If you spend much time traveling on any type of non-motorcycle transportation these days, then you'll already have some idea of just how many of those little hardside rollie bags there are in the wild. From long-haul bus rides to Amtrak to every major airport (of course), they're absolutely everywhere. Kids have them. Adults have them. Adults pushing kids that are riding on top of the rollie cases like they're toy horses with tiny wheels for feet? I bet you've seen it already.
Add that together with our current flavor of nostalgic cultural tilt toward the 1990s and noughties, and perhaps you begin to unravel Shoei's decision to test its X-Core hardside rollie case design with a 500 km/h bullet. Call the X-Core La Roux, because according to the marketing materials, it's bulletproof, baby!
The X-Core relies on a glass-fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) shell, which of course those who pay attention to motorcycle gear will probably recognize from countless descriptions of new helmet releases. Proprietary formulas being what they are, Shoei doesn't go into any more additional detail than that, but instead uses examples like its steadfastness against bullets to speak to its hardcore level of robustness.
