Flip-up helmets

["Anderson, Neil G (CPR)" <andersng2@xxxxxx>]

I changed from a standard full face helmet to a flip-up (BMW Series 4) when
I got the ST in 1999.  The main reason I wanted a flip-up was not the ease
of taking photos, eating, talking to people or whatever with the helmet on,
but because flip-ups were strongly recommended to me by a paramedic who had
considerable experience of dealing with motorcycle accidents.

It's a lot easier and less risky to give someone in a flip-up artifical
respiration or to put a tube down their throat, than to remove a standard
full-face helmet from someone and possibly turn their damaged neck into
permanent paralysis.

The point about chin bar strength is a good one, though.  If I read the
Snell test rightly, it checks the downward (closing) strength of the chin
bar, but not the upward (opening) strength.  The same test in an upward
direction might burst open the chin bar and leave the face exposed to
injury.

Neil


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