This first helmet design has a silver base colour with pattern being formed in 'Exclusive Line Monte Carlo Magic' and Monza Red- these are 'multi-chromatic' colours that flip through a range of colours as light falls on it (what appears as black in the photo actually flips from purple/blue to green) giving a subtle but eye-catching effect - unlike all our other colours they cannot be formulated (mixed from other pigments) -they are part of an exclusive range costing eight times that of other paints!

The design has been augmented by adding fluorescent green and red bubbles, on the rear of the helmet is a cartoon of Yosemite Sam(see the helmet gallery for a picture).

The helmet here belongs to Callum Ramsey a rider in the 250GP British championship. It has a candy red base with a candy blue design edged with chrome.

All our helmets undergo the same processes:-

PREPARATION: all linnings, pods & scoops are removed. The helmet is then buffed down, and primed.

PAINTING: a suitable base coat is applied and the pattern is put on, either masking by hand or using computer-cut masking vinyl. Graphics, logos and cartoons are all painted on. The whole helmet is painted so that if pods or scoops are removed the pattern is still there.

FINISHING: the helmet is laquered, the pods etc. are replaced and the helmet is finally buffed to a highly polished "billiard ball" finish

This is John Crawford's racing helmet (riding for the works Suzuki team in the British superbikes)

The base colour is a bluish purple candy - the large flames are fluorescent red-to-yellow with a fluorescent red edge - the smaller flames are silver - on the back there is a cartoon crow(craw). (see the helmet gallery for a picture)

This design has kept the basic components over the years but has been tweaked(improved hopefully!) each year and will change again for the upcoming season.

Customers come to us with various ideas about how they want their helmet respray to look.

Some have exact colours, patterns, cartoon characters that they want (often a picture from a magazine they would like copied).Others leave it up to us - saying perhaps that they "just want something wild".

This crash helmet illustrates the middle ground - the customer wanted a lion rampant on the front and a frog in a diving suit on the rear (he was a diver working in the oil industry).

The latter way is usually the best way to achieve a good paintjob - the customer gets what they want and we get to tailor the design for maximum effect (adding extra touches here like the beach, sea and oil rig).