Ok, I'm pretty sure I have made up my mind but...
You have two helmet options.
One was a reasonably expensive Shoei. It's a top quality lid, even if a little older. But he has taken some hits. Not little hits, but it's not yet cracked. The last couple of bell ringers you took in it may have left that bell vibrating for a little longer than you may have expected. It's hit the ground 10-20 times. 5-10 of them being pretty solid wacks.
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Then you have a newer HJC. It's not an expensive lid, but not a bottom of the barrel one either. It's crashed only twice and neither one took a solid impact, just some scuffing.
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The game plan was originally to save the HJC exclusively for road racing and keep it nice so that it continues to be able to pass tech.
Moving forward with the Speedway season when you are almost guaranteed to crash. Do you keep running the pre-crashed lid taking comfort in the fact that it's a high quality helmet. Or do you swap over to the cleaner, newer HJC, if it may not be as high a quality and run that because it's been crashed less, even though you may end up just crashing that one and not being able to have a helmet to pass tech if you go road racing?
At some point a Motocross style helmet will be coming to take the place if the road helmets, but no time soon unless we get like mid summer tax returns or something.
What do you guy think.
Oh, and yes, I have the internet, I know how to use Google, I have read all about helmets and how they are built, what an impact does to the structure and foam, and all ...
I'm not asking for a lesson in helmets or copy pasted info from another site. I'm curious what you would actually do if this was you.
You have two helmet options.
One was a reasonably expensive Shoei. It's a top quality lid, even if a little older. But he has taken some hits. Not little hits, but it's not yet cracked. The last couple of bell ringers you took in it may have left that bell vibrating for a little longer than you may have expected. It's hit the ground 10-20 times. 5-10 of them being pretty solid wacks.
IMG_20210615_202356.jpg IMG_20210615_202345.jpg IMG_20210615_202406.jpg
Then you have a newer HJC. It's not an expensive lid, but not a bottom of the barrel one either. It's crashed only twice and neither one took a solid impact, just some scuffing.
IMG_20210615_202416.jpg IMG_20210615_202423.jpg
The game plan was originally to save the HJC exclusively for road racing and keep it nice so that it continues to be able to pass tech.
Moving forward with the Speedway season when you are almost guaranteed to crash. Do you keep running the pre-crashed lid taking comfort in the fact that it's a high quality helmet. Or do you swap over to the cleaner, newer HJC, if it may not be as high a quality and run that because it's been crashed less, even though you may end up just crashing that one and not being able to have a helmet to pass tech if you go road racing?
At some point a Motocross style helmet will be coming to take the place if the road helmets, but no time soon unless we get like mid summer tax returns or something.
What do you guy think.
Oh, and yes, I have the internet, I know how to use Google, I have read all about helmets and how they are built, what an impact does to the structure and foam, and all ...
I'm not asking for a lesson in helmets or copy pasted info from another site. I'm curious what you would actually do if this was you.
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