Never place your helmet upside down on a hard surface...

[doggone]

Something I do wonder about is how stable the plastic is if exposed regularly to UV even in store if not in a dark place.

[stinkwheel]

Always put it upside down if you are in a tent or water will wick up through the groundsheet into the lining.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Bhud]

No matter what you do, someone will say you're doing it wrong. There's always someone who wants to tell you what to do, in any sphere of activity. Always.

I like my current helmet, and I've had it for a couple of years now. I left it upside down on my bike seat one day, and it rolled down onto the tarmac. A drop of about 70-ish cm. It rolled a little way on the tarmac. I picked it up and noticed something weird. The surface at the back of the helmet had a crack in it. I flaked it away and saw that my helmet wasn't black as I had thought - it was white. The helmet had a sort of thick, hard coating which was like paint. Beneath it was a shiny white shell - the actual helmet itself. Am I replacing the helmet just because of that? No.

If you drop your helmet it may develop an unsightly crack, too. However, I find it highly unlikely that a drop from a low height will compromise the helmet's effectiveness in a crash. Now, I don't know if a manufacturer started this rumour to cover their ass, but there will be all sorts of IAM and engineer types to spread it around with reasons they've come up with after the fact. It's common sense that visor scratching may occur, but visors can be replaced. I think it probably started as a case of "this helmet has a manufacturing defect because its paint/plastic/vinyl colour coating is cracking off". So where the customer might expect a scuff or a scrape, they see something that would look terrible in a claim for compo.

[1198]

I personally sit mine down carefully the right way up. It won’t roll anywhere and doesn’t scratch the paint on the top that way. However I could not give less of a shit how other people treat theirs. Sit it on the seat, tank, floor, upside down or sideways, however makes you happy. You can play football with it for me, I wouldn’t do it myself but it’s your gear and your head. Zero fucks given.

[Ayrton]

[Islander]

[virus]

People are all too overprotective over what is basically a hollow ball of polystyrene wrapped in plastic.

If the weight of holding a 4 pack of beer in it as a shopping basket in tesco and putting it gently down will damage it, then how the fuck was it going to protect my head with associated 100kg of retard attached when it hits the floor at 30+mph?


The only thing along those lines I wont do is walk along with my helmet perched ontop of my head, not for fear of it falling off but because it makes you look like a grade A bellend.
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own: 81 xs1100g...
owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[xX-Alex-Xx]

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