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Have had an Airoh GP500 Drive Black for about 4 months now. Dont have the photographs on me, and am out of town for a bit.
I wasnt actually planning on buying the GP500, i had my sights on the Metal Man from SOL. As luck would have it, ended up at Bachoo with a friend to "take a look". i hadnt even budgeted for the GP500. Anyways, got to the store, looked at the more affordable range and then Zulfi at Bachoo motors sad that they had recd some stock of GP500. Always wanted to know what made them so expensive. He took out the Drive Black helmet with the box. It looked absolutely bland on the cover, that was until he opened the box and took the piece out. He too was a bit perplexed with the product because unlike the cover, all the chequered areas on the helmet had a dual paint scheme. It appeared green on some angles and purple at other angles. i was already sold to owning one, only hassle was the budget. Worked that out by the evening and bought the GP500 home. Had to tell my wife it cost just 8000, otherwise the helmet and i would have spent the night with the bike in the Garage
As for reviews. The helmet is bloody light, feels very snug on my head, as a helmet should. Vents do a good job of keeping you cool when on the move, but come to a standstill in Mumbai, given the humidity and heat in summers, u do get a complimentary Sauna. In pune though its a lot more bearable.
As for what makes it so expensive, well honestly, i dont know. Its light, its got some cool features such as the SQRC code stickers, which give you the option of recording some important info, such as who to contact in the event of an accident, blood group etc, and can be accessed by anyone with a smart phone running a QR Code app. Its got emergency Cheek pad removal option, so that in an accident, one doesnt have the yank the helmet off, just pull the tabs as the cheekpads come off, making it easier to remove the helmet, i am sure it would help in the event of a spine/head injury. Lastly the Visor, its thicker than most of the other helmets available. It come with a pinlock arrangement to mount an antifog screen on the inside and this really works, Riding in the last monsoon, i never had the inside of the helmet fogging up even once, irrespective of whether i was stopped at a signal or on the move. And provisions of fitting tear off screens on the fron t of the visor(usually used on dirt tracks), but helps when on the highway run, u dont have to stop and wipe your visor, risking scratching the surface..
Cons - nothing really, except that after spending a bomb on these helmets, u expect the wind noise to be negligible if not absent. But, that is not so, at speeds it gets a bit noisy inside. A fix with earplugs helps.
On the whole i am quite happy with the buy, though i never thought i would own one of these helmets...
Have had an Airoh GP500 Drive Black for about 4 months now. Dont have the photographs on me, and am out of town for a bit.
I wasnt actually planning on buying the GP500, i had my sights on the Metal Man from SOL. As luck would have it, ended up at Bachoo with a friend to "take a look". i hadnt even budgeted for the GP500. Anyways, got to the store, looked at the more affordable range and then Zulfi at Bachoo motors sad that they had recd some stock of GP500. Always wanted to know what made them so expensive. He took out the Drive Black helmet with the box. It looked absolutely bland on the cover, that was until he opened the box and took the piece out. He too was a bit perplexed with the product because unlike the cover, all the chequered areas on the helmet had a dual paint scheme. It appeared green on some angles and purple at other angles. i was already sold to owning one, only hassle was the budget. Worked that out by the evening and bought the GP500 home. Had to tell my wife it cost just 8000, otherwise the helmet and i would have spent the night with the bike in the Garage
As for reviews. The helmet is bloody light, feels very snug on my head, as a helmet should. Vents do a good job of keeping you cool when on the move, but come to a standstill in Mumbai, given the humidity and heat in summers, u do get a complimentary Sauna. In pune though its a lot more bearable.
As for what makes it so expensive, well honestly, i dont know. Its light, its got some cool features such as the SQRC code stickers, which give you the option of recording some important info, such as who to contact in the event of an accident, blood group etc, and can be accessed by anyone with a smart phone running a QR Code app. Its got emergency Cheek pad removal option, so that in an accident, one doesnt have the yank the helmet off, just pull the tabs as the cheekpads come off, making it easier to remove the helmet, i am sure it would help in the event of a spine/head injury. Lastly the Visor, its thicker than most of the other helmets available. It come with a pinlock arrangement to mount an antifog screen on the inside and this really works, Riding in the last monsoon, i never had the inside of the helmet fogging up even once, irrespective of whether i was stopped at a signal or on the move. And provisions of fitting tear off screens on the fron t of the visor(usually used on dirt tracks), but helps when on the highway run, u dont have to stop and wipe your visor, risking scratching the surface..
Cons - nothing really, except that after spending a bomb on these helmets, u expect the wind noise to be negligible if not absent. But, that is not so, at speeds it gets a bit noisy inside. A fix with earplugs helps.
On the whole i am quite happy with the buy, though i never thought i would own one of these helmets...
Most helmets do come with optically correct visors, some-times it's just a sales gimmick just to use optically corrected visors to their portfolio. That being said, not all of them are true optically corrected visors, lots of helmets out there still do have plain visors, or tinted locally made etc.
But regards to your post, I guess I happen to read somewhere in this forum, where a guy happen to paint his helmets, as they are professional and they have a website of it too. 
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