 Poster: A snowHead
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OK, whats the general consensus on putting stickers on helmets - safe or not?
I know with motorcycle helmets it's always been said not to as the glue can affect the helmets integrity - is this the same with ski helmets, do people put stickers on anyway or avoid doing it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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sH stickers go very well on helmets
can't believe it would harm the integrity
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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HSE guidelines (we are talking construction industry now) state only stickers issued by the manufacturer of the helmet can supply stickers to apply to it. The thinking being chemicals in the adhesive can effect the plastics.
How much effect stickers actually have, I can find no evidence.
I had my helmet sprayed up to negate the need for stickers  - even then they had to use water based paint and add several clear finishing coats as the wrong type of paint can seriously effect the plastics
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(I say this as a helmet wearer myself...)
Unless you're ski racing or otherwise in a situation where you could be testing the limits of a helmet's construction then I wouldn't worry about it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I don't own a helmet, but would say from experience in the construction industry that probably the biggest danger would be that stickers could cover up any flaws/cracks in the helmet. (It is illegal to put stickers on hardhats/ladders etc for this reason)
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In theory, thermoplastic shells (eg. pretty much every single ski helmet) could be damaged by the adhesives. In practise you'll have a job finding stickers with suitably destructive glue, getting enough of that glue onto the helmet to do damage, and keeping it there long enough to do its work.
There have been a few unscientfic experiments on this that you can find with a bit of searching, here's one: http://www.helmets.org/stickers.htm
Still, at least they're not camera mounts, eh?
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Seeing most helmets have a sticker on them already, I reckon you're ok in maintaining the integrity of the helmet. Maintaining your personal dignity is another matter.
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Put as many stickers on as possible, it will protect the helmet integrity from the far more destructive effects of apres ski bar floor scratches!
pro tip... remove the stickers after 2 years and hey presto! new helmet!
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Richard_Sideways, dulcamara, 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I heard legend that the glue used on the Snowheads stickers is made from a secret blend of Marmot whistles, the congealed substance that forms on the underside of the Apres Zone and the rendered bones of the old SCGB forum...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Richard_Sideways, The boss man uses the same glue to keep that wig on.
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The SH stickers will make you ski better if placed on helmet, I've carried out a scientific test on myself, and since getting the stickers on my helmet I can now ski better than I could before.
They did have a strange smell, but now Richard_Sideways, has explained it, I now know why 
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You know it makes sense.
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Little Martin, tried sticking mine to my sportube today, but nothing wants to stick to it ggrrrr
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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PaulC1984, My first snowboard had a weird matt surface which stickers refused to stick to - whenever I tried they'd always peel off, you could track where I'd been by following the trail of unstuck stickers. So in the end I stencilled it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Richard_Sideways, Being a snowboarder the trail cant have gone far - surely they were in a circle in the middle of the slope as you sat doing up your bindings
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Always to the side PaulC1984, always to the side...
Plus a lot of that early riding was in the US/CA - they know how to build a trail over there without all that cat-track uphill nonsense.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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PaulC1984, Fishing today are we?
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probably the biggest danger would be that stickers could cover up any flaws/cracks in the helmet
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^^^^ This
You also run the risk of looking pretty lame.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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dulcamara, Me, fishing, never! There is only one rod I use for hucking things, and its not used around fish
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