What you need to know!

What STAR rating is your helmet?

Ever wondered how good your helmet really is?

Or which helmets are rated 5 stars?

Now you can find out!

An independent Australian group called 'CRASH' (Consumer Ratings and Assessment of Safety Helmets) test and award star ratings to motorcycle helmets.

CRASH test 30 dirt bike helmets each year to a similar test Standard as the Australian Standard...

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What's wrong with existing helmets?

Motorsport helmets are the best helmets in the world. That's a no-brainer. However, they still use the same 'protection-system' of a rigid shell and hard EPS (Expanded Polystyrene), dating back to the late 1950's. Yes, 60 long years!!

EPS is a single-use material. When it's damaged it's done, it's no longer effective.

To make EPS last longer, hard EPS is used....

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Why develop a new dirt bike helmet?

The 'light bulb moment' came when Paul, the inventor of Heltech, tried pushing his thumb into the shock-absorbing EPS at the back of his helmet after a crash. The EPS was so hard that he was going to buckle his thumb before he made a dent into the EPS.

So how the hell was it going to save his head in a big crash?!!! It wasn't.

Then, when champion Aussie MX racer...

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