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Syko Helmets coming to the US

Posted by Kenn Stamp
Monday, 06 August 2007
Page 2 of 2 Here we have the SYKO Yakuza, a pretty helmet if I do say so myself. This helmet was DOT certified and noticeably heftier than the Comet. It of course also had the standard D-ring for the chin strap. I wore this helmet to work even though it didn't fit my head as well as the Comet. The Yakuza seems to be more of round design instead of a long oval. It wasn't as bad as some other round designs as it didn't give me too much of the old red mark on the forehead that some helmets do (you know the mark I mean). FYI, in the view from the rear the lines are really not that wavy looking in real life. Apparently, the camera angle and lighting distorted them quite a bit. The Yakuza is definitely a sportier looking helmet than the Comet especially with those two big vents on top. Once again though, the air movement was just not there. Those of us that buy helmets in this price range are used to that though, so no real blame on SYKO's part any more than on any other lower priced helmet manufacturer. Those big vents up top do produce some higher pitched noise from the turbulence they cause. It still wasn't as bad as my KBC VR-2 that I wear most of the time, but it was louder inside than the Comet. This helmet was sent to me with a very dark tinted shield on it compared to the clear shield on the Comet. I really like dark tinted shields so I swapped it onto the Comet when wore that helmet. Which brings me to the shield mechanism. Having never seen one of these helmets before I was still able to remove and replace the shield (the clear one) in about 15 seconds flat. The tinted one takes maybe twice as long because you can't see what the heck you're doing. You rotate the shield to the full up position, press a little arm in, and pull the shield off that side. Do the same thing on the other side. Voila! You have removed the shield. To put it back on, just snap in one side, press the arm in again to lock it over the tab, do the same thing to the other side and go riding. Easy as pie. Here is the inside view of the Yakuza. It looks and feels much plusher than the Comet does on the inside which leads me to believe that it will probably be more expensive. In lower priced helmets you sometimes have to make allowances in certain aspects of quality. Usually two of the things that you don't get are clear coated graphics and fully removable liners. Guess what? You get them in these helmets! Yep, both helmets have fully removable liners AND the graphics are under a layer of clear coat. I was very surprised when I first took them out of the box and saw that I couldn't feel any ridges where the lines of the stickers were. Very impressive. Keeping in mind that these were only loaner/demo helmets I wanted to be very careful about what I pulled apart on them. I decided to see how easy the cheek pads came out, so I unsnapped them and out they came. This of course led to me taking a closer look at the liner itself. Lo and behold it came right out too! These helmets seem to be worth a look as they will be value priced helmets with some not so value priced features. Pricing will be: DOT: $79.00 - $119.00 SNELL: $129.00 - $159.00 The fine folks at brakeplanet.com are the distributors for SYKO helmets and will be getting the DOT and SNELL certified helmets in around the end of August or beginning of September. Talk about SYKO helmets here. << Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>

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