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All our AGV crash helmet reviews can be found on this page - either scroll down or use the page contents box above to quickly jump to different sections.

AGV is an Italian manufacturer - started by accountant Gino Amisano in 1947 (AGV stands for Amisano Gino Valenza) - and bought out by Dianese in 2007. They make a range of good quality mid to high end helmets - as shown by their excellent rankings in our safest crash helmet brands page where we look at the highest-scoring manufacturers in the SHARP helmet testing scheme.

Latest AGV Helmet Reviews & Previews

AGV makes some terrific full face helmets. Their range includes several carbon fibre shelled lids as well as composite and lower priced thermoplastic helmets. They've a great reputation for making protective helmets too - including several 4 and 5 star SHARP rated ECE helmets.

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AGV K6 & K6 S: high tech, comfortable sports-touring helmet.

AGV's Sports Touring Motorcycle Helmet. The K6/K6S is AGV's top flight sports touring helmet. AGV says they've gone all out to make a helmet that'll work just as well on a touring bike as a sportsbike. They also claim it's the lightest in its class - that's some boast - and...
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AGV Tourmodular: AGV’s Top Touring Motorcycle Helmet: and it’s a good...

AGV Tourmodular motorcycle helmet review The Tourmodular is AGV's high-end, composite fibre touring flip-up helmet, made with AGV's stated aim of producing a touring lid that's suitable for all day riding and that'll provide the highest safety levels. And if you look at the spec of the helmet, it all looks...

AGV X101 1970s retro Dakar inspired motorcycle helmet review

Review of AGV's basic but cool Dakar inspired Retro MX helmet: the AGV X101. As you might have noticed, there's quite a move towards retro helmets going on. AGV were towards the vanguard with their Ago-inspired X3000 retro racing lid which gave proper levels of performance as well as really...
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AGV Compact ST: one of the safest modular helmets around?

Review of the AGV Compact ST modular helmet AGV is a name that's synonimous with safety. If you don't have time to shop around but want a safe helmet for your motorcycle, then you can pretty well always trust an AGV. We'll bang on a bit more about protection in the...

AGV K3 SV and K3 SV-S motorcycle helmet review

The AGV K3 SV is the successor to the popular K3, with the SV denoting an integral sun visor and the SV-S having a rear spoiler. It's a polycarbonate-shelled crash helmet that takes its design from the latest line of AGVs that includes the Corsa, GT Veloce and Pista GP...
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Off road, on road and anywhere in between: AGV’s AX-9 adventure...

AGV AX-9 adventure helmet review. AGV's been making AX off-road helmets for over a decade now. The old AX8 was a great - if slightly flawed - helmet (you can read the AX8 review here). But one of the cool things about AX helmets is their ability to morph from road...

Modular/Flip-up AGV Helmets

From the AGV Sport Modular that's designed to work with lean-forward sportsbikes, to the more all-rounder Compact ST, AGV makes some quality modular helmets with a great reputation for making strong chin bars (exactly what you need in a flip-front helmet!).

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AGV Tourmodular: AGV’s Top Touring Motorcycle Helmet: and it’s a good...

AGV Tourmodular motorcycle helmet review The Tourmodular is AGV's high-end, composite fibre touring flip-up helmet, made with AGV's stated aim of producing a touring lid that's suitable for all day riding and that'll provide the highest safety levels. And if you look at the spec of the helmet, it all looks...
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AGV Compact ST: one of the safest modular helmets around?

Review of the AGV Compact ST modular helmet AGV is a name that's synonimous with safety. If you don't have time to shop around but want a safe helmet for your motorcycle, then you can pretty well always trust an AGV. We'll bang on a bit more about protection in the...
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AGV Sport Modular – a Flip-up Helmet for Sports Bikes

The World's 1st 2nd Sports Modular Crash Helmet: the AGV Sport Modular It's billed by AGV as the world's first sports-modular (flip-front) helmet. OK, that's not entirely true, because Schuberth's C4 flip-up helmet got there first. Still, it's great to see helmet makers pushing back the envelope - and with...

Full Face AGV Helmets

Most of AGV's range of full face helmets have been developed alongside their racing division. Which means not only that they share a common look that's sporty and pointy, but they're designed to cut through the air, giving good aero and stability on both road and track. Here's all the AGV full face helmets we've looked over...

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AGV K6 & K6 S: high tech, comfortable sports-touring helmet.

AGV's Sports Touring Motorcycle Helmet. The K6/K6S is AGV's top flight sports touring helmet. AGV says they've gone all out to make a helmet that'll work just as well on a touring bike as a sportsbike. They also claim it's the lightest in its class - that's some boast - and...

AGV X101 1970s retro Dakar inspired motorcycle helmet review

Review of AGV's basic but cool Dakar inspired Retro MX helmet: the AGV X101. As you might have noticed, there's quite a move towards retro helmets going on. AGV were towards the vanguard with their Ago-inspired X3000 retro racing lid which gave proper levels of performance as well as really...

