Arai Helmets
Atlantic Moto is an authorized dealer for Arai Helmets. We stock the latest range of Arai Motorcycle Helmets for sale in USA. We offer the Free Shipping, as well as Low Price Guarantee on Helmets.
Use the links below to find out more information about Arai helmets. At Atlantic Moto, we stock the full range of Arai.
Arai Helmets | Arai Sizing Guide | Arai FAQ | Arai History | Arai Helmets USA | Arai Technology | Arai Pursuit of Quality
Overview of Arai Helmets
Arai Corsair V
The pinnacle of the Arai helmet line is the Corsair V (or Corsair 5). This state of the art motorcycle helmet offers the best in design, fit, and comfort in a helmet. Aimed at the advanced rider & racer, the Corasir V is available in a range of solid colors and graphic designs (Aoyama, Haga, Harada, Randy, Rea). Arai Corsair V Helmets
Arai RX-Q
Released earlier in 2010, the new Arai RX-Q is built as the ultimate street helmet. Arai have worked hard to bring comfort, reduce noice, increase stability in this street helmet. The RX-Q is built for the real world, and competes competently against other top of the line brand helmets. Aimed at the experienced street rider, the RXQ offers new levels of street bike helmet performance. Available in solid colors or graphics (UK or Italy Flag, Gothic, Talon, Urban, Arai RX-Q Helmets
Arai Profile
The Profile is the Long Oval interior shape in the Arai helmet family. This helmet is aimed at riders with long, narrow head shapes. A great quality motorcycle helmet from the Arai line of helmets. Available in solid colors or graphics (Riptide Pink, Blue, Red, Grey). Arai Profile Helmets
Arai Vector
The Vector is one of Arai's best selling helmets, with intermediate interior oval shell shape, the Vector offers great value yet still maintains the quality and prestige of the Arai Helmet family line. Solid Colors, or Graphics (Wraithen, Dani Corsa, Contrast, Samurai, Scream, Haga, Schwantz). Arai Vector Helmets
Arai SZ Ram III
This is what Arai describe as their ultimate open face helmet. Includes a large diffuser to help control ventilation. Large shield included. Available in solid colors. Arai SZ Ram Helmets
Arai SZ m
Not your fathers open face helmet - the SZ/m features advanced detachable flip-up faceshield, Available in solid colors. Arai SZ Helmets
Arai Classic M
A more traditional open-face motorcycle helmet (without the flip-up face shield of the SZ/m). Has brow vent ducts to provide additional cooling to riders head (when not using shield). Available in solid colors. Arai Classic M Helmets
Arai XD-3
The XD3 is Arai's ground breaking design for a Dual Sport Helmet. This cross-over design street to dirt helmet improves on the original XD helmet range. The Arai XD-3 can be used for adventure touring, dual-sport, supermoto, commuting, street riding and anything else on 2 wheels. Available in solids colors or graphics (Contrast, Thierry van den Bosch). Arai XD-3 Helmets
Arai VX-Pro3
The VX Pro 3 is Arai's dirt bike helmet. Voted 'the best helmet ever tested' in Motocross Action magazine - numerous other MX magazines have rated the VX Pro-3 as the best off-road helmet on the market today. Available in solid colors and graphics (Akira, Osborne, Samurai). Arai VX-Pro 3 Helmets
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Arai Helmet Sizing Guide
NOTE: These sizing charts are provided by the manufacturer and/or distributor responsible for this brand. Atlantic Moto makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy of measurements and/or fit provided on this page.
Correctly fitting and sizing a helmet is an extremely important process. There are many factors that go into getting the right helmet size, no matter what you've "always worn". Factors like head shape, cheek thickness, crown padding, and so on go far beyond a simple size measurement. The right helmet will not only be quieter and not move around on your head, it will do a much better job of protection.
Use the charts above to determine your correct Arai Helmet Size.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ARAI MOTORCYCLE HELMET 'S 3 INTERIOR SHELL SHAPES TO YOU
After many years of customer feedback, we have found that helmet satisfaction starts with understanding - most importantly, understanding how proper fit affects helmet performance during everyday riding. And, with Arai, how that comfort extends to the actual shell shape itself, which is why we offer three different interior shell shapes. (Arai does not believe that all-day comfort can be achieved by trying to stuff every head shape into a single helmet interior shape.)
In order to offer the most comfort, a helmet must fit snugly around the entire head contour. (This is partly determined by firm, even pressure at all contact points, and without pressure points that could become uncomfortable in the future) A previous helmet of the same brand, model and size - even if an Arai - may not offer the same fit as a current model or size because the evolution of design and use of new materials can affect the final design. ( For example, such advances and refinements have made our new RX-7 Corsair and Quantum-2 shapes able to fit more riders than their immediate predecessors, the RX-7 RR4 and Quantum/f.)
Attention must be paid to the fit of the model's shape around the crown of your head and not with facial fit. (The part that is contacted by a baseball cap's band, for example, is the crown) Cheek pads in all Arai helmets can be replaced with a size that better suits your facial structure, so they should only be addressed after the crown is properly sized. All too often tight cheek pads will result in purchasing a helmet one or even two sizes too big — in effect sizing the face and not the head! The end result will be a loose and noisy helmet, as described above. (Riders with a strong jaw or heavy cheeks should first remove the cheekpads completely in order to not be distracted in determining crown fit.)
