katie,
take it back to bell motorsports. they should take it back, as they should
have given you what you asked for in the first place.
-james
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
To: 'Kevin McCormick' <ktm@unify.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: RE: HELMET QUESTION
> Kevin McCormick writes...
>
> >Other might not be as stringent as I was. But if you had had an
> >incident at the divisional (with the helmet on, of course) and there >was
a
> question as to the legality of the helmet, then the club risks >being at
> fault.
>
> True, true.
>
> Anyway, there's no way the Daisy Helmet, blast it, is Snell approved. I
> can't find any indication, besides the decal on the back, that it is.
There
> is a cloth cert label inside, but nowhere does it say Snell approved, only
> on the decal in the back, which doesn't quite cut it, apparently. My
> question is, why would they put that on a helmet that ISN'T improved? This
> is a well known manufacture and reseller.
>
> I can't tell you how disappointed I am, mostly in myself for not even
> thinking to look at the helmet more closely at Bell Motorsports. I just
went
> in and said I needed an autocross helmet and that's what they sold me.
> Didn't even occur to me to measure, I mean it didn't even occur to me to
> look for the label.
>
> Anyway, thanks, Kevin, for not waiting 'til Nationals to protest my
helmet.
> :) You've just saved me a lot of grief.
>
> Katie Kelly
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