SHARP, the Department for Transport’s helmet testing programme, has released test results for a further eleven helmets bringing the total number of helmets tested to 300. Introduced in 2007, the SHARP tests, which award ratings of between one and five stars, are claimed to show that the safety performance of helmets can vary by as much as 70 per cent. Latest ratings are as follows.
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| Full face helmets   | |||
| Â | Model | Rating | Latch |
| AGV | Grid | 4 | – |
| Duchinni | D832 | 5 | – |
| Frank Thomas | FF07 | 4 | – |
| Icon | Alliance | 3 | – |
| Icon | Airframe | 4 | – |
| Nexx | XR1R | 3 | – |
| NZi | Premium S | 3 | – |
| Viper | RS-V5 Zero | 3 | – |
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| System (Flip) Helmets | |||
| Frank Thomas | FL09 | 3 | 20% |
| LS2 | FF370 | 4 | 100% |
| Nolan | N104 | 4 | 100% |
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