Originally Posted by
rydabent
Back about 1990 give or take Bell made a helmet that had a hard lexan shell. I think the name of it was Tourlite. I wish they still made them. That was real protection.
Yes, in the late 1980s there were a number of good hard-shell helmets from different manufacturers. I too had a Tourlite. I also had a Vetta. It think manufacturers stopped making hard-shell helmets because it was a lot easier to make a helmet with a thin plastic coating. All that plastic coating is mostly for is to protect the foam from UV exposure.
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