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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #25 on: 31 August 2015, 07:08:10 pm »
I have to say you are doing it all wrong, you need to get a camera and be on the bike whilst testing the helmet  :pokefun

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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #26 on: 31 August 2015, 07:14:33 pm »
So that just leaves the is16, a tough flexable cookie, no cracks on the outside of this one yet which is reassuring as I now have the later FG15  :)

the main difference ive noticed in these tests is the flexabilty in the outer hard shell of the is16, the newest lid at only 3 years old, the two older lids were easy to break from the side and front but this could be down to age.


Got to finish this test and the is16....but how......its over to you foccers...........................name the test   ;)



Get Exupnut to wear it and crash into a wall or lend it to Christo, I'm sure he'll find a convoluted way to test it

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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #27 on: 01 September 2015, 01:07:07 pm »
As has already been said, drop that safe on it.... you never know it might open and we might find out the contents!
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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #28 on: 01 September 2015, 06:19:09 pm »
Grinder to replicate sliding down the road.
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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #29 on: 01 September 2015, 06:32:41 pm »
Yep.....think its got to be an abrasive test, a woodworker by trade so I have access to a good range of machinery, in particular a "open drum sander" 60 grit paper is the roughest I have but should be good enough, a timed test parhaps starting at 3 or 4 seconds .......will post piccies of said machine.....
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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #30 on: 01 September 2015, 08:48:02 pm »
Oh dear Red,,get a life  !!!




start poking nails in the tyres to test their strength
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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #31 on: 02 September 2015, 06:48:09 pm »
Doing this so you dont have to mr willy   ;)....better than being  a couch potato watching the box...............
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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #32 on: 03 September 2015, 09:24:15 am »
Shots fired, shots fired!!

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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #33 on: 04 September 2015, 07:47:04 am »
I think you just had a bored to death moment.

Go clean the windows ,lol
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Re: helmet strength ?
« Reply #34 on: 04 September 2015, 06:10:19 pm »
An ageing test pilot for home grown widgets that may fail at anytime.