Nolan has also introduced the Emergency Quick Release System (EQRS) to the X-803. But if you shed water like a plough-horse, you’ll be pleased to know the entire lining is removable (including the lining on the chin-strap) so mum can put it in the washing machine for you. It has netting at the crown, which when combined with an active carbon lining and a carbon weave liner, will render sweat less sweaty. Who would have ever thought green is so damn stylish? And I can now make that pout with an excellent rubber breath-guard you can take on or off if you’re having a Bane moment. I now have to pout more when I kiss my dignity goodbye. Nolan listened to the Angelinas and the X-803 is roomier about the lips. The previous model was snug about the mouth, and if you had full and sensuous Angelina Jolie lips, you might have smeared your lipstick a touch. As in the previous model, this all-carbon, hand-layered masterwork is very light (1240gm) and I experienced no buffeting or neck-wrenching, even when I did not dare look at the speedo lest Satan came for me. Now that spoiler might not be as lairy as the AGV Pista GP-R or Shoei’s X-Spirit III, but then you might not be that lairy either. The other vents are married to the big exhaust vent at the back of the lid, just under the adjustable spoiler, so the air-flow is genuine, plentiful and effective. You get two open-close crown vents and two open-close forehead vents just above the visor, as well as a pair of open-close chin-vents which link to the exhaust vents either side of the chin-piece. Nolan calls it Racing Air Flow (RAF) and along with God, it’s just the thing you need when you’re hyperventilating into Southern Loop on a 35-degree day. Of course, you get a Pinlock visor in the box (best anti-fogging thing ever), and the ability to crack the lid open a touch also adds to its amazing ventilation. Nolan states it has also improved the dust-and-water sealing at the front, though how that was possible over the already excellent 802RR remains a scientific mystery to me. I really don’t need to see any more people passing me, quite frankly.īut more peripheral vision is even more important on the road, so bear that in mind. Both vertically and horizontally, the vision is as good as it gets. It’s a true racing lid, so it’s at its best when you’re in a racing crouch and staring at the rear-end of the bloke in front whom you must pass lest your pit garage think you’re unworthy. The ratchet visor is now larger and offers even more peripheral vision. The improvements over the X-802RR are as follows… The X-803 is the helmet that replaces X-Lite’s superb X-802RR – a hard act to follow, but follow it they did, with small but important tweaks.ĭanilo Petrucci and Chaz Davies are X-Lite riders, as is Casey Stoner, so it’s inevitable they would have had some input into the evolution of the lid. He felt it to be the best-looking helmet he had ever seen and it saddened me when he would put it on and hide his shameless ginger beauty from the world.ĭear Res, buy the X-803. And yes, it has all the true race-bred features to back up its stunning good looks – and I shall point to them in a sec.īut first, I must address my brother, Res, who bought the old X-802RR. As it is, the the X-803 is right up there as one of the best-looking lids you could ever wear. Nolan Emergency Release System (NERS) increases safety as the cheek pads can be quickly removed.One more X in its name and we’d be at such a level of helmet-porn, I’d have to take my pants off to write this. The detachable helmet spoiler reduces the air resistance and ensures greater stability at high speeds. The adjustment strap allows the height of the lining, and therefore the position of the helmet, to be adjusted to suit the head shape of the wearer. Other features: chin curtain and breath guard, Liner Positioning Control system (LPC).Ventilation: Adjustable chin, forehead and top vents with internal air channels.Lining: Carbon Fitting Racing lining, highly breathable due to active carbon fibres, thermal regulation, completely removable and washable.Outer shell sizes: 3 (XXS-S,M-L, XL-XXL).Material: Carbon (carbon/fibreglass/Kevlar).Dark smoked visor additionally included free of charge. Visor: clear, with Pinlock anti-fog visor insert.This racing helmet gives you all this and more. If you want more comfort, you should go for the X-Lite *X-803 RS Carbon* with Liner Positioning Control system (LPC) which allows you to adapt the helmet precisely to the shape of your head by adjusting the height. A suitable Racetrack Setup (RS) with smoked visor and transparent Racetrack Aerodynamic Spoiler (RAS) are of course standard components of a proper MotoGP helmet.
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