^^^your right this is stupid.. been reading the dragster site:
debacle355 wrote:
After talking to Andra-David Baker , I found out that any helmet with original/common AS1698 is not the right one to use.
It must be AS/NZS1698:2006 or AS/NZS1698.
Now that may sound the same when you say it fast, but AS1698 & AS/NZS1698 are different standards.
As explained it doesn't mean it has to have the :2006 prefix on the end, as long as it has the NZS incorporated, because thats when the australian & nz standards were brought together at the same time.
AS1698 = NO
AS/NZS1698:2006 = YES
AS/NZS1698 =YES
Thats the way it was explained to me, maybe one of the ANDRA guys could clarify that.
Originally Posted by Slow96GSR
If 1 person has had bad luck with a product don’t condemn it until you yourself have tested it. Now if 10 pros have tried it and it sucked then I would trust their opinion.
ok just rang WSID and spoke with a lady there.
Apparently you can still use a AS1698, but it must have a manufacture date that is less than 12yr old, not the date you brought the helmet.
Also AS1698:2006 are not available for sale in NSW currently. You can only get these in VIC. She told me that's the stupidity of the standard lol
It seems to me that's a NZ standard? why would we be complying to NZ standards?
i read the whole thread... its gay...
its coz when AS & NZS were combined there were new manufacturing testing standards... in addition to just AS... but no one in that thread was willing to pay $35 to read the full regulation book lol
Originally Posted by Slow96GSR
If 1 person has had bad luck with a product don’t condemn it until you yourself have tested it. Now if 10 pros have tried it and it sucked then I would trust their opinion.
yeah i was up all night reading that stupid thread. It didn't really make much sense. And it contridicted itself alot. Then i went to the ANDRA site which wasn't much help also as it only says it wanted comment on the item and that they were looking at the new standard. Also the WSID site just said helmet.
P.S a Snell standard will get you out of it all, go figure
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