The Japanese firm Shoei, one of the world reference brands in the development and manufacture of helmets, has just announced the return of the iconic acronyms “Wyvern”Well, to tell the truth, he has not confessed at all, but, according to one of the latest publications that the Japanese firm uploaded to one of its most important social networks, everything indicates that the third generation of the model will be available by the end of this month of June.
Shoei Wyvern III: A design that does not go out of fashion or unnoticed
The history of the Wyvern saga starts at the beginning of the 90s, when you marked as the American Simpson made a helmet design with their own identification features. For example, large visor, inherited from the models used in car competitions. With her, lateral vision was gained. Also the form, somewhat more elongated in the zone of the mentonera or, as is the case of the Wyvern, some air intakes as side slots that seem to be the result of the bundle of a bear.
We already know that the Japanese are very given to this type of hallmark in their products and no one can deny that, once integrated into them, they usually succeed among fans. So, as Wyvern’s first generation was a commercial success in the country of the rising sun, for 2003 came the Wyvern II, maintaining the already known forms and with the possibility of choosing up to 16 different design schemes.
Perhaps because of all this Shoei believes that the time has come to resurgence from a model as iconic as the Wyvern. To do this, in the aforementioned publication, the brand makes use of the comic characters that star in the “Storm Riders” series of Dongben Changping, wearing the first generation model at the controls of a Kawasaki ZX-9R MKII.
If we guide ourselves to the details offered by the dark silhouette of the new model, we can observe some small nuances with respect to the preceding generation. For example that the outermost front slot shows somewhat more rounded shapes. Similarly, the part of the mentonera is intuited more sharp in its design. However, we must not forget that we are facing an initial refers, so the Wyvern III could present final variations once Shoei officially present it in society.
This will be, according to the brand statement itself, At the end of June. Undoubtedly, a gift from the Japanese firm for all those lovers of Old School sports motorcycles who yearned for such a helmet model to wear their mounts.
