Full-face helmets
Every model reviewed against the same specifications, with the manufacturer's claim and the owner-reported figure kept apart.
Two hundred and twenty-four models were reviewed on this domain between 2022 and 2025, against a template of twenty-one headings that mostly ran to two sentences each. The specifications were the part worth keeping. Everything below is filed under the same twenty fields, which is what makes one model comparable to another rather than merely adjacent to it on a list.
Where a number came from is recorded alongside the number. A top speed is almost always the manufacturer’s claim, measured by the manufacturer, on a rider they chose; a range figure is almost never achievable by anyone who weighs more than that rider or rides anywhere with hills. Those are different kinds of fact and this site does not print them in the same typeface.
How to read a specification sheet
Watts sell scooters and brakes stop them. A dual-motor machine quoting 3,200 peak watts will out-accelerate almost anything at a light and will still take longer to stop from 30 mph than a well-braked commuter does from 20. Read the braking row first, then the tyre row, then the weight - because the weight is what decides whether you ever carry it up a flight of stairs, and a scooter you will not carry is a scooter you will not use.
The range row deserves the same suspicion. A quoted range is measured at a light rider weight, on flat ground, in the slowest mode, at a temperature nobody commutes in. Two thirds of the claim is a reasonable planning figure for most adults; half of it is the honest one in winter. That is why the range row on every page here is labelled with where the number came from, and why the owner-reported figure is the one worth planning around.
What the labels on each number mean
Every value in every specification table on this site carries its source. Manufacturer is the maker’s own claim, measured by them, on a rider they chose. Owner reported is aggregated from people who bought the machine and is always a range rather than a point. Independent is a named third-party measurement.
Nobody writing here has ridden these machines, and the site does not pretend otherwise. What it does instead is keep the three kinds of number apart, so a reader can see at a glance which figures are advertising and which are evidence. That distinction is the whole reason this catalogue exists, and it is enforced in the database rather than in an editorial guideline: a published specification with no stated source is refused.
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Subjects in Full-face helmets
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Arai Corsair-X
What Arai Corsair-X claims, what owners report, and the one trade-off that decides whether it is the right machine. This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves. Feel free to use my photos, but please me..., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Bell Qualifier What Bell Qualifier claims, what owners report, and the one trade-off that decides whether it is the right machine.
- Shoei RF-1400 What Shoei RF-1400 claims, what owners report, and the one trade-off that decides whether it is the right machine.
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- Shoei RF-1400 What Shoei RF-1400 claims, what owners report, and the one trade-off that decides whether it is the right machine.
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