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Arai are a high-end Japanese helmet manufacturer, creating hand-crafted helmets with excellent build quality. Originally formed in 1926 by Hirotake Arai as a hat maker, Arai is still run as a family concern by Michio 'Mitch' Arai and his grandson Akihito from Arai's HQ in Saitama, Japan. Nowadays, their helmets are used by some of the highest profile racers in motorcycle and car racing - including Maverick Vinales, Jonny Rea and Sebastian Vettel. On these pages, you'll find all our Arai motorbike crash helmet reviews and articles.

Latest Arai Helmet Reviews & Previews

Here are our latest Arai helmet reviews in latest date order and includes full face and off-road helmets, sportsbike and touring helmets. Note: Arai doesn't manufacture modular helmets so if you're looking, you won't find any!

Airoh Aviator 3 review: top of the range dirt helmet with...

Airoh Aviator 3 dirt motorcycle helmet review. The Aviator is Airoh's top of the range off road helmet, designed to be lighter with more air flow, more comfort and with better aero than all the other dirt helmets out there. Which is a lofty aim as there's some great offroad helmets...

HJC RPHA 91 review: touring modular helmet with integrated bluetooth and...

HJC RPHA 91 flip front motorcycle helmet review. Following on from the RPHA 90 modular, the HJC RPHA 91 is HJC’s latest premium modular helmet. It’s a composite fibre helmet with most of what you’d expect to find on a modern flip-front sports touring lid – including sun visor, integrated Bluetooth...

Schuberth S3 Sports Touring Motorcycle Helmet.

Is the Schuberth S3 sports/touring helmet worth buying? Schuberth's old S2 is a decent sports touring lid, but it's starting to feel a bit dated. So, Schuberth has replaced it with the S3, same helmet type but with the goal of updating the design and improving its performance where they can....

Airoh Connor – new full face motorcycle helmet

Modelled taking inspiration from the wind. Sorry, what? Annoying marketing bollocks aside, what Airoh means is that they've used a wind tunnel to design their latest full face helmet - the just announced Airoh Connor. There's precious little information out there about what to expect so I'm going to make an...

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...

About the Pinlock Visor System for Motorcycle Crash Helmets

What is the Pinlock on a helmet for? All motorcycle crash helmets can suffer from fogging visors - especially when it's cold, wet or humid. We've all been there, sat at the traffic lights or crawling through slow traffic, rain slamming down on your visor and the visor's like peering...

Full Face Arai Helmets

Arai particularly specialises in full face helmets in line with their founder's desire to produce the most protective helmets possible. Many are used in racing but they have an increasing range covering day to day riding as well as off road and touring helmets. You'll find all their full face helmets below (click load more to uncover them all).

Schuberth S3 Sports Touring Motorcycle Helmet.

Airoh Connor – new full face motorcycle helmet

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

Hi-tech shell, good price all-rounder. Premier Devil motorcycle helmet review.

Full Review: Premier Devil Sports Touring Motorcycle Helmet. Premier helmets really seem to be pushing these days. You never used to hear about Premier but nowadays it seems like they're releasing a new helmet every month. Which is no bad thing. They've been around for decades and, historically, built a great...

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 i71 is their latest full face polycarb offering, presumably replacing the HJC i70 - their last mid price full face polycarbonate helmet. And while both helmets...

Nexx X.R3R: FIM certified motorcycle helmet with great ventilation.

Nexx X-R3R sportsbike/track motorcycle helmet review. The X.R3R is a full-on sportsbike/track helmet made by composite fibre helmet maestros, Nexx. There's a couple of different versions available. One with a composite fibre shell (fibreglass, aramid & carbon) and the other with a full carbon fibre shell. This X-Pro carbon XR3R is...

Adventure, Dual Sport and Motocross Arai Helmets

Arai's focus is mainly on road riding helmets, but they do make helmets targeting other type of motorcycles too. If you're after a dual sport or adventure Arai helmet, you'll them below.

Airoh Aviator 3 review: top of the range dirt helmet with...

LS2 MX701 Explorer adventure motorcycle helmet review.

LS2 MX701 Explorer Adventure Helmet: modern, great value & versatile. LS2 are a funny bunch. Historically, they're mostly known for pushing out a large number of lower priced helmets. But nowadays, their helmets are really upping the ante and they're creating some well designed, high spec lids that are -...

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 Formula range of Motocross helmets. The first Formula helmet they launched was the top of the range full carbon version, followed by the CC Carbon Composite...

Sportsbike and Track Arai 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.

Nexx X.R3R: FIM certified motorcycle helmet with great ventilation.

Shoei X-SPR Pro FIM Homologated racing motorcycle helmet.

Shoei launch their latest top of the range racing helmet: the Shoei X-SPR Pro. Shoei's X-Spirit III racing helmet has been around since 2016. In that time, it's been pretty much on the top of the pile with the likes of Mark Marquez and John McGuinness wearing it and feeding...

HJC RPHA 1: FIM certified pro racing track helmet for the...

