• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Bell Moto 9 Flex (specific) and for comparo Moto 9 as well.

robertaccio said:
Vemar is also on my short list
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I've always wanted to try a Vemar for fit, but no one stocks them.
The Nexx(only have seen the DS model) is a very nice helmet, I've tried on the Touratech version, really lite. For a while you could buy the Nexx in Europe quite a bit cheaper than stateside, but now it has evened out some.
 
racemx904 said:
Dont like the China thing throw you.... they are not the best innovators but they are great copiers..... most helmets nowadays are made in china....
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Sorry, that doesn't work for me. It's true we consume so much plastic junk now we have to get other countries to make it for us, but most of the motivations for big companies to produce in China/Asia are overpaid exec's and greedy shareholders. I'm not willing to pay top dollar for goods made by what basically amounts to slave labor.
robertaccio said:
yes but ALL good helmets are made elsewhere.
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So where are those Airoh helmets made? And Vemar? I appreciate your comments and look forward to how this works out.

:cheers:
 
A short Robertaccio history/trivia read.
Airoh and VEMAR are both made in Italy (at least their top of the line helmets are).
But in looking I don't see the VEMAR VEX9 (1250grams) on their Italian website, I'm thinking its discontinued.
The Motonation boss (Bill B) is over there now and I'm sure he will have news from them (Vemar) concerning new developments.
VEMAR Vetroresine Maremme Glass Resin of Maremma (fibre glass) from Maremma
http://www.vemarhelmets.it/section/vemar_helmets/1100/index.htm
Maremma region of Tuscany along the coast famous for Italian "cowboys" that herd Maremanne cattle (ex wife from Grosseto).
http://www.discovertuscany.com/it/maremma/
Maremanna cattle.
http://eng.agraria.org/cattle/maremmana.htm
the best part....Bistecca Fiorentina (fat T Bone Florentine style steak from Tuscan Maremma Cattle)

Airoh - Aviator 2.1 (@1000grams) super light!!! ECE spec FIM/AMA legal
http://www.airoh.com/helmets/off_road/aviator_2.1/six_days_2015#more-1

My fave helmet above.
from "inside" info Airoh=Antonio Italian research of helmets- CEO Antonio Locatelli

OK now back to Bell!!

Bell
Airoh
VEMAR
UFO
all on my short list, friend going to Italia in the next month or 2 so, so got an angle to procure an Airoh Aviator 2.1......and stay superleggera
 
Really want to try UFO. Arai is hands down my favorite but airohs sound real nice because they vent so well and are light. Bell seems like its a happy medium
 
racemx904 said: ↑
Dont like the China thing throw you.... they are not the best innovators but they are great copiers..... most helmets nowadays are made in china....​
Sorry, that doesn't work for me. It's true we consume so much plastic junk now we have to get other countries to make it for us, but most of the motivations for big companies to produce in China/Asia are overpaid exec's and greedy shareholders. I'm not willing to pay top dollar for goods made by what basically amounts to slave labor.

Their not using "slave" labor.... thats almost funny..... TOTAL AUTOMATION.... it made most crap hole factories in the US to be just that...

Bell needs to step up and make a good light helmet for those of us that are neck challenged.....
 
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