Skull Crush helmets-any experience?
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11-07-2011, 03:13 PM
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11-07-2011, 08:08 PM
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That's why even at the Wednesday night drags for 13.99 & faster cars must have Snell approved helmets. DOT doesn't cut it in any racing series.
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11-08-2011, 10:37 AM
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As stated, the M2010 standard made revisions.
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11-08-2011, 12:36 PM
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In other words, the people responsible for that SNELL standard are idiots and borderline criminally negligent. Might as well put a "Sesame Street" sticker on it - it carries the same weight.
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11-08-2011, 09:29 PM
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Hey guys,
I'm trying to find a good helmet that won't emphasize my already way huge melon any more than it already is. Although my head only measures 25" around about the only helmets I can squeeze on are HJC XXX's, and then it looks like a bowling ball sitting on top of another bowling ball. You get the picture.
Anyway the Skull Crush helmets are not actually DOT but the reps do everything but come out and say they're really better than DOT. I was thinking about a 3/4 which they say comes with 3 different size pad sets so it fits anybody.
Anybody know anything about Skull Crush?
I'm trying to find a good helmet that won't emphasize my already way huge melon any more than it already is. Although my head only measures 25" around about the only helmets I can squeeze on are HJC XXX's, and then it looks like a bowling ball sitting on top of another bowling ball. You get the picture.
Anyway the Skull Crush helmets are not actually DOT but the reps do everything but come out and say they're really better than DOT. I was thinking about a 3/4 which they say comes with 3 different size pad sets so it fits anybody.
Anybody know anything about Skull Crush?
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Icon, Shoei, Arai, OGK, Simpson and Bell. These are names you can trust to keep your brains unscrambled.
... and seriously - who names a helmet "Skull Crush"? I mean, that's exactly what's gonna happen if you crack up wearing one, but they couldn't find a better marketing guy to help with the name?
#20
11-08-2011, 11:11 PM
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No, but I'm an engineer by profession, and the fact that SNELL 2005 was allowed out of the lab is indicative is a systemic failure.
In other words, the people responsible for that SNELL standard are idiots and borderline criminally negligent. Might as well put a "Sesame Street" sticker on it - it carries the same weight.
In other words, the people responsible for that SNELL standard are idiots and borderline criminally negligent. Might as well put a "Sesame Street" sticker on it - it carries the same weight.
And I find it interesting this "known" deficiency hasn't prompted a safety recall or lawsuit. And is there actual data the small sizes are too hard? Or just speculation it's "too hard" because the M2010 standard changed. And none of the helmet manufacturers, who know what their doing, didn't petition Snell for a revision?
In the meantime Snell has helped saved numerous lives for decades.