geezer2005
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Was wondering the above, if it has never been dropped, or done its job in an off?
If I remember right 5 years was a guideline?
If I remember right 5 years was a guideline?
The foam inside will breakdown with age. So date of manufacture will have a bearing. Obviously type of usage and storage will also have big influence. But the shell of the helmet will and should last well. So with a modern 'premium' helmet, you can feasibly there the entire interior at some point. I've pretty much dinner this with my Neotec 1, which now has a fully new interior and looks almost new.Shoei for example Warrant helmets for 5 years from purchase / 7 years from manufacture. Presumably to allow for limited shelf time pre purchase,
The foam inside will breakdown with age. So date of manufacture will have a bearing. Obviously type of usage and storage will also have big influence. But the shell of the helmet will and should last well. So with a modern 'premium' helmet, you can feasibly there the entire interior at some point. I've pretty much dinner this with my Neotec 1, which now has a fully new interior and looks almost new.
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I'm talking about the lining 'foam'. The polystyrene will probably last forever... But the lining does offer some of the 'fit' and probably as a consequence offers a closer fitting, which is of course preferable, assuming it's not too old of courseUrban myth, probably spread by the manufacturers.... plenty of scientific (proper) articles demonstrating that the foam/EPS doesn’t degrade or lose its crash properties with age...
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I'm talking about the lining 'foam'. The polystyrene will probably last forever... But the lining does offer some of the 'fit' and probably as a consequence offers a closer fitting, which is of course preferable, assuming it's not too old of course
The 'foam' lining definitely definitely definitely degrades. I have helmets kicking around to prove it - from both Shoei and Ara
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