You Probably Need to Replace Your Helmet
You Probably Need to Replace Your Helmet
That 15-year-old helmet you have stashed in the garage? Toss it.
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What I hate about this, is that every time it comes up, nobody ever really goes into details of why. What is no longer safe? What breaks down? Or is it updated standards? Just fucking get into the reasons so people can make rational choices, instead of just saying "trust me bro."
You mean like this?
That doesn't explain anything.
UV light damages the plastics that the helmet is made of. Impacts, even small impacts, compress the foam. Temperature fluctuations burst the bubbles in the foam and cause stress which weakens the plastic.
The paragraph explains why even if it doesn’t explain how.
It does not provide enough information to make a rational decision with. Especially when that's the entire focus of the article.
Even the level of detail in your post would have been an improvement, even though it's still significantly lacking.
If you want to take advice from vague blog spam that's your business. I'd prefer not to.
Didn’t say you had to. You do you.
The foam breaks down over time or after an impact. It's your brain kid, protect it.