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Mr Pants!
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think there is a gold sticker on the back of most lids that is perferated into 4 sections, when you do a light drop like that you are supposed to remove one quater of the sticker. So on that basis, a helmet can be dropped 4 times lightly before a replacement is required..... Cool

I would not change it myself.
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Mr C
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PostPosted: 17:57 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think you may find that sticker is perforated so that it can't be removed and put on another helmet for racing

it is the Auto Cycle Union's (ACU) award rating as to whether or not a helmet is suitable (and therefore allowed) for racing and supposedly track days
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PostPosted: 18:08 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, okay, I was told ages ago it was for when it is dropped.

My mistake. Confused
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PostPosted: 19:35 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr C wrote:
otherwise why bother, you could just have a polystyrene dome surrounded by plastic like a cycling helmet and get 'em for 20 quid


To a large extent you can. Just that grp helmets are now cheap enough that sales of polycarbonate ones have pretty much disappeared.

The foam has a major job as far as impact protection goes, massively reducing the G forces your head is subjected to. It needs the hard outer cover as the polystyrene has the abrasion resistance of a strawberry mouse.

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PostPosted: 20:26 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Karen,
What sort of surface did it land on?
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PostPosted: 23:30 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Concrete flags.

She was holding it but the chin piece and her arm was more of less extended so it really didn't fall that far.
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PostPosted: 23:36 - 28 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
did you see Nakano bouncing his head twenty times off the tarmac?
so much for one impact ruining it. Arai apparently test their lids repeatedly on the same spot
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PostPosted: 09:39 - 29 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
hugo-a-gogo wrote:
did you see Nakano bouncing his head twenty times off the tarmac?
so much for one impact ruining it. Arai apparently test their lids repeatedly on the same spot


Excelent point!

Dropping a lid from a few feet doesnt give it chance to build up my momentum. so long as it is not from too much of a hight and the lid didnt land on any thing pointy, they it should be allright.
There would be little point in making equipment that couldnt stand a few knocks, expecially if it is designed to withstand a crash.
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