Helmet Colors & Painting Your Helmet

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

I just read several articles about the pros and cons of spraying colors and or added graphics to racer's crash helmets.

Viirtually every manufacturer who makes safety crash helmets for our sport and many other sports will tell you to buy your helmet in the range of colors allowed in your sport with color impregnated, engineered into and manufactured by that manufacturer. If your change the color by overspraying the original color of the crash helmet you are due to the paint coatings added, are changing the safety engineering (crush strengths and flexabilities) of the helmet itself that could render the use of the helmet more dangerous or ineffective to the user's safety because the helmet's properties have been changed by the added coatings.

Think about it before you buy or you do. You don't want or need to compromise safety.