CHARLES OWEN HELMETS

Charles Owen is the only manufacturer that has a wide range of helmets that are independently certified to the three most recognized standards in the world. There are many arguments about which standard is the best in the world. Making helmets to all the major recognised standards is Charles Owen's way of winning no matter what the outcome. It is only in the small helmets that we decided to stay with the European and British approach. We believe that the ASTM standard requires too stiff and bulky helmets for little heads. In the laboratory it may be okay, but our mission is to use our expertise to protect the riders of the future from helmets that are too stiff and that may cause neck injury due to their bulk.

Standards are all about setting the minimum acceptable standard of safety. Charles Owen since 1953 has been part of the committees setting these standards. To enable us to do our job as a member of the British, European and American standards committees, requires us to be building the helmets of the future and researching the performance of those compared to the current. Working with doctors, engineers, material scientist ensures that our designs are constantly being updated to give you the best.

While many designers use the test head forms as the basis of their designs, we know from our extensive anthropological studies that real heads are just not the same as test dummies, especially as their basis is from research of males and female heads are quite different. It is well known amongst safety experts that the fit of the helmet is an extremely important factor in the level of safety afforded to the user. Not only do we design helmets to fit better, we design helmets for the wide variety of head shapes and we train our distributors in how to ensure the correct fit. In the event of difficulty, courses are run to train personnel in custom hat fitting. Giving the user a pack of pads to use themselves is really not good enough.

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