The facts.
| Helmet type | Open-face (jet), touring |
|---|---|
| Certification | ECE-R 22.06 |
| Shell | AIM (Advanced Integrated Matrix) |
| Shell sizes | 3 (XS–M | L | XL–XXL) |
| Retention | Micro-ratchet, stainless steel |
| Visor | CJ-2 panoramic, >99% UV, lockable, Pinlock EVO ready |
| Sun visor | QSV-2 integrated, stepless |
| Communication | SHOEI COMLINK — prepared for SENA SRL3 Mesh |
| Colour / finish | White / gloss |
| Weight | approx. 1,400 g (Shoei specification; varies by size) |
DescriptionThe whole story▼
Please note: sale to France is prohibited.
White has a particular logic on an open-face helmet used in town, which is where most jets spend their lives. Urban riding is where a rider is least expected and most often looked through — and white is the shade a driver's eye resolves first at a junction.
What MOTORRAD measured, and how
Twenty jet helmets, one comparison, and a „very good" verdict for this one — MOTORRAD, issue 21/2025. Worth knowing how they arrived at it: laboratory testing at TÜV Rheinland and acoustic measurement at 100 km/h in Schuberth's wind tunnel, rather than opinion gathered on a ride.
🔵 MOTORRAD awards worded verdicts, not school grades. Any numeric „score" you find for this helmet is a third-party conversion, not the magazine's own result.
About the gloss white finish
The conspicuity argument is stronger for a jet than for a touring full-face, because the riding is different. Motorway traffic sees you coming for several seconds; a driver pulling out of a side road has a fraction of one, in poor light, against a cluttered background. In that situation a white helmet at head height is the single most useful bright object you can carry, and it sits well above the headlight where the eye actually scans. There is a thermal benefit too, and on an open-face it compounds: a pale shell reflects solar energy that a dark one converts to heat, and with three intakes and three exhausts already moving air, the helmet stays genuinely cool. The cost is visible dirt — white shows a wet week in a way grey simply does not.
What an open-face helmet does and does not do
An honest paragraph before anything else. This helmet protects the skull; it does not protect the face. ECE 22.06 has a separate, less demanding test regime for open-face helmets precisely because there is no chin bar to test, and no certification changes what is physically absent.
🔵 If chin protection matters to you, the GT-Air3 shares this helmet's sun visor and acoustics in full-face form.
AIM, three shells, and a buckle that will not open by accident
Three shell sizes on an open-face helmet is a specification most manufacturers skip, because jets are a lower-margin format and tooling is expensive. The consequence of skipping it is visible: a one-shell jet in a small size sits high and wide on the head, which is exactly the look people mean when they call a helmet a mushroom.
The J-Cruise 3 uses three tools across XS to XXL, in an AIM fibreglass composite.
CJ-2 and QSV-2 — and the Pinlock that is not in the box
A spoiler edge along the top of the CJ-2 keeps draught from creeping in over the visor, and a lock prevents it opening unintentionally at speed — two details that matter specifically on a jet, where there is no chin bar to shelter the aperture and the airflow reaches the visor edge directly.
🔵 The helmet is Pinlock EVO ready; the DKS105 lens is a separate purchase.
Three in, three out — the rebuilt ventilation
Seventy per cent more extraction is a specific number and worth reading correctly. Extraction is the exhaust side of a ventilation system, and it is the half that actually determines flow — air does not enter a helmet because the front vents are open, it enters because the low-pressure region behind the shell is pulling it out at the back.
Three intakes and three exhausts, reworked from the previous generation.
Interior, ear pads and talking to the helmet
Ear pads on a jet do more work than they do on a full-face. With no chin bar, turbulence from beneath the shell reaches the ear region directly rather than being partly blocked — so the pads are the main acoustic component the helmet has, and taking them out is a noticeable change rather than a marginal one.
They are removable, which makes it a seasonal decision: in for winter and motorway, out for hot city riding.
Where it sits in Shoei's range
The comparison worth making is not against the other jet but against the GT-Air3 fifty euros above it. Both share the QSV-2 sun visor, the AIM shell and the COMLINK interface; one has a chin bar and one does not.
That is the entire decision, and it is a protection question rather than a value one.
| Model | Type | From |
|---|---|---|
| J.O2 | Jet | from 399 € |
| Glamster06 | Full-face (retro) | from 469 € |
| J-Cruise 3 | Jet (premium) | from 549 € |
| GT-Air3 | Full-face (sport-touring) | from 599 € |
| Neotec 3 | Flip-up (P/J) | from 669 € |
| X-SPR PRO | Full-face (racing) | from 799 € |
Around 1400 grams, and the rest of the honest list
Weight is the specification where this helmet wins outright. At roughly 1400 g it is around three hundred grams lighter than Shoei's touring full-face and three hundred and fifty lighter than the modular — a difference your neck registers over a long day far more clearly than any of the other numbers on this page.
The costs are a missing chin bar, a Pinlock sold separately and an intercom sold separately.
