Re: ABS or fibreglass helmets?

Beav wrote:

If you happen to hit a pointy thing with your crash lid, you'll be glad of a polycarbonate one apparently[1]. These days, due to better materials, some manufacturers are getting 5 year[2] lives out of them too.

I'll have to do some research on that coz I've never been overly impressed with polycarb for anything. It doesn't like paint, it ages under UV light (so I'm told), so time to ge my investigating feet on.

I guess the manufacturers have been busy in recent years. Someone I used to know that worked for a bike shop in the clothing department was adamant about the 3 year life. All I wanted to do was investigate this, that's when I found out about the leaps in materials / chemical engineering with polycarbonate.
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