Bicycle Helmet Standards and Testing
Summary: This page has info on bicycle helmet standards, testing and more.
- Bicycle Helmet Standards
- Our quick summary of bike helmet standards.
- Standards for bicycle helmets
- The long version: CPSC, CEN, ASTM, ANSI, Snell and others.
- Short helmet standard comparison chart
- The short standards comparison chart.
- Detailed Standards Comparison
- Longer, detailed item-by-item comparison.
- ASTM F1952 Downhill Mountain Bike Racing Standard
- Comparison with CPSC standard.
- Test Line Comparisons
- CPSC, ASTM, Snell, Dutch
- The ideal helmet standard
- Our idea of the perfect bicycle helmet standard.
- Making progress in standards
- What is needed for further standards improvement.
- Importing bicycle helmets to the US
- Where to find US regulations for importing bike helmets.
- ASTM improves bicycle helmet standard
- ASTM adds variable mass headforms to F1447
- Helmet performance limits
- How much a helmet can take and keep on protecting.
- Helmet testing
- How helmets are tested in the lab.
- Helmet test labs
- Labs who test helmets or supply test equipment.
- ASTM headgear subcommittee
- Standards, meetings, background
- ANSI Z90.4 Committee - Disbanded
- History: ANSI replaced the Z90.4 standard with ASTM F1447
- We opposed Hövding airbag exemption from CPSC standard
- The product failed to provide the protection level required by the CPSC standard.
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