Snell Approved Helmets… the store behind the name
This is a stamp of approved not held by the majority of motorbike helmets… in fact it is only the full face helmets that are rewarded for theie safety during an accident… check this out:
What’s The Snell Foundation? The Snell Memorial Foundation was established in 1957 for
William Snell. Will died after a motorcycle accident from head trauma. Snell is a nonprofit organization working to understand head trauma and learn to help prevent it.
What is kick ass about Snell is that they update their standards every 5 years, which is different from DOT (who hasn’t updated in decades), this makes helmet manufacturers continually update their own helmets for optimum safety standards. And since bikes are always being made to be lighter, faster, and more dangerous this is a great principle.
The Snell Approved standards apply to motorcycles, bikes, racing helmets and other headgear. This biggest difference between DOT and Snell are the tests and the way their results are reported.
Some tests are the same but with differing variables, for example… in the drop test Snell drops helmets from higher distances giving the landing impact a greater force.
Here is another big difference… DOT run testing on the honors system, having the manufacturers test for their approved while Snell test the helmets themselves. They also make manufacturers test 5 helmets for the best approval.
