This public safety video by Road Safety department (JKJR) Perak shows why using a proper and certified motorcycle safety helmet is important, and necessary for saving lives. A cheap half-shell helmet is subjected to a blow by a hammer, and immediately shatters.
The other open-face helmet, with SIRIM (formerly known as Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia) stamp, is subjected to the same hammer blow, but stays intact. While this test is hardly objective and empirical, it serves to illustrate the difference in quality between a SIRIM certified helmet, and one that lacks any kind of certification.
It is even shown in the video that the half-shell helmet has a “Not for motorcycle use” sticker on it. However, this does not stop many motorcyclists, notably those from the lower income group, from buying such cheap helmets merely to fulfil the requirements of the law.
What about you dear reader, especially those who ride a motorcycle or scooter on a regular basis? Do you buy the best helmet you can afford, with proper certification such as SIRIM, CE, SHARP and the like?
Are you aware that helmets have a shelf life? That helmets that have been subjected to impact be replaced? What say you? Leave a comment with your thoughts and opinions, below.
This video is good but for anything to work well you need enforcement.
Everyday our polis see hundreds of moto riders riding without helmet.
they just keep quiet. Go to any kampung in Klang Valley also, people ride bikes with no helmet and even lambai to polis officer.
What does the polis officer do?
He lambai balik!
Let them. It’s natural selection at work. The dumb ones that don’t wear proper protection get killed off faster so that the smart ones can live on.
In Malaysia, nothing is considered illegal until you get caught by abang abang polis. This is sad, but true.
Sad but true. Its not the enforcement that is the problem, its the pipu mentality
Most people might miss this point, half shell helmets are much quieter than open face helmets.
because of those ear cover flaps? haha.. true.
Arai, Bell, Shoei and OGK Kabuto helmets that did’t come with sirim cert.
but they pass Snell, DOT cert.
Official imported helmet comply with SIRIM MS1:2011 penetration test, so official imported Arai have this sticker. So any helmet pass SIRIM MS1:2011 is superior in strength (not to be confused with MS1:1996 old standards). DOT and Snell doesn’t have any penetration test. Non official import doesn’t comply to SIRIM becuase their country doesn’t require penetration test. Up to the people to choose.
Go to setiawangsa, so many police quarters. But when it comes to motorbike, absolute lawlessness. Ikut suka diorg.
Good quality helmet quite expensive because gst and other tax . So how low income people you expect to buy this helmet.
That blue half helmet can use?
Asking the real questions.