Awful & Awesome Motorcycle Gear - How to Spot the Difference

Hi, this is great, this sucks and this is how keywords, after trying hundreds of products, I discovered some keywords and separate the peaches from the fruit. Don't get me wrong, most of what you will read is marketing nonsense, but a select few terms can be found or clearly not found and that illuminates a quality choice, take your helmet like onions and parfaits and Shrek, it has layers of padding when the party touches your face when there is foam, finally, a shell for padding, the key word is removable. Wow, such wisdom, everyone and their grandmother knows about removable pads.

Cheap Sonnen liners smell bad and come loose and there's nothing you can do about it so we chose a helmet with removable pads, the more the better as the more articulated the fit the better your helmet will hold up. Attached to your head, we can also replace them every few years to help keep the helmet tight. Everyone knows this, but exceptional buyers will know that an exceptional helmet has removable layers inside removable pads. Customizable peel-off foam is quite expensive to manufacture, but the manufacturers that pony up now offer supreme fit for the foam layer. Its keyword is dual density.

Now almost all helmets will use EPS foam expanded polystyrene, but a good helmet will use two layers, a lighter one for smaller impacts and a heavier one for big ones. Minor C impact Knox is best handled with the low density EPS as it is softer on the head, the higher density material will give you more hit to the head but you also need it to eliminate large impacts without killing yourself same, all that to say if a manufacturer boasts about using EPS foam and they better say dual or even triple density if we expect something special most of the time, however manufacturers will try to impress with their shell, it's all molded Maloney by aerospace grade injection, just for the keywords. thermoplastic is one to avoid, it is heavy and breaks into large pieces, not the most effective impact dispersion tactic if a manufacturer refuses to say anything about what their helmet is made of, chances are it is thermoplastic and It sucks, polycarbonate has its second keyword and polycarbides are just a thinner species of thermoplastic, a little lighter, a little more expensive, but actually the least contender for a manufacturer.

Fiberglass is keyword number three and tends to creak in all directions instead of just cracking. That H disperses the impact over a wider area. A little more EPS. boom gets to share that load, fiberglass is therefore safer than polycarbon again, lighter. Your fourth keyword has an identity crisis. Aaron made the carbon fiber from Kevlar, ma, let's break it down. Aramid is the main group of many synthetic fibers. His favorite child is Kevlar, a bulletproof. trademarks type of aramid, even if you don't plan on getting shot in the head, Kevlar is great because it has enormous tensile strength, compressive strength, it blows your mind, so aramid needs to be backed with something else in the helmet shells, which are usually carbon. fiber knowing that's all just mental masturbation, you really just need to remember when you see aramid, Kevlar or carbon fiber, you get more strength than fiberglass with 20% less weight, but here's the kicker, a fancy casing usually It does not mean a safer helmet.

I mean, sure carbon fiberglass is definitely more effective than thermoplastic and polycarbonate, but most of the time manufacturers will use these expensive shells to get away with less EPS foam underneath and that creates a more helmet. thinner, a lighter helmet, maybe a helmet with more four vents and four visors, but at the end of the day it's not safer to say it this way, if you give up your firstborn for a top of the line helmet, you will notice the

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while riding , maybe not when you crash, so how can we do it? know that a helmet is sno ECE safe and don't just lie about these keywords to get the answer Snell takes it to the race tracks require the highest impact absorption of caps Snell helmets are the largest, thickest and According to them, the safest ECE disagrees and believes that large helmets impart too much torque to the neck, so they favor a thinner, lighter cap with slightly less impact attenuation.

ECE is the most widely used certification worldwide, so if you plan to circumnavigate the world, there you go. T is a dinosaur, he just threw an asteroid out of a video in hopes of driving the outdated standard towards extinction. It is something latently dangerous like wet primer or asbestos. If you see that a helmet is approved by the Department of Defense, you should know that it will make you legal in the United States, but otherwise, there is nothing to impress with two final keywords and then we finish with the helmet shell size and most manufacturers will save money by using one shell for the extra small and small, then another shell for the medium and large, and again one for all sizes XL and up.

So if you have an extra large head but also share a shell with triple XL the helmets will look a lot more bobblehead than you need, the best helmets use a custom made shell size for each head size that way everyone they get the thinnest outline possible, the last key word is gram, if a cube is legitimately light the company will brag about it in grams or pounds and ounces if they are annoying, all other helmets will call themselves light but without a number attached and that means exact date for reference, a really light half helmet weighs around 800 grams a MX 1200 full face cube with a suitably light weight 1400 grams ATV Elements 1500 and its lightest modulars come in just sixteen hundred grams and that's it as we

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a peach color with removable pads removable layers dual density EPS not a thermoplastic shell maybe polycarbonate if the price is right fiberglass carbon fiber Kevlar or aramid otherwise we want Snell or ECE we don't want a shell size that matches our head size and we want a light weight even in grams or I won't buy it.

I wish companies would stop trying to trick us with these things, but they won't. Here's a particularly scary example. CEE stickers are easily the most deceptive and misleading tool, and manufacturers, marketing departments love them because they make the buyer think that clothing items are safe, but actually win a CEO a job in personal protective equipment it's hard and expensive and companies care more about profit margins than you and me so what they do is just ignore the test and then put up big Cee labels that only refer to the armor or maybe just the x reflective or maybe even just the dye used on this little piece of fabric, any amount of Steel Able you'll see on

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actually has nothing to do with crash safety, sneaky bastards, we can make a hole to look. through the wall of with our keywords in 1359 v & p re n 1709 - these are the actual relevance rankings for

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If you want something that's been tested, you should check this out, but wait in the sexy world of C. codes, it doesn't stop there in 1621: one refers to bulletproof vests in 1621: two covers, spine protectors and in 1621: three simple protectors, those are the keywords that really mean something, any other Cu label on your jacket or pants as a red herring if you are interested in all the sublevels press pause too late, we have turned our heads towards more interesting horizons the 49 glossary of clothing was leather a deliberately vague term meaning it was probably goat or cow, both are fine kangaroo leather Elroy look at our breed of those kangaroo skins, flexible things, deerskin, a bit strange for riding in Bambi, but you maintains lightweight, full-grain, unsanded leather that retains maximum strength and breathability.

Top grain is more even, less patina, you can still slide for days, split green, oh so no I don't want to keep your skin ballistic nylon, a basket weave doesn't mean Dubrow core, the name of a fabric brand doesn't mean either dinar, the only thing that makes Cordura or ballistic nylon mean denier is a measurement of the mass of the fabric, the higher the safer, ideally. More than 1000 polyurethane, a cheap base coat used to hold nylon threads in place, loves to melt into the skin during an accident. Good nylon should be less than 20% PE, super bulletproof fabric, grandma, it's usually a kevlar type textile cover with a bunch of little bulletproof ceramic loaves. gore-tex stay dry hypertech's stay dry waterproof defines dry PVC definitely not dry polyvinyl chloride is a cheap way to spray something and make it waterproof for about an hour ventilated, that's misleading.

The fronts of the jackets have panels and pockets, so it's easy for manufacturers to sew countless events here trying to trick us into thinking how ventilated this jacket should be, but unless the air has somewhere to go, like more expensive venting in the armpits to decide or an exhaust vent in the back, it won't keep you as cool and we. I'm done, I'm glad I made this video because it occurs to me. I spend a lot of time giving fish to people. This is a good helmet. This is a quality jacket, blah blah blah, but if we could teach people how to catch their own fish, oh. there should be a saying about that