Arai RX-Q Helmet Details
Even its name tells you it's special. To anyone familiar with Arai's model lineage, the RX prefix is well-known. It began with the original X-7 back in 1979, evolving a few years later into the iconic RX-7 model series that effectively changed the face, literally and figuratively, of helmet design.
Specifically created to be a cut above others - even Arai's own. It's not a new street helmet by default, as in We need a new street helmet. It's a new street helmet by design, as in We need something nobody's ever done before. Arai applied the same tireless 24-7 focus usually reserved for race helmets to designing it. Refining and adapting proven concepts to a new purpose. As a result, the new RX-Q is aimed at the experienced street rider. One who can readily feel and appreciate the difference built into this amazing new Arai helmet, who reels off mega-miles no matter which way the road bends, and on every kind of bike.
Features:
EXTREMELY WIDE PERIPHERAL VIEW
Extremely wide peripheral view for better visibility and awareness of the world around you. The RX-Q uses the same wider-eyeport SAI faceshield as the Corsair V, 5mm wider on each side
HAND-FORMED NATURAL SHELL SHAPE
Small, more aerodynamic, hand-formed natural shell shape and size aids stability and stillness - not only in straight-line wind-tunnel stability, but it also minimizes the negative aerodynamic effect when turning your head to check traffic or in a cross wind. And it looks better on your head than other bigger, rounder balloon-style shell designs on the market.
ADVANCED VENTILATION
Advanced ventilation combines more efficiency with even less interior noise. Arai's ability to further refine proven designs ito increase helmet performance proves that you don't have to reinvent the wheel to make substantial improvements. The vents have been refined to be extremely efficient, flowing huge volumes of air through the interior to improve ventilation at road speeds. Not a lot of vent holes - just the right ones, in the right size, in the right place.
LOWER CENTER OF GRAVITY
A uniquely designed lower Hyper-Ridge circles the shell bottom to improve strength and aerodynamics. Its design lowers the center-of-gravity for an exceptionally light feeling on your head, and provides a larger bottom opening for easier on-off without enlarging the helmet.
REMOVABLE NECKROLL
The RX-Q has both a removable neckroll and Arai's (now copied) innovation, the Emergency Cheek Pad Removal System. Both come directly from its Corsair V "big brother".
NEW ONE PIECE BOTTOM EDGE TRIM
Brand new, one piece bottom edge trim, gives an incredibly clean look by eliminating the need for seams. Another example of Arai's attention to the smallest detail, borne of Mr. Arai's belief: There is no unimportant part of an Arai helmet.
EVEN MORE COMFORT
Even more comfort. The RX-Q 's truly-unique, newly-sculpted cheekpad shape cradles the head from underneath for a level of comfort and security that needs to be felt to be believed. With more surface area, it moves away from the typical "pressure fit" to a more "comfort fit" based on the design's "cradle" support The design was influenced by the Arai's F-1 drivers, the most demanding of all for fit.
Very, very quiet. Mostly owed to the new cheekpad design. The newly sculpted lower portion of the cheek pad better cradles the jaw, blocking more noise entering the helmet from underneath - the major source of helmet noise - by creating a better noise seal. This, combined with new sound-deadening foam in the ear pocket, gives you an extremely quiet helmet.
AERODYNAMIC EXHAUST VENT COWLING
New more aerodynamic upper and side exhaust vent cowling, sculpted to enhance stability while increasing exhaust efficiency. The side vent cowls are tailored to the needs and speeds of the street. Compared to the C-V, the RX-Q's cowlings are larger and more aggressively styled, as lower street speeds require more surface area and a more refined shaping in order to deliver the increased stability. High speed performance is also excellent.
HANDMADE CRAFTSMANSHIP
Arai's exceptional handmade craftsmanship, made to a higher standard of protection, comfort, and quality that's difficult to put a "price" on.
A PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION
True to Arai's successful generations-long-philosophy of evolution rather than revolution, the complexity and sophistication of the RX-Q design is hidden in the simplicity of its execution. Its typical "Arai look" belies the considerable performance this helmet delivers for the street rider. (The "look" is purpose-driven by Arai's belief that you can make changed to a helmet shell as long as you never forget its primary function: impact energy management; thereby leading to the use of more natural, smoother surfaces without exaggerated ridges or protrusions that may look impressive, but that in a crash could possibly have an adverse effect on the helmet's main job - manage impact energy)
TESTING FEEDBACK
Testing feedback has centered on how light the RX-Q feels in you hands -and even lighter on you head. Peripheral vision, comfort and stability seem to be immediately recognizable, and a new level of quiet that impresses everybody who experiences it, proving that this helmet needs to be ridden in to fully appreciate the features that make it stand out among its competition.
BROW VENT CHANNELING
The faceshield Brow Vents, like those of the Corsair V, redirect incoming air to the temples instead of the forehead, and around the ear area (missed by many helmet ventilation systems). The stale air is then extracted out of the side exhaust cowls. The airflow over the temple artery reportedly also helps cool the blood flow the the brain area. This simple re-purposing of the two existing vent features greatly improves helmet performance and rider comfort.
INTERIOR SHAPE
Intermediate Oval. The RX-Q has an evolved version of Arai's very popular Intermediate-Oval (IO) interior shape. Arai is the only company offering multiple interior-fit packages to better address the infinite varity of consumers' head shapes and sizes. Its interior fit shapes evolve and improve as company research recognizes trends based on consumer feedback. The RX-Q shape is similar to the current Corsair V and Vector models, and the former RX-7 Corsair and Quantum-2, but the RX-Q's shape represents a further refinement of interior shape configuration based on market feedback and Arai's continual comparison, measurement and research of human head shapes.
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