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NFL Helmet for Motorcycle use.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:29 pm
by Vit0r
How would a football helmet hold up for motorcycle use? They're proven on the football field but how would they hold up against asphalt?
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:30 pm
by Ninja Geoff
Is it DOT approved?
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:32 pm
by Vit0r
It's NFL licensed. NFL...DOT...close enough.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:35 pm
by jmillheiser
not well at all. football helmets are designed to take a completely different type of impact than a motorcycle helmet.
what helps a motorcycle helmet save your "O Ring" is the lining (not the soft cushy liner that touches your noggin but the harder foam liner that is between the soft liner and the shell). This lining is designed to compress under impact and reduce the rate of deceleration of your brain, and its only designed to do this ONCE.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:39 pm
by Vit0r
So wouldn't a football helmet be better since they can take impact more than once?
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:50 pm
by Ninja Geoff
Vit0r wrote:So wouldn't a football helmet be better since they can take impact more than once?
No. There's a differance between the force of hitting the ground at 40 mph and getting slammed to the ground at much slower speeds.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:50 pm
by jmillheiser
If its a linebacker hitting you then yes.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:02 pm
by Sev
That seems a lot like asking if a standard bulletproof vest will stop a knife.
The answer is no. They aren't designed to do that.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:01 am
by Mustang
I can see how an NFL player would seem daunting, but to compare a hit from one of them to hitting the asphalt at 40 - 70 miles per hour seems a little silly.
Could you imagine if the NFL had to replace their helmets everytime they were dropped or as is usually the case, thrown!
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:04 pm
by c-los
in every game AT LEAST one football player has his helmet come off after a hit...imagine that happening at 60 mph?