Helmet painting

[baker]

There is a young man near my house that is starting to paint helmets. I always wanted custom helmet but couldn't afford $800. Now I can get one for less than half. His email is mxmatt157@verizon.net Here are some examples and the green/black helmet is for sale $350 it is Medium

[Loosenut]

No more custom painted helmets for me. I had a beautiful Arai VX-Pro that I had custome painted. I gave the artist liberty to do as he pleased and was impressed. I crashed landing head-first in the rocks. Expensive helmet with expensive pait job now worthless.

[MattR]

Originally Posted by Loosenut

Expensive helmet with expensive pait job now worthless.

Nope, it's an expensive trophy for your garage/workshop.

[Rick]

Looks very cool, until you hit the single track and tree limbs start wacking the ole brain bucket.

[roostafish]

I once had a custom painted helmet that matched my bike, had my name, looked ultra cool. I won a championship wearing that helmet, then felt extremely vulnerable, and a little indulgent with a number one on my plate. I promptly bought a plain white Arai VX Pro. Good helmet, not heat absorbing, far more humble in appearance (never mind the giant ego underneath.........I hope I'm recovering from that, Lord knows I've been humiliated enough).

[roostafish]

Got hung up on storyboarding.

Those are beautiful paint jobs. Do you know if he'll paintmy helmet if I send it to him? I'll need a Team USA paint Job next year. Pretty simple design, just blue with white skunk stripes. The skunk stripes are not that easy to get right believe it or not.

[Skidad]

Originally Posted by roostafish

Got hung up on storyboarding.

Those are beautiful paint jobs. Do you know if he'll paintmy helmet if I send it to him? I'll need a Team USA paint Job next year. Pretty simple design, just blue with white skunk stripes. The skunk stripes are not that easy to get right believe it or not.

I always thought one of the perks for qualifying for the US Six Day team was a free skunk helmet for every rider?

[baker]

roostafish- He does paint worn helmets. Send him a e-mail. He is working on mine right now

[roostafish]

The team helmet is not free if you qualify. I don't know how it works now, but back in '98, the team helmet "issue" was an Arai VX Pro already painted, with a white visor. You can paint your own helmet to cheap out, or to please sponsors and wear what you're advertising. Problem with the team helmet is that it was $500. Yep, you're buying it. Qualifying is a priveledge that few receive, and it is very costly when you add up all the fees, you end up paying for everything. That's the reason I'd prefer to have my helmet painted, since I already have two perfectly good, recently new Arai helmets. I also plan to forgoe the Team container and that fee and drive to Mexico. I don't know what the entry fee will be for Mexico, but as I recall, it's about $600 just for entry. I'm very fortunate to have a tire sponsor locked up, so that will save roughly $1200.

[roostafish]

I need to make a correction. I just found out that if you wear an Arai helmet to qualify for the Six Days, you will get a free Arai with the team paint job when you go! This is great news. I guess I should have known this, and it does start to sound vaguely familiar. Anyway, anyone on here that was wondering, I thought I'd clear that up.
The reason the team helmet for me would have been $500 in '98 was that I was wearing a Bell, and probably didn't think I'd need to buy a $500 helmet, just to maybe get a free $500 helmet. Either way I was shelling out the same amount of cash, so I decided that I'd incur the expense if needed after the dream occured.