DOT sticker?

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Bought a Scorpion exo at Two Wheel in Guelph and was going to install a Packtalk but noticed no DOT sticker, or any sticker. Went back to the store and all the EXO’s are the same, but the other Scorpion models have the DOT. Are they legal without a sticker?
 

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Safety features of the Exo-Tech Evo​

A helmet's job first and foremost is to provide protection. Constructed from Polycarbonate, this Black Exo-Tech Evo Polycarbonate The chinstrap is an important part of the helmet’s effectiveness in a crash and It is also the part that you interact with the most when putting on and taking off the helmet. The Exo-Tech Evo features a Micrometric buckle. Micrometric Of course all of our helmets are certified and road legal for European roads as this helmet is ECE 22.06 approved. This safety rating is also road legal in many other countries like Australia and Canada.
 
It does have to be marked somewhere to be legal, but I am 99% sure that it does have a marking. Keep looking
 
It is ECE 22.06 compliant. That standard is accepted here, but not in USA. Label will be inside somewhere.

My new HJC helmet is the same way. I am thinking that distributors have rerouted their supply chains to a European warehouse instead of USA because of ... take one guess.
 
They used to sell rolls of DOT stickers at the show.
 
I have had the helmet inside out and cant find a dot or ece anything. The only thing I worry about is getting stopped by the one dick cop that says prove it.
 
Lash said:
I have had the helmet inside out and cant find a dot or ece anything. The only thing I worry about is getting stopped by the one dick cop that says prove it.
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Go with the dot sticker. You know your head is safe. Cop can barely tell an ebike from a motorcycle, most won't have the stones to write a ticket without clear evidence that it will stick (eg get a sticker that looks plausible and don't hand draw it).
 
Lash said:
I have had the helmet inside out and cant find a dot or ece anything. The only thing I worry about is getting stopped by the one dick cop that says prove it.
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You`re way overthinking this. Every H-D rider, pretty much, is out there wearing a plastic beanie. The cops don`t care and have other things on their minds. Carry on.
 
Lash said:
I have had the helmet inside out and cant find a dot or ece anything. The only thing I worry about is getting stopped by the one dick cop that says prove it.
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There should be an E with a number, my Shark has E11 (in a circle) sewn on the chin strap, perhaps your is in a similar place?

My AGF had a DOT sticker on the back of the helmet but also an E3 (in a circle) on the the chin strap as well.
 
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You just made me go check my own helmets. My race helmet is a Scorpion but it's an older