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You cannot talk about the X1 Alpha without talking about the Krios Pro.

Now before the X1 came along earlier this year, the Krios Pro was Klim's adventure-helmet offering, but here's the thing. In our view it wasn't really an adventure helmet, certainly not in the way we understand an adventure helmet here in Europe, where very few adventure bike riders ever venture off the main highway. In our book, the Krios Pro was a pretty serious, off-road helmet. And that's why we never really thought that it worked over here as an adventure helmet.

We got in to deep water with Klim over the views we expressed about the Krios Pro in one of our reviews, but in our opinion it just wasn't up to the role that many people expected it to fulfill. Klim makes some very special gear; gear that is created to a specific brief; gear that they design in-house; gear that they construct using the best components; gear that is made to the highest standards.

But for us the Krios Pro, whilst exceedingly trick, never hit the spot. The shell was a standard, off-the-shelf jobbie from UVEX. It came in two sizes only; never the mark of a premium helmet. The cheekpads felt as though they were filled with marshmallows. The seal of the visor against the shell was such that it wasn't great in the rain. And although Klim was the first helmet maker to truly commit to Koroyd as a replacement for the traditional eps liner, the result was a helmet that was noisier to ride in than a Bell Bullitt. Okay, I admit it, I’m exaggerating a little. Nothing is noisier than a Bell Bullitt, but you get my point!

Of course, this didn't prevent a lot of people raving about the Krios, although I suspect that many were seduced more by its sexy features than by its wearability. And it cannot be denied that on paper the Krios Pro more than stacked up. Coming in at just 1350g., (in size Medium in a graphic), you had to tie it down to prevent it getting blown away by a passing gust of wind. You got a super-neat Fidlock fastener for the chin strap that blew most peoples' minds. And even though, as with many adventure helmets, you didn't get a drop-down, sun visor, you did get in the box a Photochromic visor that darkened in the light. Bear in mind that you'd pay over £200 for the same kind of thing for a Shoei helmet, and it made the Krios's hard-to-justify price, seem slightly more palatable.

Truth be told, wisely or not, in the shop we would always try not to sell somebody the Krios Pro. Or perhaps more accurately we would always go to great lengths to manage their expectations. And that was because we wanted to make it less likely that somebody would bring the helmet back because it let the rain in, or because they found it excessively noisy.

Despite our best efforts, we still somewhat surprisingly sold quite a few. Some people love everything about Klim. And at times, as we know, love can be blind!

Now we have our fingers crossed that the new X1 is going to be more on point. And everything we can see, and everything we have been told by Klim, suggests that they have gone to huge lengths to try and make the X1 the ultimate 'adventure-touring' helmet. And importantly this is the first helmet that Klim has described a helmet as being designed for ‘adventure touring’. Now Klim is never going to acknowledge in a million years that the Krios Pro is not, or was not, a proper adventure helmet, but what is clear with the X1 is that Klim has designed a helmet to work as well on the road, and for touring, as it might do off it.

But here's the thing. I am going to tell you everything that we know about the helmet. I will be attempting to sort the wheat from the chaff; and that's important because Klim knows as well as anyone how to spin a bit of a yarn. If they brought out a new pen, they would need at least a thousand words and 20 bullet points to describe its properties. Most of those would be so full of jargon, however, that they'd be difficult to decipher. But we've been doing this long enough to believe that we can make a reasonable fist of cutting through any manufacturer’s rhetoric. I’m hoping, therefore, that we can do a reasonable job of imparting only the important stuff.

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