New Arai Helmet Finally Arrives!
Got home from work today and what should appear in the entry way but a nice big brown box from the UPS man. I had to of course rip it open like a kid on Christmas and immediately try on my new lid. This Arai helmet is the highest quality helmet I have ever seen and I have seen a good deal. The fit and finish are excellent and it feels really light on my head which was really important to me. The visor mechanism is SOOO nice compared to my current helmet but no matter what I do I seem to fog up the visor so I am going to have to look into getting an anti-fog one before the season starts. Can imagine much worse than fogging up heading into the kink. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /><br />
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Next step is to shoot the helmet off to Mike Charness (http://www.helmet-painting.com/) to get her painted to look just like the Trackpedia helmet design contest winners vision. She should be once sweet looking lid as well as be comfortable as all hell on the track. Pictures below of the new helmet next to my current one and the new paint job (grey is chrome).<br />
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A big thanks goes out to Tom Shelton Jr. for organizing the group buy of the helmets and putting up with all of us whining. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /><br />
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