would beat us and put us to bed with no dinner.
#1: Well you were lucky! We used to get up at 3 a.m., strain the lake clean with our teeth, eat a cup of hot gravel, work 15 hours at the mill and when we got home our dad would beat us about the head and shoulders with a broken beer bottle and use us for kitty litter.
#2: We dreamed of that! We used to live in a rusty tin can in the middle of the road. One hour after sunset we would clean the road with our tongues, eat a handful of cold gravel and work 20 hours at the mill with no pay! When we got home, our dad would cut us up with a dull gensu knife and use us for cheese fondue.
#1: Well, you were lucky! That was luxury. We used to get up in the morning at 10 at night � which was half an hour before we went to bed � eat a hunk of dry poison, work 29 hours a day at the mill and when we got home our parents would kill us and dance around our grave singing �Glory, Glory, Hallelujah."
#3: But you tell that to the kids today and they simply don�t believe you.

That is very random.

Yea had a few stones from my Dads varadero hit me, most on the helmet, dont know why but seemed what ever distance i stayed away they would just flick correctly on to my helmet.

I remember once i got one on the neck when it was a really hot summer i didnt where any neck covering. Very pain full felt like a bee stink or something, didnt know what happened untill i got home and found a wee stone in my jacket.

Also dont follow behind lorries carrying stone to closely, had one hit another rock in the road, fling that up to me and then the load he was carrying near all fell out the back on the lorry. i was :pottytrain4: my self.

Lesson learned

ManicMic wrote I had my nylons on that night! By the end of the night I had 4 nipples.
:drool[1]:I love it when you talk dirty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easy on:101:

Finally got round to buying a new lid.

Went for the new Tour X in the end...


http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1348


Nick.

In my opinion they are a waste of money ,had an Arai road lid (reynolds replica last year ,wore it twice and sold it ,tried a tour x ,lovely and comfortable fit but the road noise and lift of the peak is terrible ,so thought better of it and bought one of these

http://www.riderz.co.uk/product_info...products_id=37

i had a bad accident a few weeks back and this lid saved my life so i will be definetely buying another ,no misting ,road noise is at a minimum ,no lift until 135 mph as i tried it on my aprilia rsvr and best of all you can buy 4 of them for the price of the OVERATED ARAI

who started the saying " buy the best helmet you can afford "


ARAI of course

Nice lids

I think lids are all about personal choice, ive tired a few different helmets on my head and yes arai is one of them and they are very comfy and you also get a very good dealer back up. Like i went to a 20% off everything sale at a local bike dealers place that sells alot of bike gear, they also had a free arai helmet man there. He cleaned my helmet and a mates, taking out all the road grim from the visor mechanism. Also the guy before use had broke something in his visor mech and he just replaced it there and then for free.

I wonder if you get that type of dealer back up with any other helmet???

(and im not just all about arai as ive just bought my self a shoei raid II):BaseballHat_LNY2EG: