{"id":1494882,"date":"2020-07-07T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=1494882"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:57:41","slug":"shark-spartan-gt-carbon-helmet-review-its-name-is-shestter-but-i-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/shark-spartan-gt-carbon-helmet-review-its-name-is-shestter-but-i-dont-care\/","title":{"rendered":"SHARK SPARTAN GT CARBON HELMET REVIEW \u2013 Its name is \u201cShestter\u201d, but I don\u2019t care."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is me in a reflective mood.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

IMAGES BY NICK ‘WHY ARE YOU PANTING?’ EDARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can only imagine an impish French designer beheld this entirely new Shark marvel and declared: \u201cMon Dieu! I shall call it Shestter because if I call it \u2018Napoleon\u2019, I shall be guillotined!\u201d
\nSo that\u2019s its name. But I don\u2019t care because a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, as young William observed in those halcyon pre-Plague days.<\/p>\n

A solid update on the popular and very sexy-looking Spartan range, Shark has done well with this new iteration.<\/p>\n

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You can see how well the drop-down sun-visor works and the new locking tab on the front of the visor.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

At a relatively lightweight 1540g, you can get it in two outer shell sizes to cope with smaller heads. And it\u2019s lashed with gorgeous carbon-fibre, which counterpoints the snazzy white-and-black graphics, wings, and vents to great effect. It is a damn fine-looking lid.<\/p>\n

The updates are as follows:<\/p>\n

Ventilation has been augmented via two Venturi-like openings in the chin-piece, which draw air into the lid by creating a vacuum \u2013 just like on those wondrous vintage motorcycles us old people complain about all the time. Except this works better and all the time.<\/p>\n

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Everything is deployed, visor, sun-visor, me panting inside the carbon-fibre.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s the usual very effective big exhaust vent on the back, but the biggest update is the new visor-locking system, which is adapted straight from the Shark Race-R Pro GP. It now locks at the front of the anti-scratch visor via an initially fiddly button. It was only fiddly because I wasn\u2019t used to it. But once I\u2019d thumbed it a few times with my gloved hands, the new synapses kicked in and it was fine. It is a much better visor-locking system than before.<\/p>\n

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Note the artistic misting of breath-fog. Fit the Pinlock. Make the effort.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Replacing the visor is kinda fiddly too, but that\u2019s why YouTube was invented. It\u2019s really not that bad and I am kinda ham-fisted, and you can practice your French swear-words when you\u2019re doing it, as I did.<\/p>\n

It comes with a Pinlock inner visor ready to fit, and the drop-down sun-visor is one of the best in the business, because it doesn\u2019t sit on your nose or at the bottom of your vision when deployed.<\/p>\n

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The graphics are killer, as are the wings. The name is next level French.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The liner has changed a bit, but remains removable, washable, anti-bacterial, with emergency release tabs, and is eyeglasses friendly. For me, there is no wear-in period with Shark lids. They\u2019re comfy on the first ride.<\/p>\n

It comes ready to fit the Sharktooth Prime comms thing if that\u2019s your gig, and since I have done this once with great success, I can declare it\u2019s not hard to do.<\/p>\n

On the road, the field of view is excellent, but it\u2019s not a cone of silence. There is some wind noise, but it\u2019s not intrusive unless you lift the visor. Then there is a formidable whistling noise. This noise reminded me of my keening bladder, which needs to be emptied with timorous regularity these days, so that\u2019s not a bad thing. Very few helmets don\u2019t make some kind of noise when you lift the visor, so it\u2019s no deal-breaker for me.<\/p>\n

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Sunnies-friendly, like all good helmets.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

There is no lift at speed, but without the Pinlock it fogs quickly despite the breath guard, so fitting that is a must. Otherwise you go through this strange ritual of: visor down it\u2019s cold, fog blindness, slow down, lift visor, whistling as fog clears, visor down, speed up, fog blindness, and so on.<\/p>\n

The Spartan GT Carbon exudes quality, as it should. It\u2019s not a cheap helmet, but it\u2019s not one of those sassy four-figure jobbies either. It\u2019s quite a lot of helmet for not an indecent price, with well-thought-out upgrades and killer graphics.<\/p>\n

And yes, it does come in colours other than bridal white.<\/p>\n

HOW MUCH? $859<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WHERE CAN I GET IT FROM? Shark helmets are widely available. I can Google it for you, but what would be the fun in that?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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IMAGES BY NICK ‘WHY ARE YOU PANTING?’ EDARDS I can only imagine an impish French designer beheld this entirely new Shark marvel and declared: \u201cMon Dieu! I shall call it Shestter because if I call it \u2018Napoleon\u2019, I shall be guillotined!\u201d So that\u2019s its name. But I don\u2019t care because a rose by any other [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1494884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,58,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494892,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494882\/revisions\/1494892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}