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lukemillar

11-09-09 09:55 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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Originally Posted by Duckboy1989 (Post 2032748)

value my head and life more than £80! let alone £16

This is the stupidest helmet argument, but it comes up everytime.

So go out and buy a top of the line Arai - by your own rational, you're only valuing your head/life at 500 quid?

Stewart.C

11-09-09 09:55 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

took a chip just above the visor & split the shell. so said bye bye to it.

lukemillar

11-09-09 09:59 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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Originally Posted by Duckboy1989 (Post 2032803)

If you must know the helmet i want is a schuberth, has no "name" on it, but it's a bit expensive.

But if it fits you like crap - would you still buy it?

Lozzo

11-09-09 10:00 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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Originally Posted by Duckboy1989 (Post 2032803)

I looked into testing and the difference
so do some research, and actually look at the figures for helmet impact test, in particularly look at the different areas of the helmet they test, and the tooling they use to test them...... then maybe you might have a different opinion.

Did you miss the part of my post where I explained my involvement with Nitro helmets design and construction? Of all the people posting to this forum I think you'll find I'm more than likely the only one qualified to make professional calls on stuff like this. You may well be a full time engineer who knows his materials, but in the real world you know c0ck all about helmets, their construction and test proceedures.

Lozzo

11-09-09 10:02 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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Originally Posted by Stewart.C (Post 2032805)

took a chip just above the visor & split the shell. so said bye bye to it.

If the stone was big enough to do that sort of damage, I'd say the hemet did its job as designed. It saved your head from getting mullered, that's all anyone can ultimately ask of any helmet.

What make of lid was it?

Lozzo

11-09-09 10:05 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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Originally Posted by lukemillar (Post 2032804)

This is the stupidest helmet argument, but it comes up everytime.

So go out and buy a top of the line Arai - by your own rational, you're only valuing your head/life at 500 quid?

Easy Tiger, he's a full time engineer and stuff.

And people wonder why Britain doesn't have a manufacturing industry any longer.

Rob969

11-09-09 10:05 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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Originally Posted by Lozzo (Post 2032811)

Design and construction? don't know that many sales reps that have an input into them. I'll have to ask the car saleman tomorrow how he influenced the new model.:D

Stewart.C

11-09-09 10:12 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

it was a HJC CS-R1 samurai.

yes it did its job & as i say im glad it didnt cost me £500 all cos of a stone.

as long as it fits & you are happy wearing it what does it really matter.

Lozzo

11-09-09 10:13 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

I may well have been employed as an area sales manager, but at Nitro you get involved in all manner of stuff during your time with them. It's a really interesting firm to work for.

We'd be shown prototype helmets and asked our opinions, then as a sales force we'd suggest modifications. That's where we'd be told why they could or couldn't go ahead with the mods, and why they may fail testing if we were to incorporate our mods. I have seen helmets tested at an independent test facility, and they really are quite rigorously gone over.

Nitro are a very open minded and young thinking firm, the 3 joint MDs are all under 30 years old and have been running the firm for the past 7 years at least, with guidance from their father. While I was with them the youngest MD was still studying for his degree.

Duckboy1989

11-09-09 10:15 PM

Re: £16 Helmet on Ebay

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But if it fits you like crap - would you still buy it?

Thats why i didn't get arai either. the was like a glove :) but was near 400 :(

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Easy Tiger, he's a full time engineer and stuff.

you be warned........ that "stuff" is amazing :)

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Design and construction? don't know that many sales reps that have an input into them. I'll have to ask the car saleman tomorrow how he influenced the new model.:grin:

they will know the construction and tests, and the features of it, as a car salesman knows about the airbags in a car. but its all public......

Off to bed :)

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