[Shotimes] Re: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA

[Ron Porter]

Did some poking around on Snell's website, and yes, they can't be shipped
until October 1st. Here' the link, followed by the text:

http://www.smf.org/ (under the latest Heads Up Quarterly Newsletter)

M2005 & SA/K2005 Standards
 

M2005 and SA/K2005 Standards have been finalized and certification testing
to these Standards have begun. Helmet models that meet all the requirements
of M2005 and SA/K2005 will be given certification certificates for M2000,
SA2000 and K-98. Certification to the M2005 and SA/K2005 Standards for those
helmets will be granted just before October 1, 2005 when the new Standards
become effective. Certification stickers for the new Standards will be
available on July 1, 2005. However, helmets with the new certification
stickers cannot be shipped until October 1, 2005. Please contact the Snell
lab for 2005 certification testing schedules.

The final draft of the 2005 Snell M and SA/K Standards are available in
digital format and may be downloaded from the Snell web site (www.smf.org).
Printed booklets of the Standards will be available after the Summer of
2004.


Ron Porter


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On Behalf Of Ron Nottingham
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:57 AM
To: TechSHO@topica.com; Shotimes
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


The Snell 2005 rating helmets won't be sold until sometime around the last 
quarter of 2005. With this info in mind, the Snell 2000 helmets are only 
available and when the 2005's are available, the 2000's will have 4 years 
knocked off their "life expectancy" for SCCA competition. Something else to 
think about.

Ron Nottingham - Dalton, GA
89 325i
90 SHO

"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"

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Subject: Re: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


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Thanks Ron,

I have been looking at helmets, this is very useful information.

BTW, I would consider this post far more ON TOPIC than alot of the recent
list activity.

Rick Glass
   Nashville, TN
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From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
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"SHO Tech" <techsho@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


Here's the content of a couple of posts that deal with helmets and airbags.
First is from the SCCA, and I have cut-n-pasted the second, which was from a
Ford release that someone posted.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Murray [mailto:mattm@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:03 PM
To: 911/993/996

Before you buy that helmet yet, there has been a firestorm on various Solo
2/autocross/rally list. Yesterday, the SCCA released the following
information. It is not final, but would certainly be relevant to your
purchases.

http://scca.org/_Filelibrary/File/AirbagAdvisory.pdf


In addition to what you mentioned they also are looking at this
information:
NOTE THIS IS NOT SCCA INFORMATION NOR SCCA DIRECTIVE, BUT INFO
FROM FORD.

Something from Ford that SCCA might find interesting.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, PLEASE CEASE USE OF FULL FACED
HELMETS IN VEHICLES WITH LIVE STEERING WHEEL AIRBAGS.

It was brought up at the recent International Committee for
Proving Ground Safety that several companies do not allow use of
full face helmets in vehicles with (driver-side) airbags,
due to the risk of severe neck injury for the airbag impacting the
bottom of the full-faced helmet. Full-faced helmets are, of
course, allowed in vehicles without airbags or in vehicles with
de-activated airbags.

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