You can get cheap helmets that meet the rules. This particular place has
them for $60.00, but remember, you are protecting your brain, and you get
what you pay for. The Snell rating should ensure that you are getting
something of decent quality and not just a DOT approved plastic pail.
http://www.extremesupply.com/bell/bellmcyc/mot6sc.htm
Here is some information about the different Snell ratings.
http://www.smf.org/faqs.html
SA standard requires flammability test while the M standard does not;
SA standard allows narrower visual field than M standard (Some SA helmets
may not be street legal);
SA standard has rollbar impact test while M standard does not.
The K standards are very similar to the SA standards, however the K
standards omit the requirements for flame retardency.
James
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mini-baja@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-mini-baja@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of susantoa@pdx.edu
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:02 PM
To: BMmonteSS@aol.com
Cc: mini-baja@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Legal helmets?
You won't find many motocross helmet with any of the required rating unless
you
go to the expensive ones. We got lucky and found a couple on the clearance
rack for around $89. Usually the helmets with those rating (MotoX style)
are
in the $300 range (at least the ones that I can find near us).
The internet stores are a different matter. Here's a company that sells
every
brand of moto-x. I found this company within my first Google query. I've
listed the direct link to only some of the helmets they sell that has either
the Snell M2000 or the British Standard 6658. Some are as cheap as $129:
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-offroad-hjc-table-ac-x2.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-offroad-thor-svr-replica-table.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-offroad-thor-svr-table.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-offroad-thor-sxt-table.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-kbc-table-tkx.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-kbc-table-motox.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-kbc-table-superx.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-offroad-hjc-table-clx-4.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-nolan-table-n51.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-offroad-suomy-spectre-table.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-shoei-table-v-moto.htm
http://www.motorhelmets.com/htm1/helmets-shoei-table-vfx-r.htm
Quoting BMmonteSS@aol.com:
> Thanks for the replies to the helmet question. I haven't seen any
motocross
> style helmets with the SA-2000 rating so thats why it was confusing to me.
> I'm going to start a thread on the message board to keep this conversation
> going.
>
> Thanks,
> Bronson McNemar
> Fairmont State Univirsity
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