AGV K3 SV and K3 SV-S motorcycle helmet review

The AGV K3 SV is the successor to the popular K3, with the SV denoting an integral sun visor and the SV-S having a rear spoiler. It's a polycarbonate-shelled crash helmet that takes its design from the latest line of AGVs that includes the Corsa, GT Veloce and Pista GP...
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AGV Pista GP and Pista GP-R crash helmet review

AGV Pista GP-R review - the best top-of-the-range full face sportsbike  helmet? The AGV Pista GP is AGV's no-holds-barred, top-dog track helmet - aimed at those of us who want the best and most exclusive sportsbike helmet around. It was designed in cahoots with assorted MotoGP riders, including Valentino Rossi, to...
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A look over the AGV X3000 retro full face motorcycle crash...

Retro helmet, great quality, Ago heritage. The AGV X3000. The AGV X3000 is AGV's recreation of Giacomo Agostini's early 70's racing helmet. And like most modern retro helmets, it's designed to give you all the look, feel and kudos of a lid from those halycon days but with some of...
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AGV’s excellent budget sportsbike/track helmet: AGV K1

AGV's entry-level sportsbike helmet review: the AGV K1. Always fancied owning a range-topping track helmet like the AGV Pista GPR or the slightly cheaper Corsa R, but just can't bring yourself to pay range-topping cash? Then the AGV K1 might just be the helmet you're looking for because owners reckon it's...
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AGV Corsa R Full Face Helmet Review

The AGV Corsa (and revised Corsa-R) is AGVs second-in-line sports/racing crash helmet. The carbon fibre Pista GP-RR was developed alongside Valentino Rossi and is a no holds-barred helmet that's designed for folks who spend their days on the track or tucked in at high speed. It was also very,...

AGV Veloce S: AGV’s Street/Sportsbike composite fibre full face helmet

AGV Veloce S motorbike crash helmet review. AGVs GT Veloce was a great helmet. Designed to be their entry-level sports helmet with a look of all those track-developed pointy AGVs like the Corsa R and top of the range Pista GP-R, it delivered supreme safety and lots of useful features...
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AGV K5/K5S Full Face Crash Helmet

AGV K5 & K5S: Review of AGVs Composite Fibre Sports/Touring Helmet AGVs K5 is designed to fill an important gap for AGV - a mass-market sports/touring motorcycle helmet with a composite shell, at a middle-of-the-road price. It's a bit like making a wine to sell at a £6.99 price point -...

Adventure, Dual Sport and Motocross AGV Helmets

AGV makes some nice crossover helmets including the AX range which are quality and versatile on- and off-road helmets.

AGV X101 1970s retro Dakar inspired motorcycle helmet review

Review of AGV's basic but cool Dakar inspired Retro MX helmet: the AGV X101. As you might have noticed, there's quite a move towards retro helmets going on. AGV were towards the vanguard with their Ago-inspired X3000 retro racing lid which gave proper levels of performance as well as really...
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Off road, on road and anywhere in between: AGV’s AX-9 adventure...

AGV AX-9 adventure helmet review. AGV's been making AX off-road helmets for over a decade now. The old AX8 was a great - if slightly flawed - helmet (you can read the AX8 review here). But one of the cool things about AX helmets is their ability to morph from road...

Review of the AGV AX8 series of motorcycle helmets

AGV AX-8 series crash helmets (including Evo, Naked and Dual Evo) The AGV AX8 series of helmets are all based on the same basic helmet shell but they've been reconfigured to change the base-level motorcross helmet into a dual-sports or adventure helmet by adding a combination of visor and sun peak. So we'll...

Sportsbike and Track AGV Helmets

AGV has made helmets for some of the biggest MotoGP stars out there including Valentino Rossi, Giacomo Agostini and Joan Mir. Their sportsbike helmets have been developed on the track and include FIM homologated racing helmets.

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AGV Sport Modular – a Flip-up Helmet for Sports Bikes

The World's 1st 2nd Sports Modular Crash Helmet: the AGV Sport Modular It's billed by AGV as the world's first sports-modular (flip-front) helmet. OK, that's not entirely true, because Schuberth's C4 flip-up helmet got there first. Still, it's great to see helmet makers pushing back the envelope - and with...
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AGV Pista GP and Pista GP-R crash helmet review

AGV Pista GP-R review - the best top-of-the-range full face sportsbike  helmet? The AGV Pista GP is AGV's no-holds-barred, top-dog track helmet - aimed at those of us who want the best and most exclusive sportsbike helmet around. It was designed in cahoots with assorted MotoGP riders, including Valentino Rossi, to...
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A look over the AGV X3000 retro full face motorcycle crash...

Retro helmet, great quality, Ago heritage. The AGV X3000. The AGV X3000 is AGV's recreation of Giacomo Agostini's early 70's racing helmet. And like most modern retro helmets, it's designed to give you all the look, feel and kudos of a lid from those halycon days but with some of...
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AGV’s excellent budget sportsbike/track helmet: AGV K1

AGV's entry-level sportsbike helmet review: the AGV K1. Always fancied owning a range-topping track helmet like the AGV Pista GPR or the slightly cheaper Corsa R, but just can't bring yourself to pay range-topping cash? Then the AGV K1 might just be the helmet you're looking for because owners reckon it's...
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AGV Corsa R Full Face Helmet Review

The AGV Corsa (and revised Corsa-R) is AGVs second-in-line sports/racing crash helmet. The carbon fibre Pista GP-RR was developed alongside Valentino Rossi and is a no holds-barred helmet that's designed for folks who spend their days on the track or tucked in at high speed. It was also very,...

