Helmet Replacement - Do I need to?

I know that most people say that after even one off you shoul bin the helmet and buy a new one, so I guess that is the answer to the question.

However there are only scratches on mine although it did impact the floor with a bit of a thump, so replace or not?

If so what is a good/reasonably priced lid.

[rictus01]

well if it's an Arai you're laughing as you can send it away to be checked, and if not, why not ?

Cheers Mark.

It is a nitro n800v I think. Mainly due to cost but I genuinely believe it was a life saver!

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I would swap, does your insurance not cover you equipment aswell as bike or are you not going through insurance.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by krhall

It is a nitro n800v I think. Mainly due to cost but I genuinely believe it was a life saver!

If it was whacked hard enough to save your life, bin it. It has done it's job and probably would not handle having to do that all over again.

It is not worth the risk.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

If it was whacked hard enough to save your life, bin it. It has done it's job and probably would not handle having to do that all over again.

It is not worth the risk.

My POV too. I don't subscribe to the "oh, I dropped my helmet 10cm, I must replace it!", but I think if you have actually banged your head on the deck in an accident with it, it's due for replacement.

Yeah I think that as usual the org is spot on. I have t5o say I am really impressed with the helmet itself even though it was only £69.99, which most people think is too cheap.

I had an old, very low budget helmet (£30 from bike show some years back) and it saved my life when I slid down the A44 on my shoulder/head, ripped the visor clean off and a crack next to the visor clip. Obviously replaced it straight away but decided to see how much stick it would take before splitting. Took it out the back and proceeded to smash it as hard as I could on the patio and it took a good dozen or so attempts before it broke. I know when its on your head it has less flex and so less give but it took some real force to get it to break (the force I was giving it would propbably have broke the neck straight away). Even still, reassured that helmets do their job I would still get a new helmet if I had an off that involved a helmet/ground impact, or even a decent drop onto the floor. Would rather pay out now than be brain damaged (although some would argue that in my case that damage had already been done).

Just fall on the other side

Originally Posted by carlos

I had an old, very low budget helmet (£30 from bike show some years back) and it saved my life when I slid down the A44 on my shoulder/head, ripped the visor clean off and a crack next to the visor clip. Obviously replaced it straight away but decided to see how much stick it would take before splitting. Took it out the back and proceeded to smash it as hard as I could on the patio and it took a good dozen or so attempts before it broke. I know when its on your head it has less flex and so less give but it took some real force to get it to break (the force I was giving it would propbably have broke the neck straight away). Even still, reassured that helmets do their job I would still get a new helmet if I had an off that involved a helmet/ground impact, or even a decent drop onto the floor. Would rather pay out now than be brain damaged (although some would argue that in my case that damage had already been done).

The danger with crashed lids isn't that they split and break, more that the part of the lining that received the impact becomes a focus point for any force in the next crash, so rather than dissipating force across the whole of the lid all the energy is concentrated on that one spot working a bit like a chisel to the skull, or so I've been told at least!