Helmets

[Beer Baron]

lol, let's settle this like children. duncan and neil helmets on, then bang your heads against each other. the first helmet to break is the loser. end of story!

I'm taking bets.

[Neil]

I'd be up for the challenge,,,trouble is the bastard has a massive height advantage.

Duncan I have a very nice cheap helmet here you can have,,,but will your fat head fit in it?.

Neil.

[Duncan]

Odd. I thought you had the biggest head around here. Perhaps you helmet cost so much so you could get one big enough to fit.

BTW I found a pic of you in your helmet from the last track day

[Topaz]

Whhhhat! those Stig helmets are awesome

Mine is a Nitro N750 VX Welsh Patriot, I will take a pic tonight, although I posted on here somewhere before...

Cost me 80pounds ($200) from a bike shop in the UK.

[Targa Tom]

Bike helmets are differnent to car helmets? Aside from some of the open wheeler helmets with small eye slots (to stop other cars poking your eyes out) can someone explain.

My Nav wears a Stilo and finds it heavy - would go peltor if to buy again. I have been wearing a Shoei Jet 101. glass open face and cost about $350.

Will maybe test full face for this year.

We wont be using HANS, because we would have to put the HANS bars in our roll cage - not this year.

Back a few years we had a deal with Nolan. They were sponsoring Alex Criville with an X-Lite. to E22 it was 1100 and something grams - trick, comfy, and lite. When Ron Angel got them tested for AS 1698(?), they required extra wire in the bucket which made them up near Arai, Shoei AGV etc.

I think you will find unless you import an fia approved european standard helmet, most of the AS helmets are similar in weight.

TT

[Topaz]

Bike helmets are differnent to car helmets?

? Dunno, but I checked the CAMS licence manual and confirmed that my helmet has the latest? ECER22-05 certification....

[Roy]

There's no way you can convince me a cheap crap helmet is as safe as a high quality one and neither is the fit or quality of the lining.

Putting aside the issue of trim materials and comfort as thats very subjective. My mate worked for Standards Australia in the test lab for about 3 years back in the late 90s. From a safety aspect and their ability to absorb energy you would be amazed that whilst all conforming, their price does not accurately represent their performance.

The fact that some of the cheaper helmets are also heavier is a good point and a genuine concern in a big accident. But feel free not to believe me when i state that some cheaper helmets are 'safer' then more expensive helmets, including the very expensive helmets. They all pass the AS requirements, but dont think cheap means just passes and expensive means walks in.

For what its worth, i have a 2 dollar head

Also, the talk that i have heard about motorcyle helmets being excluded from car events has been a supp reg thing, just like some dont allow open face helmets. I know some objections about trail bike helmets is to do with the fact that they are more likely to have sustained damage from impact in a fall on dirt.

[32vspecII]

i like my 80$ new china helmet

ive never used it yet but its cool to put on a play project gotham racing 3 on the xbox 360

[Halo a]

is motor cross helmet can be use in racing. saw in d1 video they using them.

Thanks

Mick

[Neil]

Mick,,,any helmet that is of the standard or higher and is un-damaged is all that you require as a driver. No scrutineer can knock you back.

Roy I don't doubt what your saying for one moment,,,but I'll stick with my choice of quality over cheap crap.

Oh and just for the record I don't have the biggest head around here,,,tests have proven that Duncan's head size surpasses mine by a long shot.

Neil.

[PHaT MR30]

We wont be using HANS, because we would have to put the HANS bars in our roll cage - not this year.

Greg what do you mean here exactly?

[R TUNE]

the main thing when buying a helmet is to make shore it has as1698 aproved sticker on it. this mandertory if you are going to use it on a race track. basicly the sticker says the helmet has meet sertion desing rules.

as for me

rxt open face

$80

8/10.

being a good helmet to use at calder drags and so forth. light and easy to use.

[djr81]

The CAMS approved list for helmets is far broader than just AS1698. So check the list. Many helmets worn on the track are not complied to AS1698. Like mine, for instance.

[R TUNE]

The CAMS approved list for helmets is far broader than just AS1698. So check the list. Many helmets worn on the track are not complied to AS1698. Like mine, for instance.

didn't know that thanks

[Duncan]

Well an update, I am ashamed to say my new helmet cost $200....but that brand fit best so I figured what the hell spend and extra $50

Sorry, dynamic pages in the tags are not allowed

but in red

[dontfeelcold]

I gave into peer pressure and got the current Bell RS3 and I know my head isn't worth that much. One question though, I got a medium size but will I need to get a bigger helmet once I think I am a super driver and my head grows?

[dangerous_daveo]

So without starting a new topic, I've got a few track days coming up and rather than hiring a helmet I thought buy one.

So what I found out (from the dude at revoultion racegear) that for just general track days, hire karts, and test n tune days at willowbank etc a fiberglass helmet is fine.

What he was saying is to make sure #1 it has the aust standard (which yeah might be diff to cams approval, but not all tracks are cams) then the next thing he said to make sure it has is the Snells approval.

So from what you guys know, is that what I should be looking for? It was about $200, and a motorbike shop had something similar for $260ish mark.

[leb]

Make: AGV

Model: Ti-Tech Rossi Winter Test

Purchase price: $850

Personal rating: 9.8/10

Only just got it so haven't had a good chance to properly test it.

Its extremely light.

Has ventilation system which you can adjust for both sides of the helmet.

Looks cool too

Edited June 3, 2007 by leb

[williamsf1]

Arai GP5 .... game over, its the only one to have.

[Restless 33]

I ride a bike well at least i did until a lady u-turned...OVER DOUBLE LINES... into me and flipped me over her bonnet. now i was lucky enough to have the cops a few cars back who saw everything and fined her on the spot but that's another story. ANYWAY the price i placed on my head wasn't an amazing amount but the helmet did it's job.

Make: KBC

Model: VR-1X

Paid: i think RRP is like 300 odd

now people said to me is that all you place on your head. after speaking to many people before i purchased it they said the main difference seems to be feel and weight etc. mine fitted perfectly with removable inserts. basically work out what you want it for. if you wont be wearing it for very long periods of time then it should be fine. my mate has a $1200 and it was nice but don't know if i would pay that much extra. basically you need to try all different types of brands as all will fit you differently.

that's my $2 worth looking at the length of that post lol.

best of luck mate.