LS2 FF811 Vector II Carbon Helmet – Savage Chameleon

The Chameleon uses a shifting pigment: depending on the angle and the light, the Savage panels move between violet, grey and a green-tinged bronze. Photographs never quite capture it, which is either the appeal or the problem, depending on how you shop.

A carbon shell in six sizes

A 6K carbon weave forms the load-bearing shell. Carbon lets the wall stay thin without giving up impact performance, which is how a helmet with an integrated sun visor still comes in around 1400 g.

It comes in six shell sizes. Most full-face helmets make do with two or three, which means the small sizes carry more polystyrene than they need and the large ones look inflated. Six shells means your head size gets a shell built for it.

About the Savage Chameleon finish

Colour-shift paint works by interference rather than pigment, so the effect is strongest in direct sun and subtlest under cloud. Expect violet and grey to dominate at most angles with bronze appearing at the edges of curved surfaces — the spoiler and the chin bar show it best. It is the one decor in the range that genuinely looks different at every stop.

Airflow that reaches your head

Ventilation is a through-flow design: chin and top intakes feed air into channels cut through the EPS, and the rear exhausts pull it out. A breath deflector keeps exhaled air off the visor.

Three visors, one helmet

Vision is the strong suit: an oversized aperture, a scratch-resistant UV-stable screen, and the Pinlock 120 MaxVision insert supplied in the box. Changing the visor is a tool-free quick-release job.

The Twin Visor System puts a tinted sun visor inside the shell, on a slider by your left temple. It drops when the sun does and retracts fully into the EPS — no separate pair of sunglasses under the helmet.

Holding on, and letting go

Retention is a micrometric buckle in metal, adjusted once and clicked thereafter. Multi-density EPS handles different impact energies, and the emergency release system lets the cheek pads be pulled clear at the roadside.

The bit you actually touch

Comfort comes from laser-cut padding and an antibacterial X-Static silver lining — removable, washable, hypoallergenic. Recesses for the LS2 intercom are already moulded in.

In the box

• LS2 FF811 Vector II Carbon helmet — Savage Chameleon
• Carrying backpack
• Tinted visor
• Pinlock 120XLT MaxVision anti-fog insert
• Reflective stickers

That tinted visor is worth calling out: LS2 supplies a complete second screen, not just the drop-down sun visor. Between the clear visor fitted, the tinted one in the box and the internal sun visor, every light condition is covered without a further purchase.

Specification

• Shell — Carbon 6K, six shell sizes
• Weight — 1400 g (±50 g)
• Sizes — XXS to XXXXL (nine sizes)
• Homologation — ECE 22.06
• Retention — micrometric metal buckle, reinforced strap
• Visor — scratch-resistant, UV-stable, quick-release, Pinlock 120 MaxVision ready and supplied
• Sun visor — integrated Twin Visor System, tinted
• Ventilation — Dynamic Flow-Through, chin and top intakes, rear extractors, ducted EPS, breath deflector
• Liner — X-Static silver, removable, washable, hypoallergenic, laser-cut
• Intercom — prepared for the current LS2 Bluetooth system
• Finish — Savage graphic, chameleon gloss