HJC RPHA 1: Now you can buy HJC's FIM homologated MotoGP racing helmet. HJC have been sponsoring riders in Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP for...well...ever. And just a quick squiz over their website shows a horde of riders wearing HJC lids in all major competitions around the world. So they should know a...

Shark Race-R Pro Carbon Fibre Full Face Helmet Review

Apparently, the Shark Race-R Pro helmet was originally designed for pro racers. Guess that means Stefan Bradl, Scott Redding and the like - and it gives you an idea of the sort of biker who'll naturally get the most out of the Race-R. Full faired, head-down sportsbike riders. SHARP...

LS2 FF805 Thunder: LS2’s FIM approved track/racing helmet.

LS2 FF805 Thunder: everything you'll need in an FIM approved carbon fibre race helmet. Chinese helmet maker, LS2, might not have the pedigree of some of the big boys when it comes to making racing helmets. But if the specs of their latest top of the range track helmet is...

Carbon composite FIM approved racing helmet. The Suomy SR-GP.

Suomy SR-GP FIM Motorcycle Racing/Track Helmet Review. The Suomy SR-GP is the top-flight, lightweight, track-developed motorcycle helmet from Italian brand, Suomy. Not only is it designed to work for you on your sportsbike or trackday, but it's also one of the few FIM approved racing helmets, approved for use in MotoGP. So...

MT Rapide and Rapide Pro: budget sportsbike and track helmets.

MT Helmets sportsbike/track helmets: the MT Rapide and Rapide Pro. The MT Rapide is the Spanish helmet maker's second foray into making a track/sportsbike helmet. And like the KRe range before it, it's available in composite fibre and full carbon version with both those helmets giving excellent value for money. Only this...

Scorpion Exo-R1 Air: Amazing value track helmet with MotoGP pedigree

The Scorpion Exo R1 Air is Scorpion's top of the range racing/sportsbike helmet. It's actually the exact same helmet that Fabio Quartararo wears in MogoGP - well it is if you buy a size small because that's the size that's been FIM tested/homologated for racing. It's a composite fibre full...

X-lite’s X-803 Composite, Ultra Carbon and RS Sportsbike Helmets.

X-Lite's top dog racing helmet: full review of the X-803 (Composite, Ultra Carbon and RS). The X-803 is the successor to X-Lite's X-802 and 802RR. They were great track helmets that were well liked, gave good protection and worked well on the track where riders from Chas Davies to Danillo...

Best Protecting Arai Helmets

All these helmets are ECE certified in Europe and several have been tested by the UK's SHARP testing labs. Arai has a mixed record for helmet test scores at SHARP, but where an Arai helmet scores either four or five SHARP stars (five is the max), you'll find it below.

Arai VX-Pro4: Great quality, good ventilation, bit heavy?

Arai MX-V enduro motocross dirt motorcycle helmet review. The MX-V is Arai's top of the range dirt helmet which Arai says has been designed using feedback from its sponsored riders in the worlds of motocross and enduro. The improvements Arai says they've made over their outgoing helmet is they've extended the...

The big-bottomed helmet is here. Meet the Arai Profile V.

Arai Profile V (US Regent X) motorcycle helmet review. The Arai Profile V (sold as the Regent X in the US) is Arai's second-in-line full face helmet, after the entry level Arai Debut. Which means it doesn't cost as much as most Arais. Yet looking down the features list, it seems...

Review of the Arai QV-Pro (Arai Signet-X in the US): street/sports...

Review of the Arai QV-Pro: the street/sports touring crash helmet from Arai. The QV-Pro is the long awaited replacement to that stalwart of their helmet range, the Quantum ST (or Signet-Q as it's called in the USA). It's central to their range because it's a street helmet that's designed to work just...

Arai Chaser-X full face crash helmet review

Arai Chaser-X: Arai's mid-level all-rounder motorcycle helmet. Arai's Chaser-X motorcycle helmet is designed to be a mid-level helmet (one step up from the entry-level Arai Axces III) that'll work on a range of sports-touring motorcycles and is suitable for everyone from commuters to tourers. It's a key helmet for Arai as it's...

Arai RX-7V – Review of Arai’s new top of the range...

Arai RX-7V (Corsair X in the US) - Arai's top of the range sportsbike helmet Arai have updated their range-topping RX-7 helmet - replacing it with the RX-7V. But if you think it looks very similar to the old RX-7 helmet, you'd be bang on. Because, as you can see from...

Review of the Arai Quantum ST full face crash helmet

Note in the US this helmet is known as the known as Arai Signet-Q. Arai describe it as ‘race-tested’ and it’s based on RX technology, but it really seems to be made for the all-rounder who takes long trips; ST = Sports Touring. Positive comments are that it works well...

Open Face Arai Helmets

Arai tends to be best known for their full face lids, but they do produce a range of high quality open face helmets too. You'll find all our open face Arai helmet reviews below.

Arai Urban V review: a premium quality, Snell certified open face...

Arai Urban V open face motorbike helmet review. The Arai Urban V is a fibreglass open face helmet that uses similar helmet tech to Arai's range of full face helmets. It's what Arai calls SFL or Special Fibre Laminate which is a complex fibreglass composite. And it also features their...