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NWC: Check your helmet production date.

 

I've got the bike back on the road but my helmet isn't very comfortable. Turns out it's not just that I have less hair, the padding is turning back into petroleum. While pulling out scraps of foam I notice the production date: 2007! The impact foam deteriorates over time so ideally a helmet should be replaced about every five years. Sixteen years is a little bit past the sell by date. Of course, in the interim they've changed how the visors are attached, so my old ones are all useless. But the cost of a new helmet is still less than my health insurance company's deductible for treating a traumatic brain injury.?
 

I worked in a motorcycle shop for about 13 years. Put a sign up in the parts dept, "SPARE PARTS FOR YOUR HEAD ARE HARD TO GET".

Dennis

On Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 05:28:48 PM PDT, Tom Herling <thomasjherling@...> wrote:


I've got the bike back on the road but my helmet isn't very comfortable. Turns out it's not just that I have less hair, the padding is turning back into petroleum. While pulling out scraps of foam I notice the production date: 2007! The impact foam deteriorates over time so ideally a helmet should be replaced about every five years. Sixteen years is a little bit past the sell by date. Of course, in the interim they've changed how the visors are attached, so my old ones are all useless. But the cost of a new helmet is still less than my health insurance company's deductible for treating a traumatic brain injury.?

Bob Lombardi
 

Good point guy.?? Mine is pretty old too.

On Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 05:28:50 PM PDT, Tom Herling <thomasjherling@...> wrote:


I've got the bike back on the road but my helmet isn't very comfortable. Turns out it's not just that I have less hair, the padding is turning back into petroleum. While pulling out scraps of foam I notice the production date: 2007! The impact foam deteriorates over time so ideally a helmet should be replaced about every five years. Sixteen years is a little bit past the sell by date. Of course, in the interim they've changed how the visors are attached, so my old ones are all useless. But the cost of a new helmet is still less than my health insurance company's deductible for treating a traumatic brain injury.?

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