so my theory with canada post as of this morning has subsided because they did
manage to drop off my helmet to the local post office which frankly isn't
that close to our office it's like ah
it's a good 10 15 minute drive and
you know whatever anyway i don't care my helmet
is here which means i can ride my bike this weekend
and that is all that matters yes i had
to take off from the office for uh about 40 minutes to go pick it up
but my boss will never know unless he watches this video in which
case he will know so whatever
all right well there's my invoice so as you can see helmets are quite expensive
this is a shoei rf 1100 monolith helmet
so the color i got is tc5 and you'll see the design on it in a few minutes here
but um you know what there really isn't uh there really isn't a price when it
comes to protecting your head so uh i went with whatever fit i did try on
quite a few different brands of helmets i didn't go straight for the shoei because they are pretty expensive
but um you have to find something that a
comes in a size that fits you really snug and b has a shape that's
appropriate for your head so there's the cheek pads and you know what why don't
we we'll put on the helmet and i'll explain the fit as we do that so it just
comes in a in a plain box uh it's for safety evidently okay
monolith tc5 so it's a silver and black
i'm a size small in case anyone was wondering my helmet size uh the fit on
this helmet is actually quite similar in my experience to the scorpion
uh x0700 and um i believe the xl1000
uses the same shell as well so if you fit the shoei rf 1100 quite well you'll
probably also fit the scorpion but i didn't find a place to try on the
scorpion until i had already ordered this one
so live and learn the scorpion is actually a few hundred dollars cheaper
but it doesn't have quite the same technology that goes into the manufacture as
a showy helmet does so here we are how to use your helmet properly there's a
little manual read it before use it comes in a variety of different languages
there's a warning okay thank you for purchasing
and wow they've okay here so it shows you how to put it on shows you how to
check the retention strap okay that's fine and then we've got uh wow more
instructions look at that so oh it shows you all the different
vents okay so there's lots of different vents in this helmet and you open up the
vents if you want to well get more ventilation it shows you the way to use
the quick release system for the visor how to remove and fix it
how to let me see what else how to remove the interior you can actually remove the
entire interior of this helmet and wash it if you want you should use shampoo to
wash a helmet not detergents because it will be up against your hair on a fairly
regular basis okay how to put it back together installing the chin strap cover it has a
breath guard as well so there's probably something in here about yeah installing
the chin curtain how to replace the lower air intake wow
there's this is actually like look at this this is pretty in depth it's
hardcore okay that's the end of the english section all right so that's it
for the documentation there's a couple accessories here i wish i could tell you
exactly what these are but i'm gonna have to go through it later
this is probably sits here somewhere and this might be a breath guard of some
sort i'm not sure let's just get the helmet out and then
we will we will know everything for certain at that time
so it comes in a nice little baggie which could hold a gym strip later on
down the road when you do not need to store your helmet in the baggie all the
time see it's actually kind of a nice little bag got a little drawstring there
and there is my helmet
so uh you know why don't we just kind of look at the overall sort of fit and
finish i mean i guess there's nothing here that's
really beyond expectations this is how most of the vents work they're just
little sliders like that so you can either open them up or close them okay
so i believe the front one works in a manner that is quite similar there you
go so you can either open that up and get some more ventilation to close it
and then there are exhaust ports in the back which you also need to
open up should you require more head cooling so oh let's talk about the
safety safety approvals that are on here so it's dot which basically means that it
has passed the basic safety for helmet use in north america but it's also
approved by the snell i think it's the snell foundation or something like that
and snell means that it meets the dot approvals except better so snell is
basically a tighter certification there's also a new one that's come out
and that's more of a european standard but some helmets are coming with those
as well it is made in japan all right
it's got the shoei branding here i chose the monolith helmet because
i like the graphic on it it's not quite all black so it's going to be
a little bit easier to see than something that's really really dark but
it also has a little bit of white on it so it will be a little bit more visible
i guess i could put it on oh we can check out the inside so there's the
inside there's all the different paddings and whatnot there's some
warnings at the back and uh okay here why don't we put it on then
ah we can talk a little bit about the fit as well so
there we are so helmet should come down right to your brow pretty much when you
move it around you should actually see the skin on your brow move so you're not
you're not moving the helmet around on your head you're actually moving the
skin with it that's how you know you have a snug enough fit i hope you can
hear me okay okay so i'll pull that down and
cameraman says yes thank you cameraman also the cheek pads should be quite
tight now bear in mind you can buy replacement cheek pads so if the head
fits all the way around and you don't feel any pressure points with the helmet
snugly down on your head then you know you have the right fit up here but if
your cheeks are loose and you can wiggle it side to side then what you can do is
you can actually buy thicker cheek pads or if you find your face incredibly
squished then you can actually get smaller ones so uh let me just go ahead
and put that down i can't see any oh yeah you probably can't hear me when i
close that i can't see anything because of the sticker but there's the helmet
and uh so i'm super stoked to go riding this weekend and thank you for checking
out Linus tech tips cameraman is telling me to do something oh he wants me to put
this down again
cameraman is uh fascinated by the springs and gears and all the different
little uh workings of the helmet on the side here for the visor so there's a
couple different features i can show you here first of all is this one right here
so if you push it down like that it opens up the helmet just a tiny crack so
that's for when you want just the tiniest little bit of ventilation but
you want it mostly closed like say for example when it's raining so then you
put it back back normal and then there's actually a locking mechanism now where
you can lock the helmet down into the position that it's in so uh
i don't know if the lock actually yeah yeah that'll oh no no it only works
when it's all the way closed so the lock only works when it's closed and then
there's the little feature to to crack it open a little bit so there you go
that is the visor feature i haven't showed how to use the quick release
because frankly i don't know i think it's something to do with this side
but i'm sure the instructions will tell me more
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