Test your helmet here!!

Arai Condor, 2 stars. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

4 stars for my laser fiber pro light, that'l do me considering i mainly brought it coz it was comfy over me hearing AMPlifier dooberry

5 stars , Agv Stealth. Not bad considering it cost me under <£100 (brand new obvously.)

Originally Posted by Miss Alpinestarhero

Arai Condor, 2 stars. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I've got one of these and I don't car what the test says its better than a plastic £50 helemt.

Shoei XR1000 saved my friends life too

Complete and utter rubbish this test, and so DANGEROUS as people actually refer to it and get a rubbish £50 lid instead of a decent arai, shoei or equivalent

this really really annoys me and will no doubt cost people when they crash in rubbish helemts because of these stupid tests.


If a £100 helemt has 5 stars why are NO racers using them, answer me that.

I've got a SHARK RSR2, which got given 5 stars, which is fair enough cause it is a brilliant lid, and should be for 300odd quids. BUT as said numerous times the test is flawed, perhaps (as GavinD suggests) even dangerous if it influences riders to go for cheaper 'higher rated' lids. I also know someone who saved their head with a Shoei (not bomber Harris) so go figure

Originally Posted by GavinD

If a £100 helemt has 5 stars why are NO racers using them, answer me that.

That is a facetious argument. Part of the cost of your arai or shoei goes on paying racers to wear them - you think they are doing it for free?

There is no independent evidence that a 50 quid ECE22.05 lid is any more or less safe than a £500 lid. The SHARP test tries to show relative safety, but is being dismissed - often by expensive manufacturers who are performing badly.

Personally, I would like to see tests which all the manufacturers get behind so that SHARP v2 isn't dismissed in the same way. Cheaper is not necessarily either more or less safe than expensive.

Personally I don't pay a blind bit of attention to the SHARP safety rating..

I mean would you rather have a £350 Arai or a £100 Shark, assuming the Arai has been race proven, yet only received, say, 2 stars from SHARP, or the Shark, which not even schoolboy racers use, yet received 5 stars?

Originally Posted by Jamiebridges123

or the Shark, which not even schoolboy racers use, yet received 5 stars?

Leon Camier?
Troy Corser?
De Puniet?

The Sharks used in racing are not the £100 ones.

Originally Posted by Jamiebridges123

The Sharks used in racing are not the £100 ones.

And what makes you think the Arai/Shoei ones are the £350 ones?