It certainly saved me and [u]I'm not complaining or trying to say anything bad about it[/u], but I think my next full face wll be a proper heavy duty one
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Looks to me like it did exactly what it's designed to do, i.e saved your face by absorbing the energy of the impact through deformation. Bravo Giro I say!
Given the same impact I would expect a 'proper'full face helmet to do the same.
What did you got and how hard an impact??
I doubt very much a full facer would not have taken same damage except the movement on the chin bar
But had that not been there then an exspensive dental bill or more
I had a belter of a crash and wrecked my full facer and still ended up with eye socket and check bone breaks
But for sure I would have sustained more damage if it was just a trail lid
Hmmm.....
Leaves disappointed after expecting to see video of crash.
Honestly, glad you got away with no major injuries.
It would have made for better analysis SPalsh 🙂
It was coming off a 5-6ft drop, guess going around 25mph, rocky trail, landed ok but then I just remember being whipped to the floor, hit lhs of face pretty much square on
Left with a sore jaw, mild concussion and cuts to my face, one above my eye where the MIPS dug in and bruising from goggles
It was a solid stack! I was more than happy with how the Switchblade performed
One other thing tho - I was very very glad I was wearing goggles - still got a slight goggle shaped bruise around my eye where they'd compressed against me