Snell Helmet .....

[318willrun]

Current rating needed (in 2 weeks) is 2020. That takes you to 2030. In about 2 weeks it's 2026. So you buy a helmet with a 10-year rating that's good for 4 years. 60% of the "life" of the rating is used up before buying, but they aren't offering 60% off. My 2015 is now expired. I gotta buy a new one. There is a discount, but not 60%. Just feel like something isn't right.

 

[MOPARMAGA]

Current rating needed (in 2 weeks) is 2020. That takes you to 2030. In about 2 weeks it's 2026. So you buy a helmet with a 10-year rating that's good for 4 years. 60% of the "life" of the rating is used up before buying, but they aren't offering 60% off. My 2015 is now expired. I gotta buy a new one. There is a discount, but not 60%. Just feel like something isn't right.

It's a scam for sure.

 

[318willrun]

Ok, I need to quit whining. You can buy snell 2025, but you'll just pay full price and wait... I was hoping for a big discount because the rating was about past. 10% off per year for a 10 year helmet seemed fair. Summit doesn't have the 2025's in stock yet.... go figure.

 

[318willrun]

Ok, I need to quit whining. You can buy snell 2025, but you'll just pay full price and wait... I was hoping for a big discount because the rating was about past. 10% off per year for a 10 year helmet seemed fair. Summit doesn't have the 2025's in stock yet.... go figure.

I bought one.... my cry for the day is over... LOL

 

[66Valiant528]

NHRA....bell housing, seat belts, cage, clutch, fire suit, helmet....BS

 

[318willrun]

NHRA....bell housing, seat belts, cage, clutch, fire suit, helmet....BS

And safety is one thing, but how fast the dates expire seems a money maker..

 

[TT5.9mag]

I bought a snell2025 this morning on summit.

 

[33IMP]

And safety is one thing, but how fast the dates expire seems a money maker..

That's only cause that's EXACTLY what it IS!!!

 

[33IMP]

Knowing that perfectly safe and useful safety equipment will expire DECADES before it becomes unsafe, causes me to buy the absolute cheapest stuff I can find. Cheap belts, cheap open face helmet (which I prefer, anyway) .
I'm sure this is exactly what nhra (f#@k the nhra!) intends, right?
I have a perfectly safe, top of the line Shoei that has never been on the ground, or contacted a roll bar, that I would stake my life on . It would be fine, if I still rode bikes (a BUNCH safer than naked heads that AZ allows! ). It's been useless in my car for well over two decades.
But I learned my lesson. Last snell I bought was the CHEAPEST I could find, not the "best". They are all snell approved, right?

Sorry. Rant over. (Except, one last time, F#@K nhra!)

 

[33IMP]

NHRA....bell housing, seat belts, cage, clutch, fire suit, helmet....BS

I've never had a tech inspector ever look at ANY safety equipment other than the dates on helmet and belts, the two easiest to check money makers. Never had one even get on the ground to look for a driveshaft loop.
I don't know what they do at national events or division races.

 

[ch1ll]

NHRA....bell housing, seat belts, cage, clutch, fire suit, helmet....BS

I disagree.

 

[Ottmundr]

Knowing that perfectly safe and useful safety equipment will expire DECADES before it becomes unsafe, causes me to buy the absolute cheapest stuff I can find. Cheap belts, cheap open face helmet (which I prefer, anyway) .
I'm sure this is exactly what nhra (f#@k the nhra!) intends, right?
I have a perfectly safe, top of the line Shoei that has never been on the ground, or contacted a roll bar, that I would stake my life on . It would be fine, if I still rode bikes (a BUNCH safer than naked heads that AZ allows! ). It's been useless in my car for well over two decades.
But I learned my lesson. Last snell I bought was the CHEAPEST I could find, not the "best". They are all snell approved, right?

Sorry. Rant over. (Except, one last time, F#@K nhra!)

I love the Arai Quantum series for my lumpy head.
Just have to lose another 20 pounds and my wife says she'll buy me a motorcycle.
Having the flu is going a long way towards making that happen.

