Beemerkat

Sharp or Snell ratings? or do you care? would you give up your lid if it didnt rate high for an other that does or do you even care it just plain looks pimp! what are your opinions real world riders?


SHARP Motorcycle Helmet Ratings

More: See our full Motorcycle Helmet Review Index
Make Model SHARP Rating*
AGV Airtech 4
K Series 3
S4 5
Ti Tech (wBW Review) 4
Airoh Leox 3
Speed Fire 4
Arai Astro (wBW Quantun II Review) 3
Condor 2
GP5x 5
RX-7 3
Viper GT 3
Arashi Viper 4
Bell M1 5
Box BX4 2
BX2 4
Grex R1 4
RF2 4
HJC CL-ST 3
CS-12 2
FG-14 3
FG-15 4
FS-10 (wBW Review) 3
HQ-1 (AC-12 in U.S.A., AC-12 Carbon Review) 5
IS-16 2
KBC VR1X 3
VR2R 2
Lazer Fibre Pro 4
Fibre D1 4
LZ 6 5
Tornado 2
Nitro N330VX 2
N755VX 4
N810VX 4
N820VX 4
N1430VX 4
N1600VN 4
Nolan N62 4
N84 4
Premier Monza 4
Roof R010 Diversion (wBW Review) 4
RST Cobra Vent 4
Race Vent 3
Shark RSF 2i 4
RSI (wBW Review) 4
RSR2 (wBW Review) 5
S 500 Air 4
S 800 4
Shoei Raid II 4
XR-1000 (wBW Review) 3
X-Spirit (wBW Review) 4
Suomy Extreme 3
Gunwind 3
Spec 1R (wBW Review) 3
Takachi TK-30 2
Urban N20 (wBW Review) 3
Vemar TAI2K 3
VSREV (wBW Review) 2
X-Lite X601 4
X602 4
X701 4
X801 4

* Scale of 1-5, 5 is best.

Notes
The SHARP tests and assessments are valid for all types of helmet and further results will be released on a rolling basis through the remainder of 2008.

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter

Shrek X

I think about everyone here should have this one picked

"I bought it cause it looks cool posing at starbucks!"

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter

Beemerkat

LOL! yeh you dont need no stinkin ratings if you aint riding! they need a hot coffee rating

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter

02gixxer

Ok I had never heard of SHARP. I looked it up and it was just launched last year. Tests were only recently done and released. There pretty new to this, BUT there not in the USA this is only in the UK and for helmets bought and sold in the UK

*Somthing I pulled from the SHARP web site*
Why SHARP?
Motorcyclists are our most vulnerable groups of road users - making up just 1% of traffic in the UK but accounting for 18% of all deaths; the Government has already committed £1.5M in 2007 to educating motorcyclists and other road users about better behaviour that could reduce casualties.

There were 599 motorcyclist fatalities in 2006 and our research shows that approximately 80% of motorcyclists killed and 70% of those with serious injuries sustain head injuries. Scientific analysis has shown that we could save up to 50 motorcyclists' lives a year if all riders wore helmets scoring highly in our proposed rating.

Laboratory tests have shown that there are real differences in the safety performance of motorcycle helmets available in the market. While they all satisfy the minimum legal requirements, we believe that by providing objective advice concerning the level of protection a safety helmet provides will assist riders when making this very important purchase decision. We have seen that differences in safety performance do not necessarily follow price trends.

We'll test the most popular helmets first and aim to publish the first ratings as early as Spring 2008. It will take time to build a complete database, but in the future we hope that there would be a rating for every helmet available.

There is no comparative rating system available for motorcycle helmets anywhere in the world!

** **

Somthings I found about SNELL

Four of the MOST Critical Elements that SNELL Test for:

Impact Management - How well the helmet protects against collisions with large objects.
Helmet Positional Stability - Whether the helmet will be in place, on the head, when it's needed.
Retention System Strength - Whether the chin straps are sufficiently strong to hold the helmet throughout a head impact.
Extent of Protection - The area of the head protected by the helmet.

In order to continuously monitor the quality of helmets being sold to the public, Snell purchases and tests samples of currently certified helmets from the marketplace. These helmets are tested only in Snell labs by Snell technicians. Should a currently certified helmet fail, the helmet manufacturer must take corrective action to Snell's satisfaction.

Here is SNELLS proposal for there new testing.

http://www.smf.org/standards/m/2010/m2010_final.htm

Here are some other forums talking about these reqirements...

http://www.pnwriders.com/general-dis...y-catches.html

http://www.motorcycleaddicts.org/sta...ification.html

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/arc.../t-592397.html

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=221563

Heres what WIKI says

SNELL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell_Memorial_Foundation



So, I would say that after reading alot of this. It sounds like we need to change our SNELL testing around a little even after the 2010 standard. I wouldnt say go in the route of SHARP because it doesnt sound like they really do anything better than SNELL. But testing should re-create double impacts better.

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter

Beemerkat

So, I would say that after reading alot of this. It sounds like we need to change our SNELL testing around a little even after the 2010 standard. I wouldnt say go in the route of SHARP because it doesnt sound like they really do anything better than SNELL. But testing should re-create double impacts better.[/QUOTE]

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter

Beemerkat

i am a snell guy but hot chicks on bikes work too!

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter

Shrek X

all ya have to do is watch all the "look at my cool new lid with the pretty graphics" or "look at my cool new leathers with the pretty graphics" threads. granted, graphics and colors add 1hp per swirl ... but still.

(if you were really thinking performance you wouldn't paint or color a thing.... plastic doesn't rust and paint adds weight)


just sayin

Im going riding now.

__________________
Follow PNW Riders on Facebook and Twitter