[robz71lm7]

After sunday's autocross a novice asked on our region's message board about getting a cheap helmet. He got replies ranging from links where you could get an M2000 helmet for $60 and one even $49!

The site we raced at sunday was a military air strip with tall grass off the sides. The dirt wasn't always flat and smooth. In fact, yesterday and S2000 went off into the grass sideways-he wasn't the only one to go off into the grass. Now is it just me or this the kind of place where a good possibility of rolling over exists?

It just kind of disturbs me that people will recommend and use such cheap helmets. Am I being a little excessive here?

What's everyone's opinion on helmets in autocross?

[trackbird]

if you want to really take an active role in telling people that they are ignorant.. then i would suggest by starting with motorcycle riders that don't wear helmets at all

Sounds like you've been in Ohio.

I'd like to suggest an alternative to trying to talk to those morons. Just run 'em off the road. They'll figure it out. (Maybe we should call that the George Carlin approach, it sounds like a suggestion he'd make).

Ok, maybe not.

I never understood the no helmet school of thought. As a person who has been in a high speed motorcycle accident, I am the poster child for helmets. I will tell anyone and everyone to wear one. I am quite certain that a helmet is the only reason I'm still here (and yes, I threw it away after the accident). And, it seems that we lose about 1-2 riders a month during the Summer from accidents with no helmet. Many at 25mph or less it seems. Sad.....