Shark Helmets

French helmet manufacturer Shark is moving forward with a new range of graphics – and a couple of shell tweaks to its top of the range RSR2 – for 2009. Shark unveiled its bounty at its headquarters in Marseilles and, as the covers came off successive lids, it became clear that there were many more 'hits' than misses, graphically speaking.

The new RSR2 range is stunning (there are no lemons in the line-up, although the pic does the Elite design an injustice, it truly gleams), while, further down the range, there were striking designs for the RSR and S800 lids. True there were a couple of designs that would make an aesthete wince, but, on the surface, 2009 looks very good for Shark.

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And, beneath the surface, things were looking even better. All Shark lids performed very well across the board in the controversial SHARP test and Shark was justifiable proud of its lids results. Not that anyone in Shark's Marseilles design or research and development base was entirely happy with the SHARP protocol – or Snell or EC2205 for that matter. But, as was pointed out, the test is more a test of a companies' philosophy, not just its lids. Do you design a lid to pass a more or less arbitrary series of test parameters, or do you design the most stylish and safest lid you can?