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Where To File An "Official" Motorcycle Helmet Complaint With NHTSA


This is not about helmet use, this is about Un-Safe helmets and Helmet Laws

www.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov

This campaign started on Halloween. In the first 48 hours it has already doubled the number of "official" complaints over the last 12 years. It wasn't difficult to do, because not many people knew where to go to file an "official" complaint. Soon we hope every biker, motorcyclist, and motorcycle enthusiast knows and files a complaint about every helmet they have and don't like for whatever reason.

While there, please check the recall data. Over 500,000 recalled helmets are potentially in use, because the recall process is no good, and bad helmets are not accounted for. Many have all the right "DOT" labeling. Some full-face helmets have been recalled. FMVSS 218 is a farce! Manufacturers self-certify and put their helmets on the market. This is like the FDA not testing a drug, then forcing people to take it. Then later, the helmets might get recalled, but it is extremely rare that anyone ever gets notified. 32,052 Fullmer helmets were deemed to not conform with FMVSS 218 in June 2006, but were allowed to delay beginning recalls until February 2007. AFX FX3 supposedly recalled potentially 39,378 helmets in March 2003, but my friend bought one still in its' box last month, and it's got all the DOT labels.


Please be sure to pass this message along to everyone you know who rides motorcycles!


NHTSA ODI Complaint Site at: www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov then go to "continue with complaint" and it takes you through the steps from here: www.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/...nsumer.cfm You'll need to follow the steps. You have to input your make and model of helmet...

1. go to" FILE A COMPLAINT "
2. Equipment
3 continue with complaint
4 fill out personal info
5 enter the complaint details and then click on "Proceed" to select a Complaint Type
6 Select Complaint Type mark= Equipment
7 Equipment Information ( example KBC ) hit GO
this will take you through the make and model
8 proceed




Garry Van Kirk
Bikers Accident Survivor Forum
www.bacsuv.com
bikeraccsurvivor@bacsuv.com
Supporting Our Right to Ride, Supporting Bikers In their Time Of Need.
" You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."
~Clarence Darrow~

no thanks ill stick to wearing my helmet.

Let me clarify...

This is not about Helmet USE..this is about Helmet Safety and Helmet Laws.

There is NOT a List put out by NHTSA of approved Helmets with the tiny sticky "DOT" sticker, because NHTSA DOES NOT APPROVE HELMETS!

Just like they DO NOT stamp "DOT" on light bulbs for automobiles, it's placed there by the manufacturer as a marketing tool to be inline with safety guidlines 108.

Garry Van Kirk
Bikers Accident Survivor Forum
www.bacsuv.com
bikeraccsurvivor@bacsuv.com
Supporting Our Right to Ride, Supporting Bikers In their Time Of Need.
" You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."
~Clarence Darrow~

oh im sorry. thanks for clarifying. I misread what was posted.

MY BRAIN IS MY SECOND FAVORITE ORGAN. I'LL KEEP WEARING MY HELMET.

Thanks there is a lot of info (mostly via links) here.

To 5 on Your Side, WRAL Consumer Investigator Christine Bennett
The NHTSA standard for motorcycle helmets is pathetic. The following is offered as a spoof, and I need to say that, because they've got lots of lawyers.


The Arai Profile with approximate pricing from $450 to $527 is available now through many sites on the internet! Was $799.95!

Just in time for winter, you can have a full face helmet which failed performance tests (low temperature impact). However, it passed label tests, and since they are full face helmets, the chances that you will be stopped by law enforcement officers who use their own subjective approval criteria is slim to none! It even has the DOT label on the outside and all the required labels on the inside. You won't find this 3 lbs., 10-3/8 oz neck-breaker on the recalls database. Consumers interested in this model were also interested in the new Payola helmets.

Try one on today and find out why we say, torture and reduced vision should be its' own proof of compliance!

Jubilant consumers are saying:
"That DOT label from Tojo is plenty enough assurance for me!"
"Can I please pay more?"
and, "What? I can't hear you!"

Presented by Better Marketing through Mandatory Legislation


FMVSS 218 Helmet Test Data For FY 2006


http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/testing/comply/fmvss218/

How can fourteen out of the forty helmets that were tested in the year of 2006
with performance failures not reach the motorcycle community? Yet the NTSB
can recommend a mandatory helmet law? NTSB & NHTSA lobby safety in Helmet use but
will not take the platform to let this information be known to us, the motorcycle community?

This report was last updated on September 19, 2007

And now it's over a year later?

Compliance Testing, Motorcycle Helmets FMVSS 218

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/testing/comply/fmvss218/

Here is my agenda, and I hope you find my agenda well worth the effort (1) to protect and support anyone's right of choice (2) to protect and support the right for those who have aready ( like most of you here) (3) most of all, to support the safety of those like you and me.