Bauer 8000 cage

[estovlo2 0]

What is the difference between the Tru Vision cage that comes on the Bauer 8000 helmet and the Tru Vision cages from previous models? It costs a bit more and I can't figure out why.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

The chin cup.

It's Nike Dri-Fit on the 8000.

[LkptTiger 1]

It looks like there is also some kind of strap that fixes the chin cup in position (non-floating). Can anybody confirm this? Does anybody know if the 8000 chin cup will be available for sale by itself (sepparate from the cage) ? I am getting the Itech I2 cage, but I cannot stand the Itech chin cup, so I am going to have to have something else strapped in there.

[Edge 0]

i'm sure you can get it somewhere, maybe from Bauer directly...

[Chadd 916]

i'm sure you can get it somewhere, maybe from Bauer directly...

You can never buy directly from the manufacturer.

[Edge 0]

i mean a shop having bauer sending them to the shop for him....sorry.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

Dude came in with the 8000 today. Bought it from 1800FACEOFF.com.

Love the fact that the helmet sizes smoothly. No need to yank on it anymore (5000)

[Chadd 916]

i mean a shop having bauer sending them to the shop for him....sorry.

It won't be free, you would have to buy it and you would have to go through the shop. You just don't call most manufacturers and order things, that's why there are dealers.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

Nobody will send direct.

[Edge 0]

i understand..

[Edge 0]

oh, and JR, how did 1800faceoff get 8000s so quickly?

[Chadd 916]

oh, and JR, how did 1800faceoff get 8000s so quickly?

Because they buy a lot of them, big dealers get stuff first.

[Edge 0]

I'm not possitive, but wouldn't hockeymonkey or giant be a bigger bauer dealer than 1800faceoff.com, and doesn't perani's have something to do with 1800?

[Chadd 916]

I really don't know what their booking orders were.

[Edge 0]

Thanks, because our shop usually recieves things about the same time as Perani's...so just wondering I NEED A NEW HELMET!

[Chadd 916]

Thanks, because our shop usually recieves things about the same time as Perani's...so just wondering I NEED A NEW HELMET!

I think it's too late for a new helmet, the brain damage has already been done.

[Edge 0]

Hey, that wasn't nice. I won't take that personally;)

[estovlo2 0]

So the 8000 helmet has that same lining as the 5000 right?

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

It is EPP foam but different gel padding.

[GekigangarIII 0]

Is the helmet slimmer looking? My only two beefs with the 5000 were that it made your head look like a mushroom, and the gel pads eventually come off...

I don't think anything can compare to a properly fitted carbster (which I use) but how is it comfort wise? The little strappy-deal on the back of the neck bothers me.. I had a ccm helmet that had one of those and it was the most annoying piece of fluff I'd ever seen in a helmet, it was promptly ripped out.

[estovlo2 0]

My problem was that the gel pad in the front got flattened after a while so there wasn't a whole lot of comfort at the front of the helmet.

[Edge 0]

Ok, Chadd, we just got new today that we have 50 of them coming early next week, so looks like the arrival of these helmets is coming sooner than most thought.

[Next Sakic 0]

does anyone have a pic

[Chadd 916]

Ok, Chadd, we just got new today that we have 50 of them coming early next week, so looks like the arrival of these helmets is coming sooner than most thought.

They said June/July delivery at the expo.

[Whip 0]

It says the 8000 helmet allows for adjustment of the width, if this is true could it be adjusted to as wide as the CCMs?