I am in no way even intending to mention MHL. The thread is asking Do you really need an Aus helmet?
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http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/mo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... lmets.html
http://roadrider.com.au/special-feature" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... of-helmets
I did say this stuff can blow your mind. And it is an alternative view to what the helmet stickers are all about. I am just reading the posts of others with an open mind. No axe to grind here.
You see if a bloke buys a helmet from OS it will be a good one. Not a $20—item that is freely available here in Coles or Anaconda. It may not be to Aus standards but can be made so however with the blessing of the sticker from the said, cheap Aussie purchase. This is being done more frequently that many realise.
Those two internet sites look into our laws and try to make sense of the matter if the label gets lost or falls off a good correctly made Aussie helmet.
It appears the police cannot immediately make you guilty as proven because a label has fallen off, If it is a locally purchased passed product its status has not changed with the loss of a sticker. The store or manufacture should issue you another sticker that was defective in application or quality.
You are not required to carry proof of purchase of a helmet in your pocket.
I am on the side of the consumer. Those sites show that a cartel exists in Australia and they have set up only a few test stations to be used buy a select group of manufacturers.
The sites also show the disregard of the industries own regs and overnight changes to laws that make a helmet redundant even between states. Also that the Aus NZ trade agreements is letting in different standard helmets to allow the trade agreements to exist by default.
This info is certainly a radical step away from a blind faith in the Aus regulations and make a thinking person look at the laws with a different perspective.
The stereo topic “My mate said and MHL hysteria” are irrelevant. I think it is an interesting prospect to assume that we can be declared innocent rather than immediately guilty if found with a ticket less helmet.
One wonders why a sticker can’t be imbedded in manufacture and the clear cote applied over it. This is how my old crappy “Headway “ helmet is made.
Heavens to Bettsy, could it be that the intrepid “manufacturers” are simply bringing in helmets and gluing a label to them?