The Shark RSR2 helmet, The Helmet which Saved my Life

I love the Shark RSR2 helmet. Partly because of the super-cool paint job, and partly because of its light weight double-D fastener, comfortable fit, effective vents and robust 3mm-thick mist-free visors. Thin visors I found on other helmets can vibrate, the thick visor on the Shark keeps vibration and noise down.

The Shark RSR2 helmet is rated as a low noise helmet. The noise helmets produce is often not taken serious, but did you know that most helmets produce about 80 decibels at speeds of around 65km/h. The average speed a motorcycle travels on the highway deliver a day's maximum noise exposure in just 15 minutes. If you wear your helmet daily for commuting to work your doctor can find evidence of hearing damage in less than a year.

But I especially love it because a few months ago I used a black Shark RSR2 helmet to demolish several small trees in one big crash. And I'm still able to talk about it, all because I was wearing the right gear. The Shark's clever construction uses a ridged 'crumple zone' of polystyrene in addition to the usual thickness of liner, with a long-thread composite shell to transfer the force away from the area of impact.

Does it work? When I crashed, my skull crushed the crumple zone but didn't dent the primary polystyrene protection layer, while the shell shed energy of the crash – you could trace the long fibers down the the edge of the helmet, and only there was there a small crack.

When I crashed with a speed of around 120km/h I gave the Shark RSR2 helmet the mother of all beatings and lived to tell the tale. A helmet can't do better than that. And did I mention that it looks super-cool?