Helmet Recommendations

That has to be the stupidest saying ever.

Price alone does not determine the safety of a helmet. There are plenty of reasonably priced, high quality, safe helmets available.

Test shown a $99 helmet was just as good as a $500. What we need are the test results from the manufactures but will never get them. It's a liability issue and for some I bet will show consumers wasting money. Flip side the comfront from some higher price helmets are worth it. I have a bell moto 8 and hate it. Noisy, lets bugs in and just not all around comfortable like other less expensive helmets. My son has a $179 Fly helmet and I feel it is equal or better than the Bell in fit, finish and comfort. It all falls down to fit and rating for me!

Of all the stupid sayings I happen to pick the stupidest. Wow! I hope there is a trophy for that.

The statement was intended to stimulate thought on the value of helmets rather than the cost. Thanks to your help I think we have done that.

I think he asked for recommendations that don't break the bank... I also am an Airoh owner and it's the nicest helmet I've ever put on my noggin. Can't see myself ever buying anything else but... They're a bit pricey!

Yeah, I thought that when I posted. You can get them reasonably cheaply from the UK when they are on sale.
I also thought I'd let others know about one of the best helmets available!

Has anyone brought the Husqvarna helmet or know anything about them.

king kenny said it: 10$ head? 10$ helmet. 'member that one from the 80's or whatever? he's far from dumb. and he was right!

always been a bell wearer...for decades....
odered a Suomy Mr. Jump (werid name) monday though...gota be the best, or one of the top 3 best, bang for the buck brain buckets out there and i cant wait to get it.



for SxS's/slow stuff/plonking or as a spare? the poly one's are ok if it has a good compression lining. and anything's better than nothing...but i absolutely will not use a plastic lid if im doing a real dirt bike ride. for about two hundred reasons.

for me?

gota be a 'glass (which means CF, kevlar, fiberglass et. al.) lid that FITS.

a plastic helmet will never, ever do what a woven fiber one will on impact.
the plastic ones trasmit (rebound) energy (think superball), they dont absorb it- they cant. they also dont like heat (blorb) or cold (shatter). think of tupperware....
end of story for me there.


you absolutely positively 100% w/o question really really do get what you pay for when it comes to helmets and if someone says different, well, it's their head not yours. let them wear it. spend the absoulte most you can on the best name brand yuo can find that fits like a ilteral glove. there's 500 other places yuo can save money when it comes to dirt bike crap. your head aint one of them. neither is your kids. tip- if you biff and dent the EPS liner? it's junk. get another one. next time yuo hit that spot it wont compress, but your brain will.

king kenny said it best and it still holds true today....10$ head?

You are 100% incorrect about material used in the shell. Plastic will on average absorb impact better than fiber and have a long shelf life. Test also show that she'll material doesn't insure the best reduction in forces transferred to your head. All helmets do meet the standards and outside of some independent test like Dirt Rider did a year ago, we will never see that data. As I said earlier buy a helmet on fit and comfort and lastly on looks. Let the material and price fall where it does.

pvduke, that's the Suomy I also bought, gotta say it fits me better than the Airoh I tried, when you put it on it feels broken in already and so light.

I think the best recommendation is to ignore most of the recommendations in this thread. Some people haven't a clue what they're talking about. but sure like to talk about it

You know what they say about free advice...

That aside, a helmet thread is probably as useful as an oil thread.

AIROH

Don't wear a helmet. I don't care. Won't bother me a bit.

Hmmm, no clothes, no helmet, do you wear boots?

really? ok. i'll pass this on to the race teams at work.

all sacrsm aside, i think you and i are respectfully gona have to agree to 100% disagree on this one.

To recap what I have read so far:

Plastic = Questionable
Fiberglass = Very Good
Kevlar = Great

I went with fiberglass. Only marginally less strong than Kevlar. Kevlar does have a higher tensile strength, but because of that, manufacturers tend to use less of it to build a product equivalent in strength to a 'glass helmet. The only real tradeoff appears to be weight.

When I was a kid in the 70's we used Bell. Then I tried Arai and Shoei. The last 3 helmets have been
Shoei Brand. I like the way they fit, and its a name I trust

Man you guys could argue the ears off an elephant.