Why was Ben Spies wearing Colin Edwards Helmet?
After the computer theft from the Aspar team garage that occured at Sepang, there was another small mystery in the paddock surrounding Ben Spies’ helmet.
The Texas Terror usually wears a HJC FC-15 lid, but on Thursday Spies was sporting on track an Arai RX-7 GP Colin Edwards Red helmet with the Arai logos blanked out.
The question is why was Elbowz wearing his teammate’s helmet? Did he forget his helmets at home, did the airline lose them, were they stolen like the Aspar computers? If anyone knows the answer to our question, please let us know, so we can rest easier.
Source | motoblog
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textorn5#1fan
17 Feb 2010 - 01:13 - #1Spies’s HJC helmets did not make it on time for testing (shipped) Colin did not mind spoiling Ben with the Worlds best helmet ARAI corsair V. Ben wears a compleatly different HJC than the ones sold to the regular consumers. His current fs-15 is carbon composite, and the one for your head is not. There is a new helmet being introduced by HJC soon called the HJC R-PHA 10 This is the helmet that once again after only 2 years of Spies wearing the FS-15 and helpinghelping develop Helmets for HJC will wear (not the same version you will have on your head)…. To me that’s poor. Colin Edwards may like a stationary liner in his lid , but the costruction of his Corsair V size small is the same as mine. Why would you wear anything else? That shows the level of comitment a helmet company has ! ARAI HELMETS ARE #1 WOULD YOU WEAR ANYTHING ELSE IF YOU KNEW THE FACTS…? NOW YOU DO SO MAKE THE BEST CHOICE FOR YOUR ONE AND ONLY HEAD … THE ONE AND ONLY ARAI!
NT
18 Feb 2010 - 15:07 - #2Once the previous fellow has wiped himself off and stopped jacking off to his Arai, the reason why Ben Spies was wearing Edwards’ helmet was because the new HJC, the R-PHA 10, was a little big for him. There’s some footage from an Italian or Spanish news site which features him in the R-PHA 10, and it indeed looks a little big for him.
Anyway, the helmet he was wearing in Superbike, the FG-15, is actually made of a blend of epoxy twill, aramid, pre-impregnated fibreglass twill and some form of organic fibres (known as “Premium Integrated Matrix”). This is available to the public, unlike what the Arai masturbator has said.
Oh! BTW, I am not an HJC employee, just a motorcyle and motorcycle gear enthusiast who is a stickler for accuracy.