Police crackdown on unsafe helmets

**admenk** · 8th December 2015, 10:30

Originally Posted by Big Dog

It seems a 3 iron takes 3 strokes to reduce it to unrecognizable.

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...so, you'll be fine in one as long as you stay away from the golf course

**Big Dog** · 8th December 2015, 11:58

To be fair, if you only strike one object and only with the top or back of your head you should be good... just don't do any sliding... and stay off the fairways.

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**Paul in NZ** · 8th December 2015, 14:42

Originally Posted by Big Dog

That was a fiberglass one. The polycarbonate ones last better but still little better than a cycle helmet.

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Dunno about that... I use one of these and Vicki has similar... https://www.torpedo7.co.nz/products/...-2-mips-helmet Trust me its a LOT better than some of those novelty helmets...

**Grubber** · 8th December 2015, 15:24

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

Awesome home business opportunity selling 'replacement' stickers... My financial future is assured...

On a more serious note...

I have seen many replica 'novelty' helmets with DOT approved stickers and even advertised as such.. Hmmm... I'll be a sack full of wet weasel buttocks these helmets have never been tested... Or at least tested beyond not falling to bits until the customers cheque has cleared...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...-994882927.htm

I actually questioned that one. Check the reply, very vague!

**Gremlin** · 8th December 2015, 19:47

Originally Posted by Grubber

I actually questioned that one. Check the reply, very vague!

That's likely the bullshit the cops want to stamp out. Guy brings in something that barely passes as a pudding bowl and sells as a helmet and shrugs that it may or may not be legal.

Shops on the other hand get hauled over the coals for anything close to that...

**Big Dog** · 8th December 2015, 23:15

Goes back again to dot standard is only valid on our roads if the helmet was manufactured and purchased in the us.

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**nzspokes** · 9th December 2015, 05:54

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

Awesome home business opportunity selling 'replacement' stickers... My financial future is assured...

On a more serious note...

I have seen many replica 'novelty' helmets with DOT approved stickers and even advertised as such.. Hmmm... I'll be a sack full of wet weasel buttocks these helmets have never been tested... Or at least tested beyond not falling to bits until the customers cheque has cleared...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...-994882927.htm

Thats a bicycle helmet. And the picture is of 2 different ones at that.

Commerce Commission would be interested in looking at that.

**Scuba_Steve** · 9th December 2015, 06:14

Originally Posted by Big Dog

Goes back again to dot standard is only valid on our roads if the helmet was manufactured and purchased in the us.

even then it shouldn't be, the DOT standard is guarantee of nothing more than the helmet has a sticker

**RDJ** · 9th December 2015, 07:53

Originally Posted by nzspokes

Thats a bicycle helmet. And the picture is of 2 different ones at that.

Commerce Commission would be interested in looking at that.

the straps on that thing would surely come off at anything over a walking pace?

**rastuscat** · 9th December 2015, 10:38

Just thought I'd stoke the fires of the discussion by including some facts.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regul...resel_25_a&p=1

**Tazz** · 9th December 2015, 10:45

Originally Posted by rastuscat

Just thought I'd stoke the fires of the discussion by including some facts.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regul...resel_25_a&p=1

Does this count as a roll cage?

**Big Dog** · 9th December 2015, 14:12

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

even then it shouldn't be, the DOT standard is guarantee of nothing more than the helmet has a sticker

I agree. Pretty sure it has to with not wanting to turn away tourist dollars.

When I started riding in the 90's DOT was the main standard. Very few helmets met the AUS/NZ Standard and only the very expensive meet Snell. My first helmet was a NZ standard FFM and some who thought they knew ridiculed me for not having a DOT helmet. By my second Snell was cheaper by my third or fourth euro was all the rage and DOT was only valid if purchased in the US.

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