Met Parachute Helmet - any good?

spodomodo
spodomodo Posts: 48
edited May 2010 in MTB buying advice
Don't want/need a full face helmet - but this looks like a possible half way between that and an ordinary helmet - which would be good for the sort of riding that I'm begining to do much more of - but is it any good?

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  • lock1981
    lock1981 Posts: 546
    i asked this nquestion about a year a go and most said no!

    i didnt get one either so personally dont know,but i did see a pic of a guy who face planted and got the shattered plastic chin thingy sticking out his face.

    i got a hex :D

    oh and when i tried one on it didnt sit very good on my bonce. met have a small fit helmet and i have a large mellon :oops:
  • spodomodo
    spodomodo Posts: 48
    Thanks for that. It's one of those things that looks like it could be a good idea - but if it is why hasn't it caught on?

    I've got a Zen - no complaints really - just gettin worried about smashin' me face in - must be getting old or something!

    S
  • lock1981
    lock1981 Posts: 546
    :lol:
  • JamesBrckmn
    JamesBrckmn Posts: 1,360
    why hasn't it caught on?
    a guy who face planted got the shattered plastic chin thingy sticking out his face.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    I've just bought myself a Specialized Deviant Carbon.

    It was a choice between that or the Casco Viper, but with the Deviant, I can still enter DH races if I want to (I'm only on a HT, so I'll never be doing any particularly gnarly DH).

    It's not arrived yet so I cant say how cool it is against regular and FF helmets, but I guess it's going to be somewhere inbetween.
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    lock1981 wrote:
    i didnt get one either so personally dont know,but i did see a pic of a guy who face planted and got the shattered plastic chin thingy sticking out his face.

    People love that pic but if he hit hard enough to do that he'd probably have been hurt anyway, you can't just say "Oh, the Parachute caused him to be injured", you have to wonder what injury it might have prevented. Broken jaw, permanent face scarring, loss of teeth etc.

    I don't like the things, seem to reduce the risk of facial injury at the expense of increasing the risk of spinal injury but they do seem to work, I've seen some proper crashes with them (faceplant off the woodwork in glentress freeride park was a good one) and they've done what they're supposed to each time. But I wouldn't wear one. If it's evil looking enough that I want a full face I'd get a real full face.
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  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 4,909
    TBH just get a proper full face and keep your hex.

    For the price of a parachute you could get something like a 661 evolution.

    You would have a full face for when you need to feel brave but you would still have the hex for those calmer rides.
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Well, the idea of the Parachute is that you can ride it like you would an XC helmet, it's definately not a fullface replacement.
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  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 4,909
    Northwind wrote:
    Well, the idea of the Parachute is that you can ride it like you would an XC helmet, it's definitely not a fullface replacement.

    I know it isn't.

    But thats what I do, have you not noticed half the time I am wearing a full face, the other half a pisspot :roll:

    All I'm trying to say is, judge what you are about to do and then make the descision and think, do I need a full face or not.

    The parachute still won't be perfect ventilation wise because there is still something infront of your mouth. Thats the only problem I find with me evo, it sometimes gets difficult to breath on the ups because of this
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Your head goes bright red when you're doing trail riding in the full face :lol: It's ace.
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  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 4,909
    My head goes bright red in the pisspot as well :roll:

    I am just a really hot guy :lol:
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  • JamesBrckmn
    JamesBrckmn Posts: 1,360
    and obviously not fit
  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 4,909
    JamesBrckmn wrote:
    and obviously not fit

    I have a reasonable fitness.

    I can normally beat Northwind to the top of a hill with him on a hardtail and me on a full sus
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    My leg's held on with bolts though so that does slow me a little :lol:
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  • JamesBrckmn
    JamesBrckmn Posts: 1,360
    :lol: you could get some lightweight titanium bolts from superstar to speed you up :lol:
  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 4,909
    Northwind wrote:
    My leg's held on with bolts though so that does slow me a little :lol:

    And how do you know mine aren't :wink:
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    JamesBrckmn wrote:
    :lol: you could get some lightweight titanium bolts from superstar to speed you up :lol:

    I was a bit peeved to discover they were just steel. Fitted with a draper torque wrench :(
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  • peter413
    peter413 Posts: 4,909
    Northwind wrote:
    JamesBrckmn wrote:
    :lol: you could get some lightweight titanium bolts from superstar to speed you up :lol:

    I was a bit peeved to discover they were just steel. Fitted with a draper torque wrench :(

    At least they used a torque wrench :roll:
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