QUANTUM-X | DRONE Red | Arai

www.araiamericas.com

 

[MOPARMAGA]

What pisses me off is when companies sell **** that's way past sfi expiration date.
I have a tci blow shield for my 727, I got it 2 years ago it expired in 2015.
Pissed because it costs $80.00 to ship and recert

 

[fishmens67]

It's a scam for sure.

The biggest ever, I still have a helmet from the 80's that's better than what's out there now. other than a few nicks from falls on the bikes it's pretty good.
I've had few helmets over the years, but that one's my favorite and holds some memories
The rest of my gear from that era no longer fit's me, otherwise I would use it, they don't make riding boots like they used to.

 

[318willrun]

The biggest ever, I still have a helmet from the 80's that's better than what's out there now. other than a few nicks from falls on the bikes it's pretty good.
I've had few helmets over the years, but that one's my favorite and holds some memories
The rest of my gear from that era no longer fit's me, otherwise I would use it, they don't make riding boots like they used to.

You can go 11.50 with 55 year old factory seat belts. 11.49 will cost ya new belts every 2 years....

 

[318willrun]

But... they say every rule is written in blood .... somebody else's blood.

 

[33IMP]

You can go 11.50 with 55 year old factory seat belts. 11.49 will cost ya new belts every 2 years....

... IF you don't have a bar in it.
Those two and a half year old belts that are all of a sudden unsafe (that I have about ten sets of) ?
I used a shoulder belt from one of my sets to pull a 440 and 727out of my 62 instead of a sling.

 

[318willrun]

... IF you don't have a bar in it.
Those two and a half year old belts thatare all of a sudden unsafe (that I have about ten sets of) ?
I used a shoulder belt from one of my sets to pull a 440 and 727out of my 62 instead of a sling.

Our track requires a bar at 11.49 (IHRA)

 

[33IMP]

I disagree.

Okay. Does that mean that you believe a cage becomes unsafe the day after the cert expires? Or the trans blanket? Or seat belts? Or a helmet? How about the harmonic balancers? Or that big solid steel scattershield that hasn't had a clutch explode in it?
Those are CLEARLY nhra regulations to help the safety companies (you know, the ones that sponsor nhra and buy advertising) sell UNNECESSARY parts.
One of the members on the B side had to buy a scattershield for his Hemi car. It cost $1800. Five years from now, if anybody actually checks (HIGHLY unlikely, however)he'll have to buy another, at probably $2000
So, what was it that made his first one UNSAFE? Did that 1/4" steel turn into tinfoil?
Answer: nhra's bullshit regulations.
I have NO PROBLEM with requiring safety stuff! I had everything required, and more, on my cars. I Can give you the list of sfi parts I reported on the tech sheet when they teched my car. It's the bullshit expiration dates I quarrel with.

 

[33IMP]

Our track requires a bar at 11.49 (IHRA)

... but if you have a bar, no matter how fast or slow, belts are required. If you are slow, do they have to be current? I don't know the answer to that one.

 

[33IMP]

What pisses me off is when companies sell **** that's way past sfi expiration date.
I have a tci blow shield for my 727, I got it 2 years ago it expired in 2015.
Pissed because it costs $80.00 to ship and recert

You should have sent that sucker back to who you bought it from, at THEIR cost, immediately.
Last set of belts I bought (from summit) i let the order taker know if the full two years weren't available when they arrived, they were going back
The belts arrived, having been made three months in the future.

 

[318willrun]

You should have sent that sucker back to who you bought it from, at THEIR cost, immediately.
Last set of belts I bought (from summit) i let the order taker know if the full two years weren't available when they arrived, they were going back
The belts arrived, having been made three months in the future.

Like 2020 Snell helmets ... 4 year helmet instead of 10.

 

[ValiantRacing]

The helmet is good for 10 years but seat belts are no good in 2 years. Really

 

[MOPARMAGA]

Money, more money

 

[33IMP]

One of my happy moments :
One set of belts I had had a "hanging chad" in the year punch out.
I glued it back in place, and punched my own hole, three years newer. Tech never caught it, and I got five years out of that set.
Was I worried they were "unsafe"? Nope. And I guess tech couldn't look at em and say they were, either.