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Here’s my highside. Hard to see but if you look closely you can sort of see what happened. This is the second serious fall with this moto helmet and it resulted in a headache for about an hour. I totally should have replaced that helmet after the first hard fall, but it’s 100% getting replaced before the new season really starts up.
Probably if this were the first fall in this helmet I wouldn’t even have had a headache afterwards.
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wow. Eskate Racing falls are skeeeechhh. Genuinly would rather take road rash at 60 on a mountian road.
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Out where nobody will find you for days and a cougar will probably clean you up?
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there’s no cougars in california 
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I take it you don’t go to bars much 
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nope! Still at moms house 
Dawg, I know you’ve switched to an ECE rated helmet but please tell me you don’t plan to continue reusing crashed-in helmets. Or riding home to take a nap while concussed.
Please don’t ride impaired and please seek medical help when you’re injured, you’re already riding a lightning powered murder board that’s faster and more powerful than 99% of what’s out there. Just please be safe.
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That crash when I got a concussion and was sleeping till 4pm was with the mtb helmet. I trashed that helmet immediately. And had no other way to get home than to ride home. Wasn’t alone at least, had a friend with me.
Also replacing my ECE helmet asap, definitely before the new season starts. I was broke when I first crashed it (within like 5 rides of buying it…) and I just kinda forgot about it after for a while, I know it’s no excuse though… But will not be repeating that same mistake in the future.
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I know a guy that crashed at 32 wearing a pass pro. He broke his jaw and had a bad brain bleed which led to a coma. He ended up surviving but he got royally fucked up.
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I actually would love to have a TSG Pass if I ever wound up doing a thane build. But it’s definitely not rated for the stuff we do.
I can recommended any MTB downhill helmet with robust design around 1kg weight, in best case with mips or two density foam . Definitely avoid ultra lightweight MTB helmet. 7idp project 23 just ABS version saved my life and thanx to they crash replacement program now using the same helmet but carbon version. Based on personal checks fiberglass version ist most stiff for good money. Iam using in on my mountain board with speed max around 50km/h and for race using every time motocross helmet.
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I can definitely not, I was wearing one when I crashed a little bit ago and it performed extremely poorly. Replaced it with and AGV k6s and it is more than worth the minimal added weight to have a helmet designed for an activity closer to the riding and falling we do. I think mtb helmets are not a great fit for esk8. They are designed for falling on a different surface at a lower speed. I won’t argue that MTB helmets are comfortable and well ventilated at low speed. I can ride in 110° weather no problem as long and I have my visior up with my agv it isn’t quite as nice as an MTB helmet but we’ll worth the sacrifice.
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yeah i think the mtb style of helmet would probably be fine but it needs to be dot or preferably ece rated
this being an example of one
https://www.motosport.com/fox-racing-2024-v3-helmet-with-mips-magnetic
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That’s a fair point, there’s nothing making them inherently less safe but the vast majority are not ECE 22.06 rated and most don’t have any moto rating at all. I would have no issues wearing something like that. Especially the super light ones maybe have a useless bike certificate but nothing like ece.
As long as you are shopping by certification not style or weight you will be better off.
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there are many other certifications out there and all of their testing methodologies differ. it’s a good idea to know at least the basics of what each certification tests for.
there are cycling helmets with SNELL, there are motorcycle helmets that don’t even get DOT. there are multiple ECE standards now and other certs I don’t even know about.
this 100%
basically from what i understand, most to least protection:
ece 22.06
ece 22.05
dot
mips and snell
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Snell
mips
ece 22.06
ece 22.05
dot
Is how I would order it, most to least protection.
looking at snell vs ece comparisons,
i’ve heard that mips can be mimicked by simply wearing a durag or hair wave cap under your helmet but idk how true it is tho.
after looking at snell vs ece, snell might be better than ece for numerous impacts to the same spot but idk. i know ece is good so imma stick with it.
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ECE is rated for both low speed and high speed impact, also rotational force too. For regular use I would say ECE all the way, SNELL is good but it’s more of a track certification.
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