SHARP helmet ratings

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Durbs

Bike press is just the same as normal press - they need to fill pages and if there aint the news around to do it......

...MCN makes some up!

[mister c]

Originally Posted by Durbs

All Chinese whispers and witch hunts. I certainly wouldn't buy a lid that scored less than 4.

I wear Takeuchi helmets that score quite low in the tests. They are cheap, comfortable, & I also did my own impact test in January. I can catagorically state that it withstood a 50 - 60mph impact into a wooden fence & a couple of trees. I will continue to wear them as it saved my life.

Originally Posted by Durbs

All these stories about totally flawed testing methodologies and an entire department somehow missing an error in a calc - load of b@lls i reckon. Bike press is just the same as normal press - they need to fill pages and if there aint the news around to do it......

MCN are famous for making things up, but the fact remains that SHARP admitted to misinterpreting the findings and other organisations (not manufacturers) have similar results which differ completely to SHARPs.

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

but the fact remains that SHARP admitted to misinterpreting the findings.

Do you have a linky?

Originally Posted by Durbs

All Chinese whispers and witch hunts. I certainly wouldn't buy a lid that scored less than 4.

You have a lot to learn.

Originally Posted by mister c

I wear Takeuchi helmets that score quite low in the tests. They are cheap, comfortable, & I also did my own impact test in January. I can catagorically state that it withstood a 50 - 60mph impact into a wooden fence & a couple of trees. I will continue to wear them as it saved my life.

If you can't find a Takachi to replace any future helmets, but a Nitro or a G-Mac or a Syko or any one of a number of identical lids - they are all the same thing with different branding and graphics.

I was a Nitro rep for a few years, I know these things.

Btw, I won't put anything but an Arai on my head, but I do happen to think Nitros and their clones are the best value for money lids on the market.

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

MCN are famous for making things up, but the fact remains that SHARP admitted to misinterpreting the findings and other organisations (not manufacturers) have similar results which differ completely to SHARPs.

+1 - I've seen and read the official reports that concluded that SHARP got their precentage sums wrong and decreed that testing on the side of a helmet was a priority. SHARP have admitted as such and are revising all future tests.

In short, ignore anything SHARP have done to date as it's flawed.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Btw, I won't put anything but an Arai on my head.

Fer fecks sake DONT DROP IT ON ITS SIDE, the thing'd go off like a bomb!!!! Get the kids away from it now!

i wouldnt put a arai on my head if you paid me personally not from the sharp tests just the damn things are the worst fit for me possible it'll be a shark next as i think their pretty much the be all and end all in my head size just got to either wear this nitro out first or drop it.

Well tbh we know that sharp have got off to a bad start and to eb fair they were destined to. Any new findings are allways treaded with suspision and righly so. Ok these guys have made a cockup but at least its a start. I mean this testing could and hopefully will help in getting people into better quality lids that may save lives. This can only be a good thing and for this reason alone i think we should be encouraging the sharp tests.

Personaly i would go for a named lid like aria or shoei these guys have been doing this for a few years so lets hope they know what they are doing. Although who really knows