Track day lid

[gsd2000]

Wheres the best place to buy a lid mainly for track days? With shakey's drag day coming up and the performance vauxhall show, i thought i'd invest in one instead of trying to borrow one. I may also do some more trackdays later in the year aswell. I don't want to spend mega money as its something that will only get used probably 4-5 times a year, and i was thinking open face.

thanks

[SimonV8ster]

You know what they say -'If you've got a 10 bob head buy a 10 bob hat' !!

Or something very similar........but I guess you get my point

[gsd2000]

can you hire track days helmets at pod and shakeys?

[SimonV8ster]

Don't know about hiring helmets there but when I did Brands it was 10 quid I think. Don't need to many of those and you've got a decent enough helmet I reckon.

Wasn't being rude earlier just meant must as well buy a decent if you can.

I bought one which cost me a hundred quid I think, maybe I should have spent a bit more as I had an open top car made of plastic

[crisisjez]

Go to a motorcycle shop that sells trials bikes, you can buy some really light open face lids for less than a a ton. Good is less than 1000g

[gsd2000]

no problems, i knew it was a joke I was thinking of spending upto £150 openface, but wanted to know where i could have a look and try them on to get the size. Would a bike place be a good place to go?

[MadMaxHSV]

Be careful with buying bike lids as all race events and even some track days now insist on a helmet with the correct Snell safety standard. Which bike lids don't have.
I recently had to fork out not an insignificant amount of money on an Arai car helmet to replace my bike lid in order to attend a few test days and a couple of sprint events.

Depends what you are using it for, but be careful you don't waste your money.

[007 VXR]

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[stigmundfreud]

crisisjez said:

Go to a motorcycle shop that sells trials bikes, you can buy some really light open face lids for less than a a ton. Good is less than 1000g

so long as it is acu gold approved, or is it just requires ACU stamp these days?

[stigmundfreud]

MadMaxHSV said:

Be careful with buying bike lids as all race events and even some track days now insist on a helmet with the correct Snell safety standard. Which bike lids don't have.
I recently had to fork out not an insignificant amount of money on an Arai car helmet to replace my bike lid in order to attend a few test days and a couple of sprint events.

Depends what you are using it for, but be careful you don't waste your money.

sorry but is this really correct? For years it was a case of requiring ACU Gold approval to enable use on track. Snell wasnt recognised in the UK at the time and I doubt that snells is the requirement now.

[MyM8V8]

We don't have any particular standards on here, so one of these might do?

[stigmundfreud]

never knew mel wore driving glasses

[Bonnie and Clyde]

And i've never seen you without glasses
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keati

[MadMaxHSV]

stigmundfreud said:

MadMaxHSV said:

Be careful with buying bike lids as all race events and even some track days now insist on a helmet with the correct Snell safety standard. Which bike lids don't have.
I recently had to fork out not an insignificant amount of money on an Arai car helmet to replace my bike lid in order to attend a few test days and a couple of sprint events.

Depends what you are using it for, but be careful you don't waste your money.

sorry but is this really correct? For years it was a case of requiring ACU Gold approval to enable use on track. Snell wasnt recognised in the UK at the time and I doubt that snells is the requirement now.

It has changed in the last year or so. It is now predominently the case that you need a helmet that is MSA recognised, so either BS 6658 type A or Snell SA2000. Bike helmets don't have these type approvals. Pretty sure Silverstone for example insist on MSA approved lids to be used on the track.

[wolfracer]

Bonnie and Clyde said:

And i've never seen you without glasses
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keati

mel stick [img]before and [/img] after your linky.....
makes it a lot funnier!
like this

[MadMaxHSV]

Some advice on lids from pistonheads, including standards etc.

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=52&i=1330...

[Magic919]

MadMaxHSV said:

It has changed in the last year or so. It is now predominently the case that you need a helmet that is MSA recognised, so either BS 6658 type A or Snell SA2000. Bike helmets don't have these type approvals.

My Arai RX7RR has BS6658 type A.

I think the PH article looks like a good source of information.

[Bonnie and Clyde]

I just went into my local Mototrbike place to look at helmets
The man said non of the gold approved(or something) ones are fire resistant and that they would probably need to be for drag racing. Any ideas.
BTW i found a lovely silver, pink and grey one with pretty stuff on but it was £250
ETA Look what i just found on flea bay I love that
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Caberg-V2-Flowe

[Bonnie and Clyde]

I was gonna start a new thread "show us yer helmets" but i was a tad worried
Col suggested i see if i can get away with this
What do you think? Will the Pod allow it

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