How can you determine which Arai interior shell shape is best suited for you? In general, our interiors for the North American markets have an oval shape orientation (somewhat longer front-to-back and a little narrow from side-to-side) because that is the shape that tends to fit most of us. Our different models then vary slightly based on that general Oval shape to accommodate a much wider fit range.
LONG OVAL (very long front-to-back, veroom for those who find that most helmets have pressure points in the forehead. ry narrow side-to-side). On this end of the scale, we have the new Profile model, offering additional forehead
INTERMEDIATE OVAL
(a little shorter front-to-back and a little wider side-to-side than the Long Oval). This next fit package comes in our RX-7 CORSAIR model, which begins the shift from oblong towards round.
ROUND OVAL
(even a little shorter front-to-back and a little wider side-to-side). This next fit package is represented by both our Quantum-2 and our Astral-X models.
The Astral-X has a slightly more "relaxed" fit - a bit more room in the forehead area — mainly because the Astral has a non-removable liner.
The Quantum-2's liner, on the other hand, is fully-removable, which makes it feel a bit more "round". Be sure to try both on to determine which feels better on your head.
No one pays more attention to the subtle variations and the infinite possibilities of the human head shape than Arai. And, even though we know we can never build a perfect shape for everyone, we go to the extra time and expense to make a genuine effort to offer shapes that allow more people to find a better and more comfortable fit than by simply offering one model. This is why it is important for you to understand the different aspects of sizing as it relates to brands, models and in Arai's case — interior shapes.
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Arai FAQ
Where can I buy Arai helmets in USA ?
In USA Arai motorcycle helmets are distributed by various importers. If you are searching for your nearest Authorized Arai Dealer - such as Atlantic Moto please contact the importer who is responsible for your country.
Where can I get information about prices or about the availability of Arai Helmets ?
If you require information about the availability or the prices of Arai helmets or spare parts please contact the Arai importer in USA.
Is a crashed / dropped arai helmet still safe to wear?
Current safety helmets are designed to absorb the energy of an accident by being destroyed. Even a small impact can damage the integrity of the shell or the inner liner. Quite often this damage may be unnoticeable to the untrained eye. Therefore, any arai helmet involved in an impact should not be used again.
Can I paintbrush my Arai helmet?
It is possible to repaint your Shoei helmet. You can use any colours which are not Nitro based. Please make sure that no aggressive fumes will enter the inside of the helmet.
You can also attach stickers to your helmet. They do not have any influence on the shell material.
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Arai - A Brief Company History
Arai's single-minded obsession with the comfort and safety of riders comes from their roots.
Arai alone is a family-owned helmet company started over 60 years ago by an artisan: a custom hat maker who rode motorcycles back in the 1930s. (Talk about a match made in heaven.) And the company Hirotaké Arai founded is still his family's company three generations later. Still singularly committed to that same goal.
So when you hold an Arai helmet in your hands, wear it and feel its unparalleled comfort, you know not only where it came from, but who it came from. And why. Compare this against the cold reality of an industry of big, impersonal publicly-held helmet corporations whose primary mission, by definition, is stockholder profit, not excellence at any cost.
Consider: If your family's name was on a helmet, would you be content with it being the same as everybody else's?.
Do not miss that pleasure - Buy your Arai Helmets from Atlantic Moto
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Arai USA
Number 1 in the World of Motorsports
A lot of helmet companies can make motorcycle helmets. But Arai alone can also claim the unparalleled world-class quality, reputation, and technology to be chosen by more than half the drivers on the Formula-1 grid.
Arai alone is chosen by both the 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner and the rookie of the year!
By NASCAR® heroes like Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, and Juan Pablo Montoya.
Not to mention all four current American MotoGP racers. And so on.
Which tells you just how really special and different these helmets are. Bottom line: Arai alone can dominate areas of motorsports others can't conceive of even competing in.
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Arai Technology - Handmade Quality
Every Arai helmet is virtually 100% handmade. But the obsession goes even deeper than that.
Every Arai helmet must go through three separate quality-control departments: one after the shell is made; one after painting and graphic completion; and one after assembly. This attention to detail isn't performed on every hundredth helmet, or every tenth one, but every single Arai helmet. (This kind of thing could give a profit-driven, cheaper-price helmet maker a heart attack.)
And it still goes even deeper than that: The community of Arai workers who build your helmet are so involved it's as if their family name was on the front. Their level of pride, care, and understanding of what they do - and the rider they're doing it for - is so visible you can see it in their eyes, in their concentration. They actually sign the inside of the helmet they work on. It's part of the Arai "culture," honed over those three generations. It's part of who they are, too. The Arai worker. Arai alone.
Do you think you're worth this degree of attention? Do you really think it's something you can get with just any brand?
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Arai Pursuit of Quality
As you might have figured by this point, an Arai helmet isn't the product of compromise or the dictates of profit-driven shareholders. There aren't different levels of quality to fit a given price. Fact is, we don't build Arai helmets to fit a price. We couldn't, not with everything we put into them. Not with everything you get out of them. This is Arai alone.
We don't build helmets to squeeze under the barest minimum of safety standards. We don't build "DOT" helmets, or "Snell" helmets. We build ARAI helmets. To us, Snell and DOT standards are baselines, not objectives. The starting point, not the goal.
We build your Arai helmet to our standards, toward the ideal of what "could" happen to you in an accident instead of simply what's "likely" to happen. As a result of this effort a typical Arai helmet easily meets the world's major motorcycle-helmet safety standards - with little or no modification.
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