Re: Flip-up helmets

[Erik Miner <Axeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Good points.. this needs some thought...

Erik




>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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