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Originally Posted by Lucazade 749s
Tell me one thing about your other tests. What do they do, do they test helmet to destruction? Or is it that they give it to people for review and they do not destroy it. They test it for fit, comfort and what it is made from.
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A Quote taken from a Helmet test site:
Arai's helmets exceed greatly all of the testing standards throughout the world.
In Europe ECE22.05 is the standard to which all helmets sold must meet.
But Arai sets high demands for Its own helmets - much higher than ECE22.05.
For example, the ECE norm accepts one single impact test on five areas of the helmet
Arai tests each helmet with no less than four successive impacts on nine places. The
reason for this is simple; practice shows that a helmet, during an accident, often gets
hit on the same place several times when it reaches the road surface.
So isn't it obvious to test the helmet more than once?
An example of this in action is MotoGP rider Shinya Nakano's high speed crash at
Mugello in the 2004 season His helmet suffered repeated impacts from 200mph to
.standstill, and he walked away from that accident. His Arai took a heavy battering,
but protected his head securely during the fastest crash in GP history.
Also, the ECE test does not require a penetration test, which Arai insists upon. This is
an important factor for road use, where all sorts of potential hazards can exist during
an accident. Arai has been protecting racers' and riders' heads for well over two decades, in the process turning the art of making crash helmets into a science.
There is no testing standard in the world to compare with Arai's own and this fact,
added to the sheer quality of materials and attention to even the smallest detail found
in every Arai helmet, is what makes each so special.
Nuff said