I think it might be time to break out my \u201cwinter\u201d helmet. I was up in the mountains over the weekend and it was shirt-sleeve weather on the way up, but by the time I came home around midnight it had gotten pretty damn cold. (Well, cold by SoCal standards: 45 degrees or so). That made it not only not shirt-sleeve weather, but also not open-face helmet weather. I couldn\u2019t feel my face!<\/p>\n
All summer long I\u2019ve been wearing a Fulmer V2<\/a> helmet (the flat black model) which is a 3\/4 helmet with an open face. It\u2019s very light, comfortable, looks retro-cool, and I like it a lot \u2014 but not at 45 degrees. During our rainy season here in SoCal (like the song says: \u201cIt never rains in California \u2026 it pours, man, it pours\u201d) I wear a flip-face helmet because A) raindrops hurt at 85 mph, and B) when it rains out here, it\u2019s cold. That helmet would be a KBC FFR<\/a>, which I highly recommend. It\u2019s lightweight, comfortable, it flips up and locks open solidly with one hand, and it does a fine job of keeping the cold and rain off my delicate face. I wish I\u2019d been wearing it Saturday night.<\/p>\n It\u2019s warmed up again so the Fulmer\u2019s still up to the task, but I\u2019m watching the forecast. If it gets cold again I\u2019m breaking out the FFR. I\u2019m too pretty to be that cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think it might be time to break out my \u201cwinter\u201d helmet. I was up in the mountains over the weekend and it was shirt-sleeve weather on the way up, but by the time I came home around midnight it had gotten pretty damn cold. (Well, cold by SoCal standards: 45 degrees or so). That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}