Grey and black with fluorescent yellow is the high-visibility FURKA, and it takes the opposite approach to the KEYO White Neon: a dark, dirt-hiding ground with the bright element used as an accent rather than a field.

Anti-Vibration EPS — two shells and a rubber layer

🔵 A structural comfort feature is rarer than a padding one and harder to undo with a bad liner choice. The X.WED3's rubber interlayer between inner and outer EPS works regardless of which cheek pads you fit or how you have set the vents.

Its purpose is damping the vibration that air turbulence transmits at speed — a fatigue problem rather than a safety one.

About the FURKA Grey Neon graphic

There is a real argument for putting fluorescent on a dark ground rather than a pale one. The dark areas absorb the dust and spatter that make a bright helmet look neglected within a day, while the fluorescent keeps working in exactly the conditions where dark colours fail — overcast, dusk, deep shade, dust haze. The result is a helmet that stays visible and stays looking cared for, which no fully bright finish manages on a real trip. 🔵 Fluorescent pigment still fades faster than any other type under sustained UV, and there is no care regime that stops it — only storage out of direct light slows it.

The X-PRO Carbon shell and the X-Foam bumpers

🔵 If you are weighing carbon against composite in this range, the honest summary is: 65 g on paper, a noticeable step in price, and no difference in approvals, features, EPS structure or bumper protection.

The carbon shell is X-PRO Carbon at 1725 g claimed; the composite is X-Matrix2 at 1790 g.

F.R.S.® — both cheek pads at once

Removing a full-face helmet from someone lying injured means getting it past the jaw, and the cheek pads are what makes that difficult. Take them out first and the helmet lifts almost straight off.

🔵 F.R.S.® makes that a single tool-free action rather than two separate ones: rubberised arms up, red buttons back, both pads free.

Recoil visor, sun visor and the second shield in the box

Nexx supplies the anti-fog lens fitted rather than boxed, which sounds like a detail and is not: a Pinlock lens installed at the factory sits on correctly tensioned pins, where a badly seated one distorts and leaks air at the edges.

🔵 When it eventually clouds, order the Pinlock 70 MaxVision for this helmet rather than a generic insert.

Seven intakes — and a measurement that disagrees

The intakes on this helmet are large and physically obvious, which is a deliberate off-road decision: a vent you can find and operate in gloves matters more than one that is aerodynamically neat.

🔵 All seven close. The measured cooling result from the one independent scored test available was 1 out of 5.

How loud it actually is

🔵 Do not compare decibel figures across publications. Method, speed, motorcycle and screen all change the number, and there is no standard for helmet noise measurement.

The X.WED3's 103 dB at 130 km/h and 3/5 score come from one independent road test and are most useful against that test's other results.

Interior, materials and fit

Three outer shell sizes across eight helmet sizes is generous and it is what keeps the smallest X.WED3 from feeling oversized. XXS–S, M–L and XL–XXXL each get their own shell.

Inside every one: Air Cumbs crown pad with alveolar mesh, X-Mart Dry liner, faux leather and mesh trim, and F.R.S. cheek pads.

1725 grams, and the rest of the honest list

🔵 If you are cross-shopping, weigh this against the trade Nexx made. The X.WED3 is heavier than most adventure helmets because of the Anti-Vibration EPS and the Mid Airflow Chamber — the two features that make it distinctive.

Claimed weight 1725 g; measured ventilation 1/5; measured noise 103 dB; no SHARP rating.

Goggles, comms, camera and spare parts

Genuine parts matter more on a helmet than on most things, because the visor, the peak and the retention system are part of what was certified to ECE 22-06. A pattern part that behaves differently is not the helmet that was approved.

Everything we stock for the X.WED3 is Nexx's own.

In the box

• Nexx X.WED3 helmet — FURKA Grey Neon (X-PRO Carbon shell)
• Visor with Pinlock® 70 MaxVision anti-fog lens
• Second visor
• Peak, fitted — plus a screwless peak extensor
• 🔵 No goggles — the aperture takes them, the helmet does not include them
• 🔵 No X-COM3 comms system and no POV camera kit — the helmet is built for both; both are separate purchases

Size guide

Specification

• Model — Nexx X.WED3
• Part number — 01XE323487895
• Colour — FURKA Grey Neon — FURKA graphic on carbon, grey / black / neon yellow
• Homologation — ECE 22-06 (UN) · DOT FMVSS 218 · CCC GB811:2022 · NBR7471:2015
• Safety rating — 🔴 none — SHARP has not tested the X.WED3; no ADAC or Snell result either
• Helmet type — Adventure — tool-free 3-in-1: adventure, road full-face, or goggle setup
• Shell — X-PRO Carbon; three outer shell sizes (XXS–XXXL)
• Weight — 1725 g claimed by Nexx — 🔴 not independently weighed
• Sizes — XXS to XXXL (eight sizes)
• Impact protection — two-part EPS with a rubber Anti-Vibration interlayer, plus X-Foam EPP bumpers on the chin and sides
• Visor — Recoil Visor System — spring-loaded base side-plates tensioning against twin-lip beads, independent of the peak mount
• Supplied optics — Pinlock® 70 MaxVision lens included and a second visor in the box
• Sun visor — internal, 18 % larger than the previous generation, drops to just above the bridge of the nose
• Peak — three-stage adjustment, tool-free removal via anti-twist fixing screws; screwless peak extensor included
• Ventilation — seven closable intakes / four exhausts plus the patent-pending Mid Airflow Chamber between the inner and outer EPS
• 🔴 Ventilation, measured — scored 1/5 in an independent road test — the lowest mark on its scale, against seven intakes on paper
• Noise, measured — 103 dB average at 130 km/h, scored 3/5
• Overall, measured — 3.4/5; comfort 3.5/5; fit true to size, intermediate-to-long oval
• Emergency release — F.R.S.® Fast Release System — both cheek pads release together, tool-free
• Interior — Air Cumbs crown pad with alveolar mesh, X-Mart Dry liner, faux leather with ventilation-mesh inserts
• Retention — double-D ring with X-LOCK magnetic strap catch
• Goggles — goggle-strap holder integrated into the rear shell, folds away when unused
• Communication — X-COM3 ready — fully integrated earphones, battery, cable slots, microphone, Bluetooth 5.2; sold separately
• Camera — POV Kit ready — top mount (with or without the peak), removable side mount, four-position chin mount; sold separately
• Other — moulded night-vision reflectors

• 1x helmet (X-PRO Carbon, three shell sizes)
• 1x Pinlock 120 XLT MaxVision anti-fog lens (fitted)
• 1x clear Recoil visor + 1x second (dark smoke) visor
• 1x peak + peak extensor + extra peak screws
• POV camera mounts (top / side / chin)
• Wind deflector, road covers, visor-mechanism covers, strap-holder cover, visor bag, winter chin filter