This is the most visible X.TR in the range: fluorescent yellow on the carbon shell, worked against grey. On a touring helmet ridden long distances in mixed weather, that is a specification rather than a preference.

Two independent tests — and where they disagree

The X.TR's independent record is unusually detailed for a helmet without a safety rating: overall 3.8/5, ventilation 5/5 measured, comfort 4/5, fit 4/5, noise 3/5 at 103 dB.

🔵 Alongside it, a second hands-on test praising the noise and flagging heat retention. We print both because they answer different questions.

About the Rush Black Neon graphic

Touring means unfamiliar roads, tired drivers and long stretches in whatever light the day supplies — and fluorescent pigment is the only colour that keeps its advantage as that light degrades. It converts ultraviolet into visible light rather than merely reflecting it, which is why it holds up in overcast, at dusk and in rain where ordinary colours flatten out. Against a grey ground it stays legible without the helmet looking like workwear. 🔵 The trade is durability: fluorescent fades faster than any other pigment under sustained sun, and no care regime stops it entirely.

The X-PRO Carbon shell

🔵 What carbon does not do is make a helmet safer by itself. Approvals, EPS structure, visor system and every feature are identical between the two shells here. What it does is take off 125 g.

The construction is X-PRO Carbon, claimed at 1625 g, over the same two-part Anti-Vibration EPS.

X-Block N'Seal — a visor that locks

🔵 Order visors and lenses by designation rather than by helmet name. This helmet uses the Pinlock 120 XLT MaxVision lens, a higher-clarity grade than the 70 used elsewhere in Nexx's range, and the lenses do not interchange.

One is fitted from new; a second clear visor is supplied alongside it.

The ultra-wide sun visor

Keep the sun shield as clean as the outer visor. It is the surface closest to your eyes, easy to forget because it lives inside the shell, and a fingerprint on it is far more visible than one outside.

🔵 Clean it wet, never dry. It is ultra-wide and drops to just above the bridge of the nose.

Anti-Vibration EPS — two shells and a rubber layer

🔵 If you have ridden a long motorway day you know the sensation this addresses: a fine shimmer through the helmet that is neither noise nor buffeting but leaves you tired at the end of it.

The X.TR damps it with a rubber layer between the inner and outer EPS.

Two intakes, two chambers — and a 5/5 measurement

Only two exhausts sounds thin next to a 5/5 result, and the explanation is the internal path: air moves through the gap between the EPS shells and through the crown chamber rather than relying on outlet area alone.

🔵 The measured interior delta was zero degrees.

Chin curtain, neck roll and how quiet it 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 — which is precisely why two competent reviewers reached different conclusions about this helmet.

Measured: 103 dB at 130 km/h. Described separately as minimal.

Interior, retention and fit

🔵 Fit is the specification that matters most and the one no description settles for you. A loose helmet moves under braking and rotates in a crash; a tight one produces a headache at forty minutes.

Try it on and keep it on for ten minutes. Both independent tests found this helmet true to size.

1625 grams, and the rest of the honest list

🔵 No independent safety rating exists for this helmet in either shell. SHARP has no X.TR entry; there is no ADAC or Snell result. Untested rather than poorly rated, but a gap in the evidence.

Measured: overall 3.8/5, ventilation 5/5, comfort 4/5, fit 4/5, noise 3/5 at 103 dB. Carbon shell: 1625 g.

Comms, camera and spare parts

The serviceable parts list on this helmet: both visors, Pinlock 120 XLT lenses, cheek pads, crown pad, chin-strap covers, the breath guard, the chin curtain and the internal sun visor.

🔵 Between them they cover everything except the shell and the two-part EPS — neither of which is replaceable after an impact.

In the box

• Nexx X.TR helmet — Rush Black Neon (X-PRO Carbon shell)
• Clear visor with Pinlock® 120 XLT MaxVision anti-fog lens fitted
• Second clear visor
• Removable breath guard and chin curtain, fitted
• 🔵 No X-COM3 comms system and no action camera — the helmet is built for both; both are separate purchases
• 🔵 No photochromic visor — available separately

Size guide

Specification

• Model — Nexx X.TR
• Part number — 01XTR23519984
• Colour — Rush Black Neon — Rush graphic on carbon, grey / neon yellow
• Homologation — ECE 22-06 (UN) · DOT FMVSS 218 · CCC GB811:2022 · NBR7471:2015
• 🔴 Safety rating — none — SHARP has no entry for the X.TR; no ADAC or Snell result either
• Independent verdict — scored road test 3.8/5 — ventilation 5/5 (measured 0 °C delta), comfort 4/5, fit 4/5, noise 3/5 at 103 dB. 🔴 A second hands-on test called the wind noise „minimal" but found the insulation stuffy in hot weather
• Helmet type — Full-face, sport-touring
• Shell — X-PRO Carbon; three outer shell sizes (XXS–S / M–L / XL–XXXL)
• Weight — 1625 g claimed — 🔴 no independent weigh-in exists
• Sizes — XXS to XXXL (eight sizes)
• Impact liner — two-part EPS with a rubber Anti-Vibration interlayer
• Visor — X-Block N'Seal locking visor plus the Recoil mechanism; panoramic view opening
• Supplied optics — Pinlock® 120 XLT MaxVision lens fitted, plus a second clear visor
• Visor options — photochromic visor available separately
• Sun visor — ultra-wide internal drop-down, reaching to just above the bridge of the nose
• Ventilation — two intakes / two exhausts plus the patented Mid Airflow Chamber and the Air Cumbs cooling chamber
• Aerodynamics — aerodynamic rear spoiler and an anti-noise neck roll; large chin curtain
• Emergency release — F.R.S.® Fast Release System — both cheek pads release together, tool-free
• Retention — metal micrometric ratchet buckle
• Interior — X-Mart Dry, removable and washable; removable breath guard
• Head shape — intermediate oval — found true to size in both independent tests
• Communication — X-COM3 ready with Mesh 3.0 / New Wave networking; sold separately
• Camera — side action-camera mount — camera sold separately
• Other — moulded night-vision reflectors

• 1x helmet (X-PRO Carbon, three shell sizes)
• 1x Pinlock 200 MaxVision anti-fog lens (fitted)
• 1x clear visor + 1x second (Smoke 80%) visor
• Side action-camera mount; wind deflector / breath guard