Helmet and bike gear rankings mixed

The award-winning Australian MotoCAP web site now consists of helmet security and luxury rankings in addition to its typical rankings for jacket, pants and gloves.

The Australian NSW Consumer Rating and Assessment of Safety Helmets (CRASH) rankings beforehand printed on crash.org.au, will now be situated at MotoCAP.com.au so riders can get all their security gear information in a single place.

The MotoCAP security intitiative launched in September 2018 and is the primary of its kind on this planet.

It is predicated on proof from crash harm analysis and the check protocols of the present business commonplace. It is an initiative of state vehicle golf equipment and transport departments.

CRASH is a consortium of Transport for NSW, Transport Accident Commission and Insurance Australia Group.

It exams 30 helmets annually in opposition to a variety of standards, together with safety and luxury earlier than awarding a star score out of 5 for every standards.

While motoCAP is exclusive, CRASH is just like the British SHARP helmet security scheme which has examined and rated a whole bunch of helmets, virtually all of which can be found on the market in Australia.

You could ask why helmets are nonetheless being crash examined in Australia regardless of European-standard helmets being obtainable right here for a number of years.

Centre for Road Safety energetic government director Craig Moran says that whereas all helmets offered right here meet both Australian Standards or international commonplace UNECE 22.05, CRASH rankings “give riders more information so they can chose the best helmet for their situation”.

By “more information” they imply rankings out of 5 for security and luxury. The requirements simply say they handed the exams, however don’t present rankings.

For instance, a helmet solely has to attain the bottom one-star CRASH score to move Australian and Euro helmet certification.

AS/NZ 1698 and UNECE 22.05 certification make no point out in any respect of consolation which is necessary for decreasing rider fatigue which may distract your consideration.

Despite not having as many helmets examined as SHARP, having the CRASH security rankings included on the one web site is handy for riders.

And in case your helmet shouldn’t be listed, then you possibly can nonetheless go to the SHARP web site.

This 12 months’s CRASH outcomes reveal solely 9 out of the 30 helmets examined achieved 4 out of 5 stars for crash safety security. The new rankings might be discovered right here.

Click right here for extra details about CRASH testing procedures.

I’ve beforehand researched helmet rankings from CRASH and SHARP to evaluate whether or not value correlates with security.

We discovered some shocking outcomes! Click right here for the complete story.