When you are motocross racing or do some outdoor sports, the most important thing is safety. A high quality helmets will provide sense of security to you. Everyone can enjoy the safety performance and warmth that a helmet provides. But in fact, when wearing your helmet, remember that: the helmets are valuable but not invincible, and it can provide safety performance is limited. Compared with the helmets provide safety, most importantly, it is the safety consciousness from yourself. The safety consciousness can reduce your risk of accidents to a greater extent. So how to choose helmets? Here we go.
The helmets Components
Most of helmet are composed of shell and inner liner. But each helmets are different from each helmets, just like the cloth, the T-shirt are different from the jacket, because their’s usage scenarios are different. According to the usage scenarios, each different helmet has specific features such as ear coverage, moisture-wicking liners and temperature-sensitive materials.
1. Shell
The shell, or the out-lays of the helmets, it mostly use the ABS material. The ABS material can protect ours head avoid the knock and abrasions, it also can reduce the huge impact force during the fall.
2. Inner Liner
The inner liner almost use the EPS foam. The high dency foam has characterisic of excellent breathability, warmth and impact resistance.
The helmet construction
1. In-mold helmets
The in-mold helmets is made by attaching the shell and shock-absorbing foam in a single molding process. Compared with the injection-molded helmets, it is more smooth and strong integrity.
2. Injection-molded helmets
The injection-molded helmets use an EPS foam bonded to a separate shell, usually made of the ABS material. Compared with the in-mold helmets, it can provide the better impact resistance for us.
Find your Fit
1. The Shape
Everyone’s head is different, and that’s why the helmets has different shape for each shape of head （round/oval）, intermediate oval (the most common), and long oval. Remember your head shape is very important, if you buy a helmet, but this shape of helmet are not for you, that is very embarrassing thing. So please check your head shape before you buy the helmets.
2. The Size
When measuring your head, use a cloth tape. Start it just above your eyebrows and circle it around the thickest point in the rear of your head. If the helmet is loose, it will move around when you wearing. The correctly size helmet are little tight, when you shake your hear, the helmets shouldn’t move.
Check the safety Rating
Make sure the helmet which your want to buy,it has the certification (like DOT or ECE) on the side back. That’s mean this helmets pass the national recognized safety certification.
Beware of Unsafe Helmets
There are so many helmets in the market, different type, style, color, etc. Different price bring the different quality, there are also fake DOT labels being sold to put on these unsafe helmets. So, before you pay, please check the helmets.These fake helmets can not protect you, when you get into danger.
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