LINK: SHARP Now Testing Flip-up Motorcycle Helmets

Mike Werner's excellent site has a posting today on the ratings being earned by various helmet manufacturers who make "flip up" helmets. If you wear one, be sure to check out this posting to see how your helmet did. Mine apparently sucks! LINK

Looks like its time to look for a new helmet even though my KBC FFR did fine during my accident back in June of this year. The fact though that it its chin portion only stayed locked in place 43% of time time during SHARP's testing is very worrisome though.

The above is for my helmet!

From the SHARP site:
SHARP is the Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme - it's the new helmet safety scheme for motorcyclists.

SHARP enables riders to more easily select a helmet which matches their needs. It provides consumers with an independent assessment of the safety performance of helmets sold in the UK. The SHARP RATING reflects the performance of each helmet model following a series of advanced laboratory tests and rates helmets from 1-5 stars.

More from Mike Werner's posting:

The first 20 have been entered in their extensive database:

Make	Model	Rating
AGV	Longway	4
Airoh	Matisse RS	2
BMW	System 5	5
Caberg	Trip	5
	Justissimo GT	4
Duchinni	D601	1
G-MAC	Concept	3
Grex	RF2	4
KBC	FFR	1
Lazer	Granville	4
	Revolution	4
Nolan	N103	4
	N102	4
ROOF	Boxer	4
Schuberth	C2	4
Shark	Openline	3
	Evoline	4
Shoei	Multitech	3
Viper	RS V121	3
	RS RS101	4

Update: There's apparently some "debate" as to SHARP's criteria and use of test data and testing protocol creation. Unsurprisingly, some helmet manufacturers are not happy with the results published on their products. More details here on webbikeworld.com: LINK