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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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Nolan N60-5 polycarbonate full face motorbike helmet review

Nolan N60-5: entry-level full face helmet with tested protection. Italian-based Nolan makes a pretty big range of helmets, and they're all aimed towards the mid-...
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A budget flip-front helmet with an excellent SHARP 4 star safety...

HJC C90: flip-front, SHARP 4 Star motorbike helmet. Note: the HJC C90 has now been discontinued. Try checking out our Motorbike Helmet Top 10s to...

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...
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Scorpion’s do everything adventure/road modular helmet: the Scorpion ADX-1.

Review of the Scorpion EXO ADX1 AT950 modular adventure helmet. The Scorpion Exo ADX-1 (same as the AT950 if you're in the US) is Scorpion's...

Great value full face – but not in Europe just yet.

Scorpion EXO-R420 budget full face motorcycle crash helmet review. The Scorpion EXO 410 Air we reviewed a few years ago has now been replaced by......
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Icon Alliance and Alliance GT (sun visor): great value all-rounder helmets.

Icon Alliance and Alliance GT full face motorcycle helmet review. Along with the Icon Airmada, the Icon Alliance is Icon's entry-level full face motorcycle helmet....
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Budget SHARP 4 Star safety rated modular… but there’s a problem

Duchinni D606 budget flip-front motorcycle helmet review. They might sound Italian, but Duchinni are a Chinese helmet maker, known for making lower priced polycarbonate helmets. The...
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Review of the LS2 Valiant FF399 motorcycle crash helmet

Review of LS2's flip-over polycarbonate modular helmet. If you've ever checked out the Shark Evoline or Shark Evo-one 2 modular helmets, you might find there's...
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Review of the Icon Airmada street motorcycle crash helmet

Icon Airmada: mid-priced full face street helmet The Icon Airmada is a sporty full face polycarbonate helmet that's aimed at road riders but that gives...
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Scorpion Exo 100 Padova open face helmet

The Scorpion Exo 100 looks, on paper at least, to be a breath of fresh air. With a drop down sun visor and classic...