Scorps are no louder than any other helmet. They just don't flow a ton of air. Agreed.... I've never been bothered by excessive wind/road noise in mine either, or the extra weight some complain of. Fits great, & the defog shield works awesome. I'd still be wearing mine, had I not won the orange carbon fiber HJC at the Meat 'n Greet last summer Those prices on that one website above are outstanding. I paid $150 for my EXO400 + extra mirrored shield 4 years ago at the IMS in Cleveland, & thought that was a solid deal back then, for a DOT/Snell 2005 approved helmet. Don't think they'd come out with the 1000 at that point... 700 was top of the line IIRC. Couldn't touch a Snell rating for twice that back then