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Off-road helmet showing the elongated sun visor and chin bar. A off-road helmet or motocross helmet is a full face helmet designed specifically for motocross and off-roading. It has clearly elongated chin and visor portions, a chin bar, and partially open face to give the rider extra protection while wearing goggles and to allow the unhindered ...
The first recorded European reference to a helmet's visor in the Middle Ages is found in the 1298 will of Odo de Roussillon, which speaks of a heume a vissere. [4] Whether this statement refers to a pivoting visor or a fixed faceplate is not clear; but by the early fourteenth century artistic depictions of moving visors appear quite frequently. [4]
Pages in category "Medieval helmets" ... Visor (armor) This page was last edited on 27 July 2013, at 13:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The helmet would be free to rotate within the gorget. English c. 1450. Between c. 1390 and 1410 the bascinet had an exaggeratedly tall skull with an acutely pointed profile – sometimes so severe as to have a near-vertical back. Ten years later both the skull of the helmet and the hinged visor started to become less angular and more rounded.
The bevor and the brow-reinforce attach to the same pivot as the upper visor, and the tail at the rear of the helmet is much shorter than in earlier forms. Barbuta sallet with decorative sheathing in the shape of a lion's head, Italian, 1475–1480, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Close helmet with grotesque visor (modern reproduction of a German helmet of c. 1520 style) From the 1520s a new, almost universal, variety of close helmet was developed. The previous forms of one-piece visor were replaced by a more complex system of face covering. The visor was split, below the eye-slits, into two independently pivoting parts.