Take it back to Bell...they sold you bad goods and should make it right.
--Pat K
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>From: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
>To: "'Kevin McCormick'" <ktm@unify.com>, "'ba-autox@autox.team.net'"
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: HELMET QUESTION
>Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2001, 12:48 PM
>
>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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