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Mark, I am not sure why you took my post as personal since it was not specifically addressed to you, and I am sure the rest of Primers like me, are not necessarily aware of your certification or credentials or training ........ but then again, you just confirmed what I speculated using simple common sense analytical thinking! And I quote:

Air bags are compliant and fully crushable, the interior of your helmet will crush only slightly. The risk of injury in that scenario is that your face may strike the interior of the helmet, not that the helmet would fail. This does emphasize the critical importance of proper fit. Underline emphasis added

Exactly. You want the helmet to absorb the impact and dissipate it with crushing to presumably disburse the impact. Per your post, it's the fit that is the issue and not the fact that the air bag hits the helmet and thus crushes the helmet. Right?

FWIW, mine is a Shoei and I am in the market for a new one, open enough for eyeglasses and Nomex of course. Unfortunately Shoei hasn't released one for cars with Nomex.

YMMV.

<blockquote data-quote="Hrant" data-source="post: 692139" data-attributes="member: 4839">Mark, I am not sure why you took my post as personal since it was not specifically addressed to you, and I am sure the rest of Primers like me, are not necessarily aware of your certification or credentials or training ........ but then again, you just confirmed what I speculated using simple common sense analytical thinking! And I quote:Air bags are compliant and fully crushable, the interior of your helmet will crush only slightly. The risk of injury in that scenario is that your face may strike the interior of the helmet, not that the helmet would fail. This does emphasize the critical importance of proper fit. Underline emphasis added <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Exactly. You want the helmet to absorb the impact and dissipate it with crushing to presumably disburse the impact. Per your post, it&#039;s the fit that is the issue and not the fact that the air bag hits the helmet and thus crushes the helmet. Right? FWIW, mine is a Shoei and I am in the market for a new one, open enough for eyeglasses and Nomex of course. Unfortunately Shoei hasn&#039;t released one for cars with Nomex.YMMV.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hrant, post: 692139, member: 4839"] Mark, I am not sure why you took my post as personal since it was not specifically addressed to you, and I am sure the rest of Primers like me, are not necessarily aware of your certification or credentials or training ........ but then again, you just confirmed what I speculated using simple common sense analytical thinking! And I quote: [B]Air bags are compliant and fully crushable, the interior of your helmet will crush only slightly. The risk of injury in that scenario is that your face [U]may strike the interior of the helmet[/U], not that the helmet would fail. This [U]does emphasize the critical importance of proper fit[/U].[/B] Underline emphasis added :rolleyes: Exactly. You want the helmet to absorb the impact and dissipate it with crushing to presumably disburse the impact. Per your post, it's the fit that is the issue and not the fact that the air bag hits the helmet and thus crushes the helmet. Right? FWIW, mine is a Shoei and I am in the market for a new one, open enough for eyeglasses and Nomex of course. Unfortunately Shoei hasn't released one for cars with Nomex. YMMV. [/QUOTE]

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