New cooper helmet

Cool croc

Hi, I picked up one a the new cooper helmets today. Anyone have any idea where i'd pick up a kilkenny or thurles guard for them? I see the kilkenny guards are for sale online but they are €50.

Cool croc

Anyone??

shmeee

Get sorted??

I could get you hold of a Thurles guard.

Powerhurl

Hi just wondering do you know were I'd get the clips for the straps for the facegaurd, just got an old style cooper stitched from Canada and it has only 1 clip on the ear piece

Jimbobjoeyman

Powerhurl wrote: »

Hi just wondering do you know were I'd get the clips for the straps for the facegaurd, just got an old style cooper stitched from Canada and it has only 1 clip on the ear piece

Give ronan at cooper.ie an email he should sort you out there,
sound lad, sorted me out with replacement foam and the studs for the back of a helmet when I was wearing my old helmet (sk100 made in canada)

And to the op on the faceguard I'm afraid your going to have to cough up for the faceguard
Bought a sk109 myself and was in the same position just bought one on donedeal for €50 - faceguard should be arriving monday or tuesday.

Powerhurl

Thanks very much I'll do that, and for fixing them on any certin way I must do it

Cool croc

shmeee wrote: »

Get sorted??

I could get you hold of a Thurles guard.

No didnt get sorted yet, have you a Thurles guard you willing to sell?

Jimbobjoeyman

Cool croc wrote: »

No didnt get sorted yet, have you a Thurles guard you willing to sell?

I'd go for the thurles guard if I was you.
I got my kilkenny guard and it was an extreamly tight fit on the helmet.
I had to stretch it out a bit to get it to fit right.

The thurles guard I had with my old helmet was a good bit bigger and would have fit the cooper sk109 alot better

Cool croc

Jimbobjoeyman wrote: »

I'd go for the thurles guard if I was you.
I got my kilkenny guard and it was an extreamly tight fit on the helmet.
I had to stretch it out a bit to get it to fit right.

The thurles guard I had with my old helmet was a good bit bigger and would have fit the cooper sk109 alot better

Cheers for the info, trying to find a thurles guard is another thing!

Jimbobjoeyman

Cool croc wrote: »

Cheers for the info, trying to find a thurles guard is another thing!

Bloody impossible....The only reason I had one before is I bought the helmet with it.
kk guards are easily available the guy who makes them advertises them on donedeal.

The guy for thurles guards dosent advertise anywhere and theres no reference to him or a phone number anywhere on the internet.

If you cant get any info for thurles guards you could contact gerry cleere and specify than you want the kk guard to be made slightly bigger to fit the sk109 helmet.

eoghan12345

Jimbobjoeyman wrote: »

Bloody impossible....The only reason I had one before is I bought the helmet with it.
kk guards are easily available the guy who makes them advertises them on donedeal.

The guy for thurles guards dosent advertise anywhere and theres no reference to him or a phone number anywhere on the internet.

If you cant get any info for thurles guards you could contact gerry cleere and specify than you want the kk guard to be made slightly bigger to fit the sk109 helmet.

have you a number for gerry cleere ??? or the fella hu makes the thurles guards ??

Smith614

Why tamper with a guard that is covered by insurance for an inferior guard. A lot of the injuries players are receiving are because of the poor guards. Hurleys go thru the kk guards easier than the approved guards.

daniels.ducks

Smith614 wrote: »

Why tamper with a guard that is covered by insurance for an inferior guard. A lot of the injuries players are receiving are because of the poor guards. Hurleys go thru the kk guards easier than the approved guards.

Better vision. Gerry Cleere guards are of the same quality if not better... certainly not inferior.

Smith614

Speak to the mycro lads and u will see the majority of injuries are received with non-compliant guards. If Cleeres guard is so great then why is it not allowed on mycro, Marc, cooper , azzurri helmets by the safety standards?

daniels.ducks

Smith614 wrote: »

Speak to the mycro lads and u will see the majority of injuries are received with non-compliant guards. If Cleeres guard is so great then why is it not allowed on mycro, Marc, cooper , azzurri helmets by the safety standards?

o be honest i'd rather risk lose my eye than wear a mycro guard. Christ they are bad. Can't see anything that is directly in front of them. I don't see the problem with Cleeres guards that makes them that much less safe than mycro guards

Jimbobjoeyman

A hurley is not going to go through a cleere guard nor is a sliotar.
My cleere guard has saved me from quiet a few nasty knocks this season.
So its by no means inferior to other guards,
If it didn't do the job its designed for in the first place why would people keep buying them ?

The only flaw I find with the is that they sit a little too close to the face this improves vision but I'd rather a little bit more distance.

NiallM8

A man named Martin Doyle makes the thurles guard I think

Supersonic1993

NiallM8 wrote: »

A man named Martin Doyle makes the thurles guard I think

Anyone know where a Thurles Guard might be sourced? Seem very hard to get a hold of and with your man Gerry Cleere packed up shop tis tough enough to get a proper faceguard... Or even a kilkenny faceguard, if anyone knows of any going

mickey1985

Any luck getting one of these?

Cool croc

No luck at all!

dbookle

Brian Walsh sells kk gaurds in Wexford and there's also a lad in offaly that makes another version of the Kilkenny gaurd