Helmets Minor crash / No marks on helmet / Replace helmet anyway?

Glad you weren't more seriously hurt. Gotta watch out for those Little Ol' Ladies!

John
 
If your helmet came in contact with anything replace it. I have a friend who used a helmet after a crash with no marks. When he had another one when his head hit the pavement the helmet split in half. Do not take the chance.
 
So if a guy drops a helmet on the garage floor ya gonna replace it??

Cmon y'all use a little logic. Sure if a helmet is cracked in a fall or sumptin else, I can see replacing it. BUT I fall off my ride and my helmet takes a scrape it can no longer perform?

I think it goes like this, if you have a crash that busts your helmet on impact, not gonna matter if its brand new outta the box, or fell off the table, you're history. Any force that powerful, is gonna be do bad things, like a broken neck.

Just me, but I don't believe my Arai has to be replaced if it falls on the garage floor (which is prolly more impact then most get offs, but I don't have the numbers on it)

Now I'm sure the helmet industry is gonna say yes, for two main reasons. Don't wanna get sued, and wanna sell helmets. :tc1:
 
Bama,
I disagree with you on this one. the helmet situation you describe is much different. Without a head in the helmet you are not compromising the integrity of the inner liner just the shell, so if there is a mark on the helmet from the empty fall to the floor take a diameter of approx a quarter from the center of that mark and consider that a compromised section of the helmet.

However as soon as the inner liner is compromised trash the helmet.

I guess its up to the individual to determine if the damage is cosmetic or structural
 
kellbe said:
If your helmet came in contact with anything replace it. I have a friend who used a helmet after a crash with no marks. When he had another one when his head hit the pavement the helmet split in half. Do not take the chance.
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What brand of helmet was he wearing? What type of impact and how fast was he going on the crash that split open the helmet? Did he survive?
 
I stopped by the shop on the way home from work. I spoke with the service manager and he said that one of his mechanics had totalled up $2800 in parts so far. He's going to go over it himself tomorrow and will hopefully have the grand total by the end of the day. I had the sales manager look up the current retail value of a '99 ST1100, and it's around $4100. Factoring in parts and labor, I'm not sure if it's going to be totaled or not.

I've ridden both ST1100's and St1300's. For the long haul, my ST1100 was quite a bit more comfortable than any of the ST1300's I've ridden. I'm really hoping to get my ST11 back as I've modified it a lot, to include an Audiovox cruise control, Scorpio alarm, Stebel horn, heated grips, taillight modulator, Travelcade Stealth seat, and a few others. I cringe at the thought of having to start over again, though I like the idea of having a bike with newer technology.

The bottom line is, I only want my ST11 back if it's right. My 1st new car ('82 Datsun 200SX) was hit 5 months after I got it. It was never right again. Though it was quite dependable, there was several things that cropped up over the years that resulted from the repairs.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see...
 
kellbe said:
If your helmet came in contact with anything replace it. I have a friend who used a helmet after a crash with no marks. When he had another one when his head hit the pavement the helmet split in half. Do not take the chance.
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You know a guy that had a crash (with a helmet with no outside signs of damage), that split a helmet and walked away?
 
Look at it this way. If you fell off of your bike without a helmet on while sitting in your garage, and you hit your head on the concrete, chances are you'd have a fairly severe head injury.

Same with your helmet. You may not see it but you do not need to have a head in the helmet to compress the styrofoam in the spot where the helmet hit the ground. The outer shell will bounce back into shape as it's designed to do. Then, when you may need that part of the helmet to protect your head, it will not protect it as well because part of the styrofoam has already been compressed.

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Now my wife sez I'm hard headed, but it doesn't come close to a Arai helmet. The human skull is way fragile, and can be damaged in the most innocent of falls etc.

When I was working, went on a call to a affluent neighborhood, where a young mother, in front of her house, riding/sitting on bicycle fell over, and struck her head on the curb, killing her. There was nothing we could do for her.

I'm not sayin a helmet is not damaged in a fall, all I'm sayin is the damage it sustains won't manifest itself in the next. My point of view (not scientific, just from walkin the planet 55 years) is if I'm wearin my Arai, that I dropped in the garage, and have a crash that causes the helmet to fail, not gonna matter, if it was a virgin or not. If the force was great enough to split that helmet, I'm prolly not gonna survive whatever I had on my head.

How many times ya reckon you could drop an Arai on the floor before you split it? 5? 10? 15? 20?

I buy high dollar Arai helmets, not because they protect any better then a JC Whitney, but for comfort and looks. If I have crash that splits a JC Whitney, well that same crash will prolly take me out in a Arai that doesn't split.

Kinda like this, you gotta helmet that is good for a 500 lb (just numbers I made up) force, when a 300 lb is all it takes to kill ya. But if it makes a guy feel better to replace a helmet, by all means have at it, he wouldn't be wrong.

Just my :tc1:
 
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