When something wears out
The interior decides how long a jet lasts you, and it wears faster than a full-face interior does — not from longer exposure but from more frequent handling. A helmet put on and taken off five times a day accumulates friction on the cheek pads that a touring helmet worn once a day does not.
All padding is removable, washable and available separately.
In the box
- Shoei J-Cruise 3 helmet — White
- Helmet bag
- Instruction manual and ECE approval documentation
- 🔵 No Pinlock® lens — the visor is DKS105-ready, the lens is sold separately
Size guide
| Size | Head circumference |
|---|---|
| XS | 53–54 cm |
| S | 55–56 cm |
| M | 57–58 cm |
| L | 59–60 cm |
| XL | 61–62 cm |
| XXL | 63–64 cm |
Specification
- Model — Shoei J-Cruise 3
- Part number — 13.10.001.2
- Colour — White — Gloss white
- Homologation — ECE 22.06, open-face category
- Independent verdict — MOTORRAD „very good" (issue 21/2025, twenty-helmet jet comparison; laboratory work at TÜV Rheinland, noise measured at 100 km/h in Schuberth's wind tunnel)
- 🔴 Chin protection — none — this is an open-face helmet and has no chin bar
- Helmet type — Jet / open-face
- Shell — AIM (Advanced Integrated Matrix) fibreglass composite; three shell sizes (XS–M / L / XL–XXL)
- Weight — approx. 1400 g
- Sizes — XS to XXL (six sizes)
- Visor — CJ-2 panoramic, distortion-free into the periphery, blocks over 99 % of UV, spoiler edge, lock against unintended opening
- Anti-fog — Pinlock® EVO ready — DKS105 lens available separately, NOT supplied
- Sun visor — QSV-2, integrated, stepless, covers almost the entire usable field of view
- Impact liner — multi-part EPS whose elements absorb differently
- Retention — stainless steel micro-ratchet, one-handed, with a minimum release angle against accidental opening
- Ventilation — three intakes and three exhausts, roughly 70 % more extraction than the previous model
- Interior — fully removable and washable; removable ear pads for noise reduction
- Head shape — intermediate oval
- Communication — SHOEI COMLINK with pre-routed cabling for the SENA SRL3 Mesh (sold separately)
- Serviceability — visor, sun visor and all padding available as separate parts
What's includedEverything in the box▼
- 1x helmet
- 1x Shoei helmet bag
- 1x set of spare Pinlock pins
- 1x maintenance tool
- Shoei logo stickers and silicone oil
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentBy head size — not by bike▼
The kit studio.
Rated. Certified. Lit.
“Comfortable, quiet enough for city speeds and beautifully finished. The price is the whole argument: five MT jets cost less than one of these.”
— the Inter-Pace crewECE 22.06.
AIM shell in three sizes.
Enlarged QSV-2 sun visor and Comlink for the SENA SRL3.
1,400 g.
Three adjustable top vents and a large rear exhaust.
Wide port, Pinlock-prepared — the lens is not in the box.
Shoei's best padding; nothing here comes close.
106 dB measured — loud, as open helmets are.
Three shell sizes.
549 € — by far the most expensive helmet in this category.
549 € — Premium. Hover the bar for each range. Value is scored against the scooter field, not in the abstract.
J-Cruise 3 vs —
Compare the grid.
| MT-Helmets Viale SV S63 | MT-Helmets Le Mans 2 SV S61 | Nexx Y.1061 | MT-Helmets Cosmo SV60 | MT-Helmets Street S54 | Shoei J-Cruise 352 | Nexx X.G30 Carbon48 | Shoei J.O248 | Nexx X.G30 Matrix47 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-Pace Rating | 63/100 | 61/100 | 61/100 | 60/100 | 54/100 | 52/100 | 48/100 | 48/100 | 47/100 |
| Level | Solid | Solid | Solid | Solid | Solid | Solid | Entry | Entry | Entry |
| Price | 72,21 € | 93,46 € | 119,99 € | 106,21 € | 46,71 € | FC1,247,000.00 | 319,99 € | 399,00 € | 159,99 € |
| Weight | 1,15 kg | 1,125 kg | 1,225 kg | 1,5 kg | 0,95 kg | 1,4 kg | 1,22 kg | 1,15 kg | 1,32 kg |
| ECE 22.06 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FIM racing | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pinlock incl. | — | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Shell | HIRP high impact resistant polymer | HIRP (High Impact Resistant Polymer) | Polyfusion shell | HIRP high impact resistant polymer | High impact resistance polymer | AIM shell | X-Pro Carbon (3K) | AIM shell | X-Matrix 2 (six-layer composite) |
| Ventilation | 9/10 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 10/10 | 0/10 | 10/10 | 4/10 | 3/10 | 4/10 |
| Comfort | 4/10 | 8/10 | 6/10 | 8/10 | 4/10 | 6/10 | 2/10 | 2/10 | 2/10 |
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Measure your head circumference about one centimetre above your eyebrows and compare it with the size chart on this page. Between sizes? Choose the smaller one — the padding beds in with use.
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Yes — the cheek pads are channelled so the arms of your glasses slide in comfortably.
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