A violent hailstorm put an end to my open face lid......it got smashed with a sledgehammer................ .........but there were some advantages to open face helmets........ .....you could still have a fag up to about 30mph.... ...and you could put them on and take them off when wearing spectacles or shades. AL
had a stag beetle hit me on the nose in my open face mod days in the 80s, felt like a punch on the nose, ficking hurt