Arai RX-Q Features

Advanced Ventilation

Combines more efficiency with even less interior noise. Arai’s ability to further refine proven designs to increase helmet performance proves that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to make substantial improvements. The vents have been refined to be extremely efficient, flowing huge volumes of air through the interior to improve ventilation at road speeds. Not a lot of vent holes – just the right ones, in the right size, in the right place.

Small, more aerodynamic, hand-formed natural shell shape and size

Aids stability and stillness – not only in straight-line wind-tunnel stability, but it also minimizes the negative aerodynamic effect when turning your head to check traffic or in a cross wind. And it looks better on your head than other bigger, rounder balloon-style designs on the market.

Extremely Wide Peripheral View

For better visibility and awareness of the world around you. The RX-Q uses the same wider-eyeport SAI faceshield as the Corsair-V, 5mm wider on each side.

Very, Very Quiet

Mostly owed to the new cheekpad design. The newly sculpted lower portion of the cheek pad better cradles the jaw, blocking more noise entering the helmet from underneath – the major source of helmet noise – by creating a better noise seal. This, combined with new sound-deadening foam in the ear pocket, gives you an extremely quiet helmet. Plus, the cheekpad also has Arai’s innovative Emergency Cheekpad Removal System

A uniquely-designed lower Hyper-Ridge

Circles the shell bottom to improve strength and aerodynamics. Its design lowers the center-of-gravity for an exceptionally light feeling on your head, and provides a larger bottom opening for easier on-off without enlarging the helmet.

Brand new, one piece bottom edge trim

Gives an incredibly clean look by eliminating the need for seams. Another example of Arai’s attention to the smallest detail, born of Mr. Arai’s belief: There is no unimportant part of an Arai helmet.

The RX-Q has both a removable neckroll and Arai’s (now copied) innovation, the Emergency Cheekpad Removable System. Both come directly from its Corsair-V “big brother.”

Brow Vent Channeling

The faceshield Brow Vents, like those of the Corsair-V redirect incoming air to the temples instead of the forehead, and around the ear area (missed by many helmet ventilation systems). The stale air is then extracted out of the side exhaust cowls. The airflow over the temple artery reportedly also helps cool the blood flow to the brain area. This simple repurposing of two existing vent features greatly improves helmet performance and rider comfort.

Shape

The RX-Q has an evolved version of Arai’s very popular Intermediate-Oval interior shape. The RX-Q shape is similar to the current Corsair-V and Vector models, and the former RX-7 Corsair and Quantum-2, but the RX-Q’s shape represents a further refinement of interior shape configuration based on market feedback and Arai’s continual comparison, measurement and research of human head shapes.


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