MCN tests cheap helmets

MCN has tested a random selection of the cheapest ECE-certified helmets through the tougher Snell test - and videoed what happens to the budget crash helmets

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25 Responses to “MCN tests cheap helmets”

1. 123thizz916 says:

   July 22, 2007 at 8:50 am

   This is not a bias opinion, or a personal opinion.
   Arai helmelts are, based on pure facts alone, the best helmets money cant buy. The new RX7 Corsair is hands down the most absolutely amazing helmet ever created. Each shell is hand made, and put through more tests than any other helmet.

   If your brain doesnt work, neither does the rest of you. Stop spending loads of money on gloves, boots, jackets, and new bikes, and drop a few extra dollars on an Arai, it’ll save your life.
2. 4estGimp says:

   August 19, 2007 at 4:39 am

   I had a wreck back in 1985 while wearing an Aria helmet. It cost a TON for a 16 year old kid but I wanted to be safe. It took a hit directly to the chin guard while slamming into the side of a pickup at 60mph, an asphalt hit was to the top or back and a lot of scattered small scrapes/dings. I had NO head injury, not even a concussion. The impact force absolutely smashed the bike and broke both of my femurs, right tibia and fibula and 2 vertebra…etc. The Aria survived and saved me.
3. KingRizlaSize says:

   September 19, 2007 at 9:12 pm

   Well I learnt bugger all from that. Thanks MSN!
4. account98 says:

   October 1, 2007 at 8:29 pm

   wow lucky you bought a good helmet
5. Joe90ridesahonda says:

   December 21, 2007 at 10:05 pm

   as the old saying goes,got a cheap head get a cheap crash hat!
6. JTAY800 says:

   April 21, 2008 at 8:42 am

   very lucky mate, i can relate that to how expensive my viper gt was last year with me still being at college
7. Resolveo4 says:

   November 6, 2008 at 3:09 pm

   wow, good thing i have a hammy down arai helmet, its in good condition too
8. Oronare says:

   December 30, 2008 at 5:51 pm

   More expensive doesn’t mean more safe. The new SHARK ratings show some Arai and Shoei helmets getting a 3 Star rating, where are some cheap marushin helmets get 5.
9. Drinkyoghurt says:

   January 1, 2009 at 11:55 pm

   You mean SHARP ratings not SHARK ratings
10. Oronare says:

    January 2, 2009 at 12:00 am

    That’s it. Sorry.

    It is still amazing how some cheap helmets out perform the high end helmets though in some cases.
11. OmNomNomFap says:

    January 23, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    But cheap helmets feel like aids on your face, whereas more expensive ones feel pro as fuck and wont rock your head off at high speeds as they’re not shaped like a gold fish bowl.
12. cwjolly69 says:

    March 13, 2009 at 8:34 am

    omg did any helmets pass
13. lilvfr400boy says:

    April 4, 2009 at 8:49 am

    haha my mate rides with the white arashi, deadly lucky i ride kbc vr1
14. mince2000 says:

    April 6, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    I tell u how cheep helmets pass the test.
    Company’s who’s making them they know in which part testing centre going to hit it. so they put some carbon fibre( tiny piece). so they hit straight to carbon fibre( its under paint work so u can’t see). Dont know if that’s true but i was told my someone who seems like he knows what he’s talking:) I hope:)
15. boysinblack says:

    April 16, 2009 at 4:48 am

    lol AIDS on your face…
16. mcmark22 says:

    April 16, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Sorry, but I don’t consider this to be a very valid test. Helmets are designed to withstand only ONE hit. Previous articles I read had data that showed a second hit at the same spot would have a 500% increase in the force that makes it through to your head. Note here they have multiple hits to the same spot. Look up the June 2005 issue of Motorcyclist magazine. They tested helmets from $80 to over $400, and they found some of the “cheap” one’s did work much better.
17. davetube2006 says:

    April 19, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    let’s see an ‘expensive’ one pass then….
18. buckhuck40 says:

    April 29, 2009 at 3:35 am

    pointles?!?!
19. CosmoxYRik says:

    May 18, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    A helmet has to be able to take two hits, and most standards double impact them. The idea is that it replicates one hit off the car bonnet, then one into the pavement. It’s no good if it’s rooted after the first one.
20. davidbrucemusicvideo says:

    May 29, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    awful vid
21. fitzmorris says:

    May 30, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    well in my opinion at low speed impact there is little difference between a cheap helmet and an expensive one and at high speed impact chances are you’ll die anyway so the only things i can think of that benifit you from buying an expensive helmet are: fashion, comfort, lightness and better visors.

    and just to add i had an accident with a cheap helmet on i went from 50mph braked hard then hit the back of a friend the helmet didn’t even touch the ground!
22. limwad says:

    June 22, 2009 at 12:43 am

    you sound like a fool
23. fitzmorris says:

    June 22, 2009 at 7:25 am

    why exactly?
24. DumbDuck44 says:

    July 5, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    Everyone knows that you drop a helmet even once, and its trash and can be thrown away. Here we have two hard impacts on the same spot. Let me see an “expensive” helmet fair better for an actual comparison. And the other reality is that many of these impacts seem so hard, that good or expensive helmet, its likely the person would have died regardless as the brain still has to decelerate and will bounce really hard up against the skull and a harder shell does even worse in this respect.
25. mxkiter24 says:

    July 13, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    bull crap maybe a cheap helmet but hey
    if u want to put a price on your life you are when you save money
    so you choose be alive ad missing an extra 200 dollars or dead now i no why u call urself dumbduck