HJC Symax

Four years I've been wearing the same helmet, I replaced the helmet liner once, it's been a good helmet. The strap started fraying on the end, and it shows signs of wear. It's an HJC Symax. Well, I met my friend Phil for dinner on the way home... and the helmet opened fine when I got off the bike to meet him. But when it came time to leave, it was locked and wouldn't open. I had to take my glasses off and wear it like a regular full face. Putting my glasses on with the visor open. When I got home, I finally got it open... but one of the latch pins had locked permanently and broken. I guess that's not bad for four years of wear. However, this leaves me with only one helmet, a Shoei full face a friend gifted me. I don't trust the HJC to work right with only one side latched, so I had to break down and get a new one. Almost $200.00 for one in Pearl White like my old one. The HJC Symax II is out, but it's almost $300.00, has silver colored vents. The Symax has had improvements over the one I had, but doesn't have the Symax II internal sun visor but I've read it adds a lot of weight and the visor has to roll up into the shell which makes me wonder if it would mess with the foam in the helmet. So I went and got the same model as before, but it has the new super vent. My semi-new helmet liner will work in the new one when I need it, and my visor, and smaller parts will work as spares on the new helmet. The old one will be confined to it's bag on a shelf in the garage for when I need spare parts.