alistairolsen
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:41 AM |
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Lidl helmets
starting from this thursday Lidl are selling a range of full and open face crash helmets.
They appear to have TUV certification and are all sub £40
Im temped on one I have to admit, anyone got any advice?
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:44 AM |
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I'd only use them in the car, not for on a bike
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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donut
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:48 AM |
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Spend a little - Die allot!! 
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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r1_pete
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:48 AM |
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As whippy says, probably ok in a car, the only thing which goes on my cranium is an Arai, expensive but one area where locost is low on the agenda.
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alistairolsen
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:49 AM |
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yeah, me too. But to wear in an aeroscreened locost with a rollover bar they should be good enough for trackdays and stuff?
I know with safety stuff you tend to spend out, but I cant help thinking a £250 OMP job is a little over the top....
[Edited on 19/3/08 by alistairolsen]
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mookaloid
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:55 AM |
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Wear one in the car if you just want to keep your ears warm and fend off the odd flying stone when driving normally on the road.
You will need to be prepared for it not lasting very long - poor quailty lining and not being very comfy.
if you are doing track days or want it to be comfy and last a good long time then pay more and get something decent. You won't regret it.
"the bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten"
Cheers
Mark
[Edited on 19/3/08 by mookaloid]
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:55 AM |
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Who said "If you've got a 10$ head get a 10$ helmet"? It was a famous race driver and he's right.
Found it. It was Keke Rosberg!
While searching for that I found this collection of Murray funnies:
Unless I'm very much mistaken -- I AM very much mistaken!"
"Look up there! That's the sky!"
"Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position."
"And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car."
"This is an interesting circuit, because it has inclines. And not just up, but down as well."
"And there's the man in the green flag!"
"That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year."
"And he's lost both right front tires."
"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin. Unless this is the action, which it is."
"And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself."
"Mansell can see him in his earphone."
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."
"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place."
"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth."
"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?"
"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem."
"I know it's an old cliche, but you can cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump."
"Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place."
"The lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact, it's just under 7 seconds."
"Tambay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now."
"This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been."
"And the first five places are filled by five different cars."
"As you can see, visually, with your eyes."
"And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill."
"Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher."
"Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte."
"Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th."
"Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve."
"Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen."
"Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth."
"Schumacher has made his final stop three times."
"Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record."
"And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures."
"Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him."
"And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over."
"It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way."
"Let's stop the startwatch."
"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."
"And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race."
"I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one."
"Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest."
"I was there when I said it."
"Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th."
"The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander."
"Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
"The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very
slick."
"You might not think that's cricket, and it's not. It's motor racing."
[Edited on 19/3/08 by MikeCapon]
www.shock-factory.co.uk
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BenB
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 11:56 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
Wear one in the car if you just want to keep your ears warm and fend off the odd flying stone when driving normally on the road.
You will need to be prepared for it not lasting very long - poor quailty lining and not being very comfy.
if you are doing track days or want it to be comfy and last a good long time then pay more and get something decent. You won't regret it.
"the bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten"
Cheers
Mark
[Edited on 19/3/08 by mookaloid]
Ooooh I like 
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iank
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 01:11 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by alistairolsen
yeah, me too. But to wear in an aeroscreened locost with a rollover bar they should be good enough for trackdays and stuff?
I know with safety stuff you tend to spend out, but I cant help thinking a £250 OMP job is a little over the top....
[Edited on 19/3/08 by alistairolsen]
Without a decent rollbar it doesn't matter how much the helmet costs it the extra 10ms you'll live isn't worth the money.
If you want to buy an expensive helmet for a locost pick a car helmet. The design is different both aerodynamically (doesn't lift at high speed
- your head is at a different angle on a bike) and for the very different modes of crash a bike and car experience.
If you just want a helmet for a visor to deflect the occasional bee or stone then pick a comfortable one (whether expensive of cheap it really
doesn't matter).
[Edited on 19/3/08 by iank]
--
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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worX
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| posted on 19/3/08 at 01:15 PM |
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aaahh you can't beat a good Murrayism...
Steve
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