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Cougar

Rated by: blue-green-66 on 2007-04-20 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Cougar in Unknown Tag: 'cat_linked'

Pros: Cheap, Good protection
Cons: Cheap - Rough - Needs improvements

A Z1 copy, but not anywhere near the quality. The velcro tightening system, is a rip off from skysystems that doesn't have the same quality and fell away from the helmet. I had to glue it back onto the helmet, which looked messy. Neck strap is good though.

The visor is not good. I'm not sure what they talk about in regard to the anti fogging, as it fogged up all the time on the lens that came from the factory and scratched very quickly. The visor bolts were poor and wore out, causing it to flip up in freefall.

I had to make some big mod's to get this helmet up to scratch. I changed the visor bolts and added rubber O rings to tighten the visor. Glued neck tightening material (as previously mentioned) Replaced visor with thicker plastic made up by myself and added my own anti fogging which worked. Had some adjustments to the interior padding around the mouth, so I could actually blow air out of the helmet, which helped stop it from fogging.

The paint work looked awesome at first, but then it cracked and looked pretty average.

A friend of mine has a later model, which appears to have fixed some of these problems, but overall it is a cheap helmet and you get what you pay for.

I have since sold it, to some poor chap and bought a friends brand new oxygen A3 which didn't fit him and am much happier now, which has better visual than the cougar.

On the positive side; it was a reasonably comfortable helmet, and will still protect your head and face fairly well, if you spud in on a bad landing or get creamed in the air by some idiot divebomber.

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