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so my theory with canada post as of this morning has subsided because they did

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manage to drop off my helmet to the local post office which frankly isn't

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that close to our office it's like ah

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it's a good 10 15 minute drive and

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you know whatever anyway i don't care my helmet

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is here which means i can ride my bike this weekend

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and that is all that matters yes i had

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to take off from the office for uh about 40 minutes to go pick it up

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but my boss will never know unless he watches this video in which

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case he will know so whatever

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all right well there's my invoice so as you can see helmets are quite expensive

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this is a shoei rf 1100 monolith helmet

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so the color i got is tc5 and you'll see the design on it in a few minutes here

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but um you know what there really isn't uh there really isn't a price when it

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comes to protecting your head so uh i went with whatever fit i did try on

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quite a few different brands of helmets i didn't go straight for the shoei because they are pretty expensive

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but um you have to find something that a

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comes in a size that fits you really snug and b has a shape that's

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appropriate for your head so there's the cheek pads and you know what why don't

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we we'll put on the helmet and i'll explain the fit as we do that so it just

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comes in a in a plain box uh it's for safety evidently okay

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monolith tc5 so it's a silver and black

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i'm a size small in case anyone was wondering my helmet size uh the fit on

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this helmet is actually quite similar in my experience to the scorpion

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uh x0700 and um i believe the xl1000

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uses the same shell as well so if you fit the shoei rf 1100 quite well you'll

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probably also fit the scorpion but i didn't find a place to try on the

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scorpion until i had already ordered this one

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so live and learn the scorpion is actually a few hundred dollars cheaper

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but it doesn't have quite the same technology that goes into the manufacture as

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a showy helmet does so here we are how to use your helmet properly there's a

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little manual read it before use it comes in a variety of different languages

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there's a warning okay thank you for purchasing

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and wow they've okay here so it shows you how to put it on shows you how to

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check the retention strap okay that's fine and then we've got uh wow more

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instructions look at that so oh it shows you all the different

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vents okay so there's lots of different vents in this helmet and you open up the

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vents if you want to well get more ventilation it shows you the way to use

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the quick release system for the visor how to remove and fix it

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how to let me see what else how to remove the interior you can actually remove the

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entire interior of this helmet and wash it if you want you should use shampoo to

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wash a helmet not detergents because it will be up against your hair on a fairly

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regular basis okay how to put it back together installing the chin strap cover it has a

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breath guard as well so there's probably something in here about yeah installing

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the chin curtain how to replace the lower air intake wow

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there's this is actually like look at this this is pretty in depth it's

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hardcore okay that's the end of the english section all right so that's it

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for the documentation there's a couple accessories here i wish i could tell you

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exactly what these are but i'm gonna have to go through it later

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this is probably sits here somewhere and this might be a breath guard of some

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sort i'm not sure let's just get the helmet out and then

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we will we will know everything for certain at that time

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so it comes in a nice little baggie which could hold a gym strip later on

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down the road when you do not need to store your helmet in the baggie all the

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time see it's actually kind of a nice little bag got a little drawstring there

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and there is my helmet

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so uh you know why don't we just kind of look at the overall sort of fit and

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finish i mean i guess there's nothing here that's

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really beyond expectations this is how most of the vents work they're just

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little sliders like that so you can either open them up or close them okay

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so i believe the front one works in a manner that is quite similar there you

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go so you can either open that up and get some more ventilation to close it

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and then there are exhaust ports in the back which you also need to

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open up should you require more head cooling so oh let's talk about the

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safety safety approvals that are on here so it's dot which basically means that it

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has passed the basic safety for helmet use in north america but it's also

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approved by the snell i think it's the snell foundation or something like that

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and snell means that it meets the dot approvals except better so snell is

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basically a tighter certification there's also a new one that's come out

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and that's more of a european standard but some helmets are coming with those

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as well it is made in japan all right

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it's got the shoei branding here i chose the monolith helmet because

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i like the graphic on it it's not quite all black so it's going to be

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a little bit easier to see than something that's really really dark but

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it also has a little bit of white on it so it will be a little bit more visible

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i guess i could put it on oh we can check out the inside so there's the

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inside there's all the different paddings and whatnot there's some

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warnings at the back and uh okay here why don't we put it on then

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ah we can talk a little bit about the fit as well so

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there we are so helmet should come down right to your brow pretty much when you

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move it around you should actually see the skin on your brow move so you're not

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you're not moving the helmet around on your head you're actually moving the

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skin with it that's how you know you have a snug enough fit i hope you can

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hear me okay okay so i'll pull that down and

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cameraman says yes thank you cameraman also the cheek pads should be quite

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tight now bear in mind you can buy replacement cheek pads so if the head

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fits all the way around and you don't feel any pressure points with the helmet

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snugly down on your head then you know you have the right fit up here but if

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your cheeks are loose and you can wiggle it side to side then what you can do is

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you can actually buy thicker cheek pads or if you find your face incredibly

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squished then you can actually get smaller ones so uh let me just go ahead

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and put that down i can't see any oh yeah you probably can't hear me when i

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close that i can't see anything because of the sticker but there's the helmet

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and uh so i'm super stoked to go riding this weekend and thank you for checking

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out Linus tech tips cameraman is telling me to do something oh he wants me to put

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this down again

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cameraman is uh fascinated by the springs and gears and all the different

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little uh workings of the helmet on the side here for the visor so there's a

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couple different features i can show you here first of all is this one right here

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so if you push it down like that it opens up the helmet just a tiny crack so

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that's for when you want just the tiniest little bit of ventilation but

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you want it mostly closed like say for example when it's raining so then you

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put it back back normal and then there's actually a locking mechanism now where

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you can lock the helmet down into the position that it's in so uh

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i don't know if the lock actually yeah yeah that'll oh no no it only works

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when it's all the way closed so the lock only works when it's closed and then

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there's the little feature to to crack it open a little bit so there you go

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that is the visor feature i haven't showed how to use the quick release

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because frankly i don't know i think it's something to do with this side

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but i'm sure the instructions will tell me more

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