Is My Crash Helmet Now Ruined? | Helmet Inspection Company

Ever dropped or kicked your crash helmet and worried that if you had an accident could it be compromised?
I was contacted by The Helmet Inspection Company and invited to take a look at their new service which can internally survey the internal structure of your composite helmet using lasers to determine if there is any hidden damage!!

I was so intrigued I took my cameras and headed down to take a closer look!

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[helmetinspection]

Kudos Chopsy. Thanks for going to this extraordinary effort to visit our test facility and tell the story in such a clear way.

[jamest]

Having worked in Destructive and non-destructive testing for years I understand and was aware of this method. Great to see the information presented in a basic and understandable form for the layman 👍

[TheJmebe]

Great idea and the science is good. Only question is - when they see defects, how do they/we know when it is serious enough to say helmet isn't fit for purpose anymore?

[flibbertigibbet]

Great video but would still love to see at what point they would deem a helmet unsafe and at that point prove it off against a new helmet of the same make in say an impact test. I really don't see how a modern Carbon fibre Helmet that weighs next to nothing can be wrote off by a 1mtr tumble (Empty) when they are designed to protect your Mellon at speed when the forces would be insane. Most Manufacturers must take something like this into account as people would never buy another high end Helmet again if you're paying £400 a time for a light drop? # I would be very interested to hear a manufactures point of view on this topic.

[CrouchyOnBikes]

What a great service, thanks for sharing Chopsy! Also demonstrates how great we are as a country at developing smart solutions to real world problems. Just bookmarked the link for future reference. Cheers!

[digger]

Exellent post, I could have listened to the professor for the hour, fascinating stuff.
The big bike shops should be offering a service like this, if they don't they are fools.

[robda]

For anyone questing this it's simple. All materials expand and contract with heat everything from your front door to a bridge all he is looking for using lasers is uniform movement any irregular movement is a sign of either damage or a secondary material

[JEmmertz]

Bloody interesting! The fact that it can be done in a nondestructive way and on the real usable product makes it truly amazing.

[gavinwebster]

Fascinating and a real eye opener. It's a good idea when a decent helmet is now £4/5/600, you think twice about throwing it away.

[ironmanmichael]

Thanks for putting this fascinating video out Chopsy. Must be the most useful biking vid in years. £40 is just the right price point to get your precious lid checked out. I'm definitely going to make a note of the details for future use. 👍

[N-Kari]

I liked this and while it sounds all good ( and I know you gave your warning about snake oil/ Baffling with Bull-S~~t) Id really like to see you test some helmets from "new". Maybe a cheapo £40-60 one and a mid-range one and if you can find the backing for this a higher end one? Id love to see what the tests says before and after "dropping " them. I appreciate this is probably pie in the sky idea but this would have been a more thorough test (Although admittedly not exhaustive). Maybe a idea for collaboration with these guys again?

[andrewshore]

Hey chops thanks for highlighting this service it certainly provides peace of mind, my only concern is sending a lid via a courier they aren’t known for their gentleness - a bit like your travelling on a plane scenario. Never the less the actual testing is really worthwhile and useful, cheers Mr C 👍

[Shinysideup]

Timely video chops. I put my new Arai on the bike seat while I was open my garage door and it the floor. Only a small chip in the side . I just brought another one costly mistake. Proper interesting stuff.

[timr]

Absolutely fascinating Chops, thank you. I was expecting you to announce at the end that the testing was prohibitively expensive to those with anything other than top end helmets, but absolutely not, and if in doubt you'd have to be mad not to use this incredible service. I just hope they don't get deluged and have to put the price up!

[robertbasford]

Thanks Mr Chops, that has cleared up the muddy waters of dropping your lid.

[derekholme]

Excellent job and very informative, but, it now raises more questions, helmets are manufactured and distributed all over the world and all over our country being delivered to customers then returned to the shop and sold again, shipped again, vicious circle of handling and mis handling, although as your video showed that defect cannot be detected visually so what do we do as customers, buy the helmet that you would like to keep and wear then to satisfy your self that your helmet is safe to use have it tested, now faults are found caused either during manufacture or mishandling along the line to you, what happens then, return for inspection(probably only visual) no fault found and returned back to you, or send it back with the report from the tester, bit of a vicious circle? Apologies for my ramblings but it does beg the question, how do we buy a helmet that has not travelled many miles and handled by many people to end up on ones head and know that it is defect free, million dollar question? Cheers and ride safe.

[maschienraum]

Thank you very much for the test based on facts ( I am btw an auditor for composite material in the aircraft industry, it means I have a little inside of the material and that was very interesting) ...I am just considering to buy a new Shoei because I dropped my AGV last year...4 years old...decision is clear...a new one is ordered....thank you again and many greetings from Hamburg Germany

[Motorcycle_Mike]

Lasers, LambChops and learning, yes please! Thoroughly enjoyed this one chops, like something you’d see on the discovery channel👍🏻🆒🔝🙌🏻🎬🎥

[AGardenShed]

Need to have a look at these guys. Had an off in my shoei hornet but don’t think I hit my head. Only mark is on the wrong side of the helmet on the peak to the side I landed.

[spugone]

Great information, mind boggling for sure. For £40 it’s well worth checking if you have dropped your lid, especially with the cost of most of them these days. 🙄👍🏻👍🏻