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I am testing the new style open face helmet "J-Cruise" of SHOEI.
The greatest feature is the same built-in type sun visor as NEOTEC.
When a helmet contains a sun visor,
It is common that enlarge a shell or a shock absorber is made thin.
However, in J-Cruise, a compact and beautiful design and safety are compatible.
Therefore, a part of shell is thick.
This sun visor storage part is a characteristic design.
Thereby, the compact design is realized.
This helmet will acquire the popularity of the owner of a cruiser motorbike or a touring motorbike.
It is fine fundamentally today.
However, there are also many clouds.
Sunlight is also unstable.
I will test this sun visor.
The operation method is the same as that of NEOTEC.
I operate the lever on the left-hand side of a helmet.
Then, I will demonstrate.
This is convenient.
When passing through a tunnel, since this can be used easily, it is very convenient.
Like today, this is available also at the unstable weather.
Moreover, this sun visor has a very high accuracy.
This fulfills the technical standard of European and American sunglasses.
This high precision is rare as a general tools of a helmet.
This has very high convenience.
A visibility without distortion is obtained in all the directions.
It is a very natural visibility.
Contrast is emphasized and all things can be seen clearly.
The windshield was also newly developed for J-Cruise.
Since it was expanded by 10 mm in the up-and-down direction, it protects my whole face.
This windshield also has a very high accuracy.
It is designed so that there may be neither reflection nor distortion.
Therefore, the curvature of a top side and wire side differs delicately.
Moreover, thickness differs partially.
Such delicate tuning is given.
Development of this high precision windshield must have been a big theme like NEOTEC.
A windshield, PINLOCK fog-free sheet, a sun visor, glasses, etc.,
Depending on the case, a rider may pile up a maximum of four kinds of lenses.
The visibility is still clear.
This is a proof with a high accuracy of each parts.
Please observe the nose of cam of a windshield.
It is a complicated form.
It has the shape of a lip, or the shape of a beak.
Thereby, invasion of a wind is prevented.
And this lip is raising the stiffness of a windshield.
The noise which a windshield emits has also decreased.
It seems that and this lip functions as a spoiler at the time of high speed operation.
Probably, it contributes to the aeromechanical stability of a helmet.
Incidentally,
Although I encountered the shower and noticed it,
This is useful in case of rainy weather.
The rain water on a windshield is brought together in this lip,
Waterdrop flows into both sides just like a rain water gutter.
It seems that there is such an effect.
There must also be many riders who were waiting eagerly for this.
As an option, wearing of PINLOCK fog-free sheet was attained.
Even in an open face helmet, a windshield may become cloudy.
Therefore, this option has a big meaning in safety.
Thus, the completeness of a windshield is high.
However, there is a dissatisfaction.
It is being unable to adjust the angle of a windshield.
This windshield will cover the whole face.
And since it has a lip, there is little invasion of a wind.
That is, there is little indraft of fresh air.
It is not airy.
In such a case
I am convenient if the angle of a windshield can be adjusted.
However, J-Cruise does not have the function.
Although it is a problem of tastes,
I considered that it was better to have been able to adjust the angle of a windshield so that typical SHOEI products might be so.
I tested this also on the highway.
This has the strong impression of being a very quiet helmet.
Much devices for silence.
The pivot supporting a windshield is a variable axis type.
It is a mechanism which sticks a windshield to a shell by pressure.
It is improving the airtightness of the helmet.
This is an ear pad made from a urethane foam.
This fills unnecessary space and erases an echo.
If this is removed, the space for embedding the speaker of a walkie-talkie will be produced.
The lever of a sun visor is protected by the rib,
A wind noise does not occur.
The lip of windshield rubber is double.
It is an idea which this also improves airtightness and prevents a noise.
Many ideas were discovered.
SHOEI owns the wind tunnel test Installation.
Therefore, the form of a helmet and the contour of details are tuned up finely.
Work of a ventilation is also good.
A make-and-break mechanism is a slide system.
I can operate it intuitively.
The buckles of chinstrap are protective gear which I should take notice of.
Since it is a ratchet type, a fine control of tightness is possible.
Moreover, it is a configuration where two latches always gear.
Even in an emergency, it is not separated simply.
A feeling of a fit of interior is also good.
It also holds the back of the head uniformly.
It is not shaken and the stable characteristic at the time of high speed operation is also good.
It is a good feeling of a hold.
An open face helmet is used daily in many cases.
SHOEI supplied much technology there.
Probably, it is the purpose to enjoy everyday riding safely.
Although it is a valuable helmet, J-Cruise should be used daily.