Youth Full Face Helmet
Decided to give your child a head start in motorcycling, competitive biking or carting? He deserves nothing but the best in safety. Full face motorcycle for the young ones are widely available, and are made by most respectable helmet manufacturers. This means your child gets nothing but the best, including safety standard certifications found in big boy helmets. Why settle for a toy when you can buy him a branded and safer one. After all, you probably consider your child’s life more important than yours.
Most of you know that Helmet Hunter is normally associated with motorcycle helmets. But, since youth helmets is a somewhat broad term, we shall discuss and cover helmets that can be used for various applications—carting, bikes, dirt motorcycles, and road/full face, race style helmets.
Depending on the age of your child, he or she will probably have to settle for youth or junior helmets until the age of fifteen. It varies widely on genes and or the height of your child—if he is considered tall or short for his age. Youth helmets are nothing short of their full version counterparts. They also pass safety standards like DOT and Snell, and really the only thing different is the size. And well, possibly the relatively fewer choices in styles, colors, and models.
Some examples of trusted brands that manufacture youth counterparts for their helmets include Bell, M2R, Gmax, Icon, Fox Racing (dirt), Giro, and Sparx. Now that’s just naming a few. Imaging all the brands available for your little rider.
And well, do not think for a second that just because you are buying a smaller helmet you’ll be paying for less. While such might be true to some extent, the prices of youth helmets are not that far from regular helmets. And well, to tell you the truth, that is how it should really be. Safety should not be taken for granted. If the difference is life and death, no price should be unaffordable.
When hunting for the right youth helmet, always start your shopping with specialty motorcycle gear shops. Never, or stay away from sold in kids merchandise and/or warehouse shopping places. Online is a good place to find quality youth helmets and if you are familiar with some of them (I assume you also ride), try to browse their youth section. If they do not have any, ask around, especially for those that have real stores, as they might just not have included them in the online catalog.
Below is a youth full face made by Airoh.
Next is a motocross style full face made by O’Neal.
Another motocross helmet, this time made by Bell.
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Good tips. We definitely need to protect the children!