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Originally Posted by sim1
Is there a basic description of what the stars actually mean in laymans terms?(cue smart alec to say 1 star is bad but 5 stars are good - except for their later albums)
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Why do you need that. What they want to encourage is for people to buy highest rating helmet they can afford. Having £120 to spend you can get a 2* lid and if you lucky a 4* lid. With out the test how would you know?
It is a helmet they can not tell you 1* protects good till 30MPH. At the end at 30MPH you can hit an oncoming traffic.
If you read about that testing you will realise that stars are based on different possible damage. All lids are tested under the same possible conditions and then depending at what level they give up is what they get.