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so my Fury 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 that'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 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 you know what there really isn't there's really isn't a price when it comes to protecting your head so I went with whatever fit I did try on quite a few different brands of helmets I didn't go straight for the showi because they are pretty expensive but you have to find something that a comes in a size that fits you really snug and beat 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 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 by the fit on this helmet is actually quite similar in my experience to the Scorpion EXO 700 and I believe the XL 1000 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 as a showy helmet does so here we are how do you use your helmet properly there's a little you will 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 shows you how to put it on shows you how to check the retention strap okay that's fine and then we've got 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 could 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 chinstrap 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 hard bar okay that's the end of the English section alright 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 people 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 okay it's actually kind of a nice little bag got a little drawstring there and there is my helmet so 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 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 these 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 smell I think it's a smell 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 thumb helmets are coming with those as well it is made in Japan all right it's got the showi branding here I chose the model of helmet because I like the graphic on it it's not quite all black so it's gonna 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 guess I could put it on oh we can check out the inside so there's the inside there's all the different padding's and whatnot there's some warnings at the back and all right here why don't we put it on then we can talk a little bit about the fit as well so 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 a replacement cheek pad 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 let me just go ahead okay 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 so I'm super stoked to go riding this weekend and they can protect me yell Dinah's tech tips cameraman is telling me to do something oh he wants me to put this down again cameraman is fascinated by the Springs and gears and all the different little 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 I don't know if the lock actually yeah yeah oh nope 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 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 don't forget to subscribe