how does your helmet stand up

macdee · Post by **macdee** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:09 pm

to this test

http://sharp.direct.gov.uk/

Mav617 · Post by **Mav617** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:13 pm

Pretty damn poor to be honest! My KBC only gets 2 stars!

Yet my cheapie standby Arashi gets 3.....

AMCQ46 · Post by **AMCQ46** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:17 pm

Schuberth SR1 = 4star

macdee · Post by **macdee** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:24 pm

Mav617 wrote:Pretty damn poor to be honest! My KBC only gets 2 stars!

pity about the helmut mav617
but good to see your still a vtr brother

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:43 pm

My hjc is17 gets a 5star :-)
And it's the best fitting helmet I've ever tried on and at only £150 :-)

darkember · Post by **darkember** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:51 pm

AGV Stealth SV 4 star rating

TravisZack · Post by **TravisZack** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:59 pm

4 stars on my Shoei Raid2. Only 1 star for my girlfriends Vemar...

StewartR · Post by **StewartR** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:52 pm

My Scorpion Exo 1000 gets four stars. My lad's Duchinni D851 isn't listed but all the Duchinnis that are score four or above which is reassuring.

That's a cool bit of internet that is

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:13 pm

Schuberth SR1 = 4star

Somethng is not right with their testing if that's 4 star. The same with my Arai that only got 4. How can they be worse than HRC or Sharp. Their tests are bullshit. And as it's coming from the goverment it's defo bullshit. Are they affiliated with Sharp somehow.

This is good enough for me
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(:-})

Mav617 · Post by **Mav617** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:19 pm

That's reassuring.

macdee · Post by **macdee** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:22 pm

ahem ahem
The CE test is laughable because is clearly defines very small areas of the helmet which have to take the specified impact. Only those small areas need any protective quality at all. The rest can be eggshell as far as the test is concerned.

As such the CE test is inferior to the BSI helmet standards that we used to have before they were outlawed by Brussels

In response to this the govt has introduced its own assessment of helmet quality: the SHARP test

there was no plagiarism hurt in the shameless robbery from an other forum

lumpyv · Post by **lumpyv** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:31 pm

cybercarl wrote:
Schuberth SR1 = 4star
Somethng is not right with their testing if that's 4 star. The same with my Arai that only got 4. How can they be worse than HRC or Sharp. Their tests are bullshit. And as it's coming from the goverment it's defo bullshit. Are they affiliated with Sharp somehow.

This is good enough for me
[youtube][/youtube]

(:-})

either that or you are being mugged off paying for the arai "label" price dosent seem to be much of a factor? caberg don't do too bad and they are cheap .

my roof only got 3 stars

macdee · Post by **macdee** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:32 pm

my helmet shoei test i think they are all the same pointed weight dropped from 3 meters height

[youtube][/youtube]

budd · Post by **budd** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:40 pm

OMG my Arai RX7 Corsair only gets 3 *** it must be shite, I think I'll rush out and buy an MT revenge
http://sharp.direct.gov.uk/testsratings/mt-revenge
£65 for a 5* helmet !! what a bargain compared to what I paid for my Arai, Polycarbonate shell must be way better than composite fibre construction, micrometric adjustment (god knows what that is ) but it's obviously much preferable to the rubbish Arai double D system, all these years biking and I thought I knew a thing or two about safety and never even considered the governments boffins would know better, what fool I feel.

#Anyone want to buy a rubbish Arai ? I won’t feel safe now until I have the MT revenge on my head.

Really? No not really this is more BS from people who don't know what they are talking about, eg there's a reason the ACU helmets stds mandate a double D fastening, it won't work loose or burst open unlike other methods of securing your lid and I’m pretty sure that polycarb shells are approved either (although I may be wrong here and this could have changed but I know for sure this used to be the case), I think I’ll put my trust in my Arai despite what the government think tanks suggest.
Anyway it could be just a way of reducing the load on the overstretched NHS, get everyone wearing the bargain 5* rated lids so they are dead before they even reach the hospital.

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:45 pm

Fantastic!!!

I can't keep up with all these tests. The BS one or CE or whatever is the latest standard is rubbish compared to the Snell one. They will change the boundaries next week for something else. As long as you wear a lid then all is good. When will they pay a bit more attention to other parts of our body. Too much concentration going on in the head area. What good is your head if you loose your body.

So sharp is the testing then. I thought it was a brand of lid.

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