I ride a motorbike and have always bought full face helmets…
When first shopping for a lid I was looking at the new open face style as some of them look cool, and full face seemed a bit overkill for buzzing round london on the scooter.
The guy in the shop pulled out from under the counter a full face helmet that he was wearing when he fell off a couple of weeks before and the chin part was completley smashed.. He explained that had he been wearing an open face lid he would be missing his lower jaw!!!
Also with an open face lid you have a plastic visor which if you hit the road face first would implode resulting in shards of plastic entering your eyes at high velocity.
Full face me thinks!!
