This Safety Equip. Good Enough For Track?

[Super Dave]

++++1 Suomy & BSI.

[Scotty Ryan]

++++1 Suomy & BSI.

After talking with Dave and the Guys at Suomy this past weekend, After three individual Suomy employees took time out of their busy day to explain the hard facts about the helmets and the processes that they use to manufacture, along with the difference between the BSI ratings and SNELL/DOT ratings - I am sold.....Bad thing is I almost don't want to ride with my current helmet anymore / Barber is next weekend - but I don't think I will be able to get one in time.....After seven concussions you don't take safety lightly....

[Scotty Ryan]

I'd argue that point.  I got hooked up with Suomy a number of years ago.  Suomy makes their lids to the softer BSI standard.  Recently, there has been much ado in the motorcycle press about the Snell standard being too hard, therefore allowing the brain to absorb more G forces than a softer BSI rated helmet.
Before I started wearing Suomy, I'd been either knocked out or obviously concussed a number of times in Snell rated Shoei helmets.  As I began crash testing the Suomy helmets, (What can I say, I'm a crasher.... :-[) low and behold I started getting hurt less!  The rest of me would still get pounded, but the worst my melon has suffered after a crash in a Suomy lid was a mild headache.
Now this isn't exactly hard science, but I can say that my worst-ever crash was in a Suomy.  I stoppied right over the top and had the bike drive me into the asphalt helmet first.  The workers thought I was dead.  (They should have seen it from MY viewpoint!  I KNEW I was dead!)  Well, it took a full year for some of my injuries to stop bothering me on a daily basis, and there are aches from that wreck that I suspect will be with me forever, but I wasn't even knocked out.
I'd sooner wear a Snell helmet than a baseball cap, but a BSI standard helmet is where I'd spend my money, and these days I refuse to race in anything less than a Suomy helmet.

To help out with K3's point check out this interesting link. It gives you an idea as to why the BSI standard is higher then the DOT/SNELL...http://www.suomy-usa.com/ssafetya.htm

[PolishPete]

Thanks for all the input guys.