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Re: HELMET QUESTION

To: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: HELMET QUESTION
From: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:13:21 -0700
the sacrifices of the victorious are many.

-james, who has sacrificed a number of dollars, hours and even some skin


----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>

> Well, all rightee. I probably won't be able to take care of this 'til
after
> Nationals. Either way, it will be a daisyless Nationals for me. Maybe this
> is what it takes to win. :)
>
> Katie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop487@home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: James Creasy; Kelly, Katie; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: HELMET QUESTION
>
>
> I agree with James...he should make it right. Daisies or not. :)
> --Pat K
> ----------
> >From: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
> >To: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Re: HELMET QUESTION
> >Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2001, 1:41 PM
> >
>
> >thats ok, still take it back.  you didnt discover the problem until now.
> >its not like a return where you 'just didnt like the color' and they will
> >return it to stock.
> >
> >they probably (=should) happily take it because they want happy customers
> >and most likely would be unhappy that they sold the wrong thing.  (this
is
> >based on how much i know bob booth- seems like a good guy)
> >
> >-james
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
> >To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:18 PM
> >Subject: RE: HELMET QUESTION
> >
> >
> >> Only one problem: I have defaced it with a HUGE daisy decal. And it
fell
> >> apart on me in grid during the Divisional, and there was some small
> damage
> >> done, nothing that can't be replaced. Otherwise, I would.
> >>
> >> I STILL recommend Bell Motorsports. This is more my error than theirs,
in
> >my
> >> opinion.
> >>
> >> Katie
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: James Creasy [mailto:black94pgt@pacbell.net]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:13 PM
> >> To: Kelly, Katie; 'Kevin McCormick'; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> >> Subject: Re: HELMET QUESTION
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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