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From: [email protected] (Michael Robinson)
Subject: Passenger helmet sizing
Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>In article [email protected], [email protected] (Norman Hamer) writes:
>>
>> The question for the day is re: passenger helmets, if you don't know for
>>certain who's gonna ride with you (like say you meet them at a .... church
>>meeting, yeah, that's the ticket)... What are some guidelines? Should I just
>>pick up another shoei in my size to have a backup helmet (XL), or should I
>>maybe get an inexpensive one of a smaller size to accomodate my likely
>>passenger?
>
>If your primary concern is protecting the passenger in the event of a
>crash, have him or her fitted for a helmet that is their size. If your
>primary concern is complying with stupid helmet laws, carry a real big
>spare (you can put a big or small head in a big helmet, but not in a
>small one).
While shopping for a passenger helmet, I noticed that in many cases the
external dimensions of the helmets were the same from S through XL. The
difference was the amount of inside padding.
My solution was to buy a large helmet, and construct a removable liner
from a sheet of .5" closed-cell foam and some satin (glued to the inside
surface). The result is a reasonably snug fit on my smallest-headed pillion
with the liner in, and a comfortable fit on my largest-headed pillion with
the liner out. Everyone else gets linered or not by best fit.
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