Motorcycle News' shotgun test of a helmet !

[Scotsman37]

Here have a look at this link as you'll be amazed at the test result

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.article&resourceId=1855923&articleCategory=NEWS_PRODUCT-NEWS

[Adam_P]

The visors on racing lids are meant to be strong enough to stop a small bullet going through them when fired at. At least the car ones are, not sure about bike ones.

That used to be the test they used to see if they could withstand a stone being flicked at them at around 200mph.

Not sure what calibre gun they used though, can't see it being more than a .22 calibre rifle. Something bigger would probably get a bit messy!
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[Scotsman37]

It maybe able to stop a bullet but how good is the shock absorbing material fitted inside in being able to help prevent concusion ?

[Zoffo]

From 10 yard the shot will be well disperced. Also depends what shot you use. Bet I could have blew the fooker to bitz

[El_Bandido]

from the pictures i though they had the helmet on the end of the shotgun. That would have been interesting

[Frost]

haha, not so long ago there was a thread in which people were daying not to buy a helmet online as it might get bumped when paced in bubblewrap, polystyrene and carboard during transport.
I bet that helmet would still sae your life even after being shot!

[BlueNinja]

Dont buy that lid!

A) Helmets are designed to break down on impact, which takes out some of the force.

B) its pretty obvious the shot has traveled through the helmet anyway, and if you shot a normal helmet at the same range, it wouldnt be a lot different because shot (ball bearings made of lead or steel) will still punch a clean hole, where as a .22, as said above, will mess it up becuase theres a lot more energy in the bullet.

if anyone has an old lid, and a .12 gauge, try it.. it wont be much different.

By looks of the shot pattern id say the range was about 35-40 yards.
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[Dom_]

I've come off once at 45, once at 35 and 3 times on a minimoto racing track. I hope my lids ok

[Danny]

[kasandrich]

I don't think this is a relevant test of a lid...........we don't wear them to protect us in the event of being shot in the head by a shotgun at 40yds do we?

The object of a helmet is to proctect your head from impact, and in the case of impact with a pointy object to prevent punturing by the pointy object allowing it to impact your head.

The outer shell is to prvent the puncturing and old it all together, the polystyrene and padding is to absorb the shock.
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[Krs]

I need that for my area

[ratcliffe]

Its a completely irrelevant test for a motorcycle crash helmet, but it is a harmless bit of fun, and does demonstrate just how hard the outer shell actually is... Quite interesting really.

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[Scotsman37]

Govan - down town Beirut !

[CcB]

Yea but that test can be flawed. How far was the shotgun when fired. you can shot people with a shotty if your 50 yards away you can survive it.

[mchaggis]

It is interesting, but only in the same way that seeing what the results of shooting anything is interesting.

Like was said, it's a publicity stunt, irrelevant to crash helmet safety really. However, (TC will certainly know) as far as I am aware, visors are tested by having ball bearings fired at them anyway.

The performance of a helmet with realistically modelled head inside is what concerns me more. I've already had my life saved by a helmet once, I'd like to think I stand a decent chance the next time.
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[kasandrich]

[Hex]

The article says it was shot from 10 yards, but the choke on the shotgun seems to be quite loose thus the largish spread.

Either way still impressive if you think about it.
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[BlueNinja]

lol this reminds me of I think it was NASA that developed a gun to shoot dead chickens and birds at airplane windows to check there strength crazy world..
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[paulthewitt]

Let me correct you.

a BRITTISH company built the chicken gun, to test commercial aircrafts windsheild strength. we sold it to the yanks at NASA, and they kept breaking the windows on their aircraft. we told them to defrost the chicken!

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