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Polycarbonate Motorcycle Helmet Reviews

Polycarbonate plastic is one of the most common materials motorcycle helmets are made from. It’s incredibly tough and lightweight and when it’s combined with a polystyrene liner, offers great impact resistance. It’s also relatively cheap to manufacture so, in many ways, it’s the ideal material for a crash helmet.

Having said that, more expensive helmets tend to be made from complex composite materials such as fibreglass, carbon fibre and aramid – or a mix of all three. Still, many great performing helmets continue to be made out of polycarbonate – including helmets that score the maximum five star safety rating on SHARP helmet safety tests – so they’re well worth considering, especially if your on a smaller budget.

On these pages, you’ll find only crash helmets with polycarbonate shells.

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HJC i71 Polycarbonate full face helmet.

HJC i71: HJC's latest mid-price full face polycarbonate all-rounder. HJC certainly don't stand still. They rattle through new models faster than Leo DiCaprio. And the...
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Fly Racing Formula range of Carbon, Composite and Polycarb dirt helmets.

Fly Racing Formula dirt motorcycle helmet review. Fly Racing was known for their range of lower price helmets - that is, until they launched the...
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HJC i100 review: HJC’s first flip-over modular helmet.

HJC i100 modular flip-over helmet review. The i100 is HJC's first attempt at a flip-over modular helmet. Just like a number of Shark helmets - and...
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Scorpion Exo-930 review: a great value flip-up helmet offering full open...

Scorpion Exo-930 Smart motorcycle helmet review. Note: if you're interested in the US Scorpion Exo-GT930, please visit the review on our US site as it's...
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Nolan N21 and N21 Visor open face crash helmet review.

Nolan N21: great value open face helmet with sun visor. Nolan's N21 open face helmet is designed to look a bit fighter pilot and a...
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The Nolan N100-5 and N100-5 Plus flip-up. The perfect modular helmet?

Nolan N100-5 and N100-5 Plus flip up modular motorcycle helmet review. The N100-5/Plus is Nolan's top of the range flip-up/modular helmet, designed to be all...
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Scorpion Exo-520 Air review. A great value full face helmet with...

Scorpion Exo-520 Air motorcycle helmet review. Scorpion has always done a good line in lower priced helmets that perform. The old Scorpion Exo 510 Air...
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Biltwell Lane Splitter Review: SHARP 5 Star Retro Helmet. Cool, Safe,...

Biltwell Lane Splitter retro motorcycle helmet review. California-based Biltwell make just two full face helmets: the very retro Gringo and this very Simpson-inspired Lane Splitter. The...
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Nolan’s N80-8; full face polycarb all-rounder helmet.

The Nolan N80-8 is the successor to the Nolan N87 - a well liked, well specced polycarb all rounder full face helmet that was...
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100% Simpson style but without the price tag: Simpson Speed Bandit...

Simpson Speed review: Simpson's entry level polycarb motorcycle helmet. You want a Simpson helmet but you don't want to pay what Simpson helmets usually cost?...