Being a helmet nazi...

**Robbo** · 17th March 2008, 21:41

Originally Posted by FJRider

I started riding in 1975, helmets WERE required by law. ANY helmet. My first bike was a Kawasaki 100 farm bike (5 speed, high/low ratio) road legal and cost $2,00 to fill the tank. My first helmet was an ex MOT pudding basin with the leather bottom. $5,00 from a second hand shop. TIMES CHANGE

LOL. The old Pudding Bowl Helmets. Yep! i remember them well, even owned one myself for a short while before they started making modern looking helmets, although they were all open face back then. Full face came later. Reminds me of George Roper from "George and Mildred.
We sure have come a long way with motorcycle safety gear since those days and the modern bikes are sure damn fast compared to their predecessors.
It is all good though.

**FJRider** · 17th March 2008, 22:32

Originally Posted by Robbo

LOL. The old Pudding Bowl Helmets. Yep! i remember them well, even owned one myself for a short while before they started making modern looking helmets, although they were all open face back then. Full face came later. Reminds me of George Roper from "George and Mildred.
We sure have come a long way with motorcycle safety gear since those days and the modern bikes are sure damn fast compared to their predecessors.
It is all good though.

A F' KING LONG WAY !!!!!!

**heyjoe** · 18th March 2008, 00:32

All helmets imported by people have to meet the same standards as the helmets sold in shops in NZ to be allowed. Otherwise it is not legal to sell them I suspect.

**FROSTY:Me** · 18th March 2008, 00:59

Originally Posted by heyjoe

All helmets imported by people have to meet the same standards as the helmets sold in shops in NZ to be allowed. Otherwise it is not legal to sell them I suspect.

Why?? if a "private" sale you can sell any crap.
Im not saying stuff on tard me is crap --just that the potential is there

**heyjoe** · 18th March 2008, 01:17

Originally Posted by FROSTY

Why?? if a "private" sale you can sell any crap.
Im not saying stuff on tard me is crap --just that the potential is there

I agree that people selling privately can sell any crap and don't want laws and rules interfering. My info reference (which I had read some time ago and have just looked up again) is here: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/road-user-sa...g-helmets.html

I interpret that as someone who may be selling or importing to sell helmets in NZ. That is why I stated what I did in my earlier comment.

I also agree that there is potential for online auction sites to have sellers sell crappy goods.

**90s** · 18th March 2008, 08:00

Originally Posted by heyjoe

I agree that people selling privately can sell any crap and don't want laws and rules interfering ... I also agree that there is potential for online auction sites to have sellers sell crappy goods.

Sure, and the obvious reading of 'crappy' re: private imports is whether they are legit imports or not officially declared, and therefore not officially imported and meeting none of the official NZ specs.
On auction sites you can get anything from electronics to DVDs to whatever that has been bought into the country and does not meet local standards and is not technically legal.
If its electronics from HK that cost 1/2 the price and you need an adaptor for, sure if it doesn't go wrong then you can save a lot of money.
But if I hit my head on the road then I would like to be sure it is a pukka item I've bought. When I did hit me head on the road following my one and only car-vs-bike smackdown, my AGV shell split in half down the back, but did the job as I had only mild concussion. If I had not had had a decent lid on I might not be here now.

**Bonez** · 18th March 2008, 14:59

Originally Posted by Robbo

LOL. The old Pudding Bowl Helmets. Yep! i remember them well, even owned one myself for a short while before they started making modern looking helmets, although they were all open face back then. Full face came later. Reminds me of George Roper from "George and Mildred.
We sure have come a long way with motorcycle safety gear since those days and the modern bikes are sure damn fast compared to their predecessors.
It is all good though.

You can still buy pudding bowl helmets new.

http://www.trophycycleapparel.com/in...ex&cPath=71_93

**heyjoe** · 18th March 2008, 20:47

Originally Posted by 90s

Sure, and the obvious reading of 'crappy' re: private imports is whether they are legit imports or not officially declared, and therefore not officially imported and meeting none of the official NZ specs.
On auction sites you can get anything from electronics to DVDs to whatever that has been bought into the country and does not meet local standards and is not technically legal.
If its electronics from HK that cost 1/2 the price and you need an adaptor for, sure if it doesn't go wrong then you can save a lot of money.
But if I hit my head on the road then I would like to be sure it is a pukka item I've bought. When I did hit me head on the road following my one and only car-vs-bike smackdown, my AGV shell split in half down the back, but did the job as I had only mild concussion. If I had not had had a decent lid on I might not be here now.

Yep I agree with ya on whether items are actually officially declared or not. I am sure the online auction sites have heaps of goods as you describe. I do not doubt it. And I too would expect a helmet to do what it was expected to do.

**FJRider** · 25th March 2008, 22:23

Originally Posted by heyjoe

All helmets imported by people have to meet the same standards as the helmets sold in shops in NZ to be allowed. Otherwise it is not legal to sell them I suspect.

But it is to WEAR them