AGV Veloce S: AGV’s Street/Sportsbike composite fibre full face helmet

AGV Veloce S motorbike crash helmet review. AGVs GT Veloce was a great helmet. Designed to be their entry-level sports helmet with a look of all those track-developed pointy AGVs like the Corsa R and top of the range Pista GP-R, it delivered supreme safety and lots of useful features...

Budget Priced AGV Helmets

AGV might be a quality brand but they do make some more entry level helmets. Here's a selection of AGV's budget helmets.

AGV K3 SV and K3 SV-S motorcycle helmet review

The AGV K3 SV is the successor to the popular K3, with the SV denoting an integral sun visor and the SV-S having a rear spoiler. It's a polycarbonate-shelled crash helmet that takes its design from the latest line of AGVs that includes the Corsa, GT Veloce and Pista GP...
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AGV’s excellent budget sportsbike/track helmet: AGV K1

AGV's entry-level sportsbike helmet review: the AGV K1. Always fancied owning a range-topping track helmet like the AGV Pista GPR or the slightly cheaper Corsa R, but just can't bring yourself to pay range-topping cash? Then the AGV K1 might just be the helmet you're looking for because owners reckon it's...

Helmet Reviews: AGV K-3 Crash Helmets for Sale

Helmet Reviews - the AGV K-3 in our Crash Helmets for Sale Section. For other Helmet Reviews, select either 4 & 5 Star SHARP Helmet Reviews or All Other Helmet Reviews. Summary: A lower-priced helmet with great features and build quality. Excellent ventilation, good visibility, good visor removal mechanism, good...

Best Protecting AGV Helmets

Where an AGV helmet has scored either four or five stars in the SHARP helmet safety test you'll find it below. A good SHARP score is probably the best indication of how protective a helmet will be on the road.

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AGV K6 & K6 S: high tech, comfortable sports-touring helmet.

AGV's Sports Touring Motorcycle Helmet. The K6/K6S is AGV's top flight sports touring helmet. AGV says they've gone all out to make a helmet that'll work just as well on a touring bike as a sportsbike. They also claim it's the lightest in its class - that's some boast - and...
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AGV Compact ST: one of the safest modular helmets around?

Review of the AGV Compact ST modular helmet AGV is a name that's synonimous with safety. If you don't have time to shop around but want a safe helmet for your motorcycle, then you can pretty well always trust an AGV. We'll bang on a bit more about protection in the...

AGV K3 SV and K3 SV-S motorcycle helmet review

The AGV K3 SV is the successor to the popular K3, with the SV denoting an integral sun visor and the SV-S having a rear spoiler. It's a polycarbonate-shelled crash helmet that takes its design from the latest line of AGVs that includes the Corsa, GT Veloce and Pista GP...
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AGV Sport Modular – a Flip-up Helmet for Sports Bikes

The World's 1st 2nd Sports Modular Crash Helmet: the AGV Sport Modular It's billed by AGV as the world's first sports-modular (flip-front) helmet. OK, that's not entirely true, because Schuberth's C4 flip-up helmet got there first. Still, it's great to see helmet makers pushing back the envelope - and with...
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AGV Pista GP and Pista GP-R crash helmet review

AGV Pista GP-R review - the best top-of-the-range full face sportsbike  helmet? The AGV Pista GP is AGV's no-holds-barred, top-dog track helmet - aimed at those of us who want the best and most exclusive sportsbike helmet around. It was designed in cahoots with assorted MotoGP riders, including Valentino Rossi, to...
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AGV Corsa R Full Face Helmet Review

The AGV Corsa (and revised Corsa-R) is AGVs second-in-line sports/racing crash helmet. The carbon fibre Pista GP-RR was developed alongside Valentino Rossi and is a no holds-barred helmet that's designed for folks who spend their days on the track or tucked in at high speed. It was also very,...

AGV Veloce S: AGV’s Street/Sportsbike composite fibre full face helmet

AGV Veloce S motorbike crash helmet review. AGVs GT Veloce was a great helmet. Designed to be their entry-level sports helmet with a look of all those track-developed pointy AGVs like the Corsa R and top of the range Pista GP-R, it delivered supreme safety and lots of useful features...
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AGV K5/K5S Full Face Crash Helmet

AGV K5 & K5S: Review of AGVs Composite Fibre Sports/Touring Helmet AGVs K5 is designed to fill an important gap for AGV - a mass-market sports/touring motorcycle helmet with a composite shell, at a middle-of-the-road price. It's a bit like making a wine to sell at a £6.99 price point -...

AGV Compact flip-up crash helmet review (AGV Numo EVO in US)

AGVs top of the range flip-up crash helmet - the AGV Compact (Numo EVO in US) The AGV Compact is designed for typical road riders - urban riders and touring types who don't spend hours in a sportsbike tuck position. There are some great modular crash helmets out there, so...