Info Helmet Sizing

Hey all

So I'm optomistically hoping to get either my FZR or ZZR on the road at some point this year. Being from the west of Ireland, inclement weather and lashing rain followed by blazing sunshine on the same day is not unusual, so other than some sub zero temps during the winter mornings. all year round is largely the same!.

With this in mind and to motivate myself further, I decided to purchase a new helmet as my old lid is over 25 years old. I checked the sizing on my old full face helmet and ordered the same size in a flip face from

https://www.thevisorshop.com/en/LS2-FF902-Scope-Skid-Flip-Front-Helmet-BlackYellow/m-29578.aspx

So 3 days later, package arrived, big smile on my face, opened up the box and took out the helmet.

A couple of things were immediately apparent

1. The build quality of the helmet is far superior to what was around the last time I really looked at helmets - the padding, visor and vents etc are a lot better than I expected
2. The flip face helmet weights a lot more than I thought.
3. There were plenty of accessories in with the lid along with a helmet bag etc. so I was well impressed.

I went to put on the helmet and to my surprise it was too tight. so I checked the size against what I ordered, put on my old helmet (which still fit if a bit tight) followed some google advice and decided to get the next size up. I guess being 25 years older and a at least 1.5 stone heavier could contribute to the change in size. (its not from wisdom I'm reliably informed by my missus ).

So waited about 10 days for the replacement to arrive and low and behold its still on the tight side.

So I wanted to ask some advice from the folks here. Is there a difference in size between a full face and an equivalent flip up helmet? e.g do you need to order the next size up? or has padding improved so much that you need to allow for this as well?

comments and feedback appreciated
thanks

 

Thanks. Covid restrictions make it difficult to get to be out and about shopping and the one motorcycle shop in galway is lowsy but I'll head in there in friday and try some on. See what happens. Thanks