How bl00dy much !!!!!

Fancy a new lid?
Take a peep at this.......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ARAI-RX-7-RC-R...item20b2f28e06

Saw that the other week. There's a few on there that are around that price. I think some of them are typos.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by WeegieBlue

Saw that the other week. There's a few on there that are around that price. I think some of them are typos.

Not typos, they ARE carbon fibre and availacle in shops

http://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/moto...3110?r=Froogle

So how come HJC can do it for a tenth of the price?

Originally Posted by Berlin

So how come HJC can do it for a tenth of the price?

you can see there is a different weave between the helmets and I imagine the HJC one will most likely be either a carbon-fibre covering or just a simple (cheap) design.

A lot of effort has gone into making the Arai one (you can see that in the weave pattern) and with most things in life more man hours to make means more cost

Thats just a different cloth. The manufacturing process in the same. and I can gaurantee you that cloth doesn't make it 10 times more expensive. (even if the cloth itself was 10 times more expensive.

You can have the weave looking however you want it and it could be argued that the Arai weave is for visual appeal and is inherently weaker than the HJC

C

Originally Posted by Berlin

Thats just a different cloth. The manufacturing process in the same. and I can gaurantee you that cloth doesn't make it 10 times more expensive. (even if the cloth itself was 10 times more expensive.

You can have the weave looking however you want it and it could be argued that the Arai weave is for visual appeal and is inherently weaker than the HJC

C

I am not arguing about the strength of the weave or the cost of manufacture, but, the cost of sale to Arai because of its design over that of the HJC most likely induces the cost, also, the basic FS-10 is a £180 helmet where as the RX-7 is closer to £600, IIRC...

So, they are both tripling the price, no?

Arai will be piling on a lot more margin than HJC. What they sell it for will have a lot more to do with what they think they can get for it through the "I'm rich and I want the most bling" factor, than the cost of manufacture. I'd be prepared to bet the standard RX-7 doesn't cost three times what it costs to manufacture the FS-10 either.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Arai will be piling on a lot more margin than HJC. What they sell it for will have a lot more to do with what they think they can get for it through the "I'm rich and I want the most bling" factor, than the cost of manufacture. I'd be prepared to bet the standard RX-7 doesn't cost three times what it costs to manufacture the FS-10 either.

It doesn't.

I know from a dealer that they buy the rrp £370 Arai Chaser for £195

[mikerj]

Originally Posted by Cymraeg_Atodeg

I am not arguing about the strength of the weave or the cost of manufacture, but, the cost of sale to Arai because of its design over that of the HJC most likely induces the cost, also, the basic FS-10 is a £180 helmet where as the RX-7 is closer to £600, IIRC...

So, they are both tripling the price, no?

So do you believe that a pair of Levis also costs 10x more to manufacture than own brand jeans? The most expensive part of the Arai helmet is the Arai badge, it's as simple as that.