Your Head - Your Helmet

[RichardNew]

Here's an article I did for Vintage Motorsport magazine a few months back about helmets.



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[hcoles]

Excellent, thanks for posting.

[porschemn]

Very good!!! Thanks

[Charles Freeborn]

Timely for me. I'm in the market for a new bucket too.

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[johndaroza]

$200 helmets are not the same as $1000 helmets and not as strong. Testing is paid for buy the manufacturing co. It's the same as buying a sticker and putting on.

There is no way a $200 Helmet is as strong as a $3000 Carbon fiber helmet.

We did test on Helmets where a $200 helmet could not take a impact one time and a $3000 carbon Helmet we could not break it.

You head in the place to put money and get the fit you need for you'r head.

[RichardNew]

Both FIA and Snell are pass/fail tests. They have never graded helmets on a scale. Every company claims to be superior. None of them have ever released the results of their testing programs nor have these results been evaluated by a neutral 3rd party. At this point the only standardized testing procedures I know of are done by the FIA and the Sell Foundation.

If you did testing on helmets it would be great to share this information with us.

Richard Newton

[johndaroza]

Are test showed just like I said above the cheep helmets can be penetrated much easier!

Say a spindle breaks off and hits you'er helmet you will be far better off in a helmet that is priced over $500 then a $95 or $200 helmet that just cant take it.

My helmet is $1200 this is a good starting point for me any way.

[RichardNew]

F1 guys use a helmet for 3 races. I would have thought they got a new one for every race.

Richard Newton

[urseppos]

Arai GP6S, paid under $1k for it and the helmet is top notch !

[CCM911]

You really can not go wrong with an ARAI.