personally i don't care what it looks like aslong as it does the job

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Aero, plays only a small part, adding vents would add drag and remember your not going to be wearing this helmet for more than 10mins straight unless you've found a hill that takes that long to skate down. The difference between a helmet like this and motocross/fullfaced street bike helmets is 'A' the weight and 'B' the unobstructed field of view. MX/motocycle/dh mountain bike helmets have a 'nose' that is designed to protect your nose and mouth but in doing so that 'nose' blocks your view of the road from your toes out to about 2 metres. Helmets like the Predator/Icaro/Charly have a nose that comes down around your chin allowing you to see the nose of your board and 30m of the road infront of you all while in the tuck. If you look at Andrew's helmet in the very biginning of 'MT Rapeyou' you can see wot i mean about the nose of the helmet, you can see his whole face. The most important thing is that you where a helmet that 'you' feel safe in if that means a motorcycle helmet great, if its a dhmountain biking helmet great and if its a specialty helmet like the predator/Icaro/Charly thats great too. Icaro's and Charly's were designed as paragliding helmets, Icaro accepts that people use their products for Dh skating and promote it, Charly on the other hand denounces the use of their helmets by dh skaters because they're not deisgned for the impacts associated with DH.

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