> not paranoid, just trying to protect Ms. Kelly's valuable head.
why do we wear snell-approved helmets in autocross but not on the street,
which clearly feels more dangerous!
-james "instinctively trys to pull on helmet before heading to the store"
creasy
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin McCormick <ktm@unify.com>
To: 'Kelly, Katie' <kkelly@spss.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: HELMET QUESTION
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:13 AM
> > To: 'ba-autox@autox.team.net'
> > Subject: HELMET QUESTION
> >
> >
> > A couple of months ago, in need before our Divisional, I bought a Bell
> > something-or-other-bottom-of-the-line full faced helmet from Bell
> > Motorsports in Oakland. They know me, and my father much better.
> >
> > Although on the back of the helmet it says Snell M 95, the
> > tech inspector
> > almost didn't pass the helmet because of the necessary Snell
> > sticker inside
> > the helmet, under the lining. There is a possibility that the
> > sticker is
> > there, but the helmet is such that you can't move the lining
> > to see what's
> > there. Because of this, I was warned that although he'd pass
> > this helmet for
> > the Divisionals, despite his suspictions that I fabricated
> > the sticker on
> > the back of the helmet, I'd probably run into problems with
> > this helmet at
> > Nationals, to which I boasted, "Well, I'm not going to
> > Nationals, so neener
> > neener neener."
>
> If I'd suspected you'd fabricated it, it wouldn't have gotten a sticker.
Or
> at least I'd ask you to measure the perch height (oops, wrong topic :-)
>
> So, The basic issue is that the tiny 'Snell' sticker on the back of this
> helmet could be re-created easily by anyone willing to - Not necessarly
the
> individual purchaser, but an 'evil' knock-off manufacturer for example.
No,
> not paranoid, just trying to protect Ms. Kelly's valuable head.
>
> The actually Snell rating sticker (sewn to the chin-strap, under the
lining,
> etc.) is the 'official' method of showing the rating of a helmet. Look at
> the 2000 ones - holographic and all, and much harder to duplicate.
>
> >
> > So, I'm flying to Nationals this Friday, and I've found a
> > back up helmet
> > just in case. On the back, it again says Snell M 95, and when
> > you lift up
> > the lining, there is indeed a Snell sticker. Are the odds are
> > that this
> > second helmet is legal?
>
> No odds required - it _is_ legal (unless damaged, etc.).
>
> >
> > I'd never run into this type of problem with a helmet before.
> > I told the
> > guys at Bell Motorsports that this was an autocross specific
> > helmet, and I
> > just assumed that they'd be selling me the right product.
> > Looks like not,
> > and now I've got a worthless helmet with a big ol' daisy on the back.
> > Bummer.
>
> Other might not be as stringent as I was. But if you had had an incident
at
> the divisional (with the helmet on, of course) and there was a question as
> to the legality of the helmet, then the club risks being at fault.
>
> >
> > Katie Kelly
>
> Kevin McCormick - 2001 SFR Divisional Chief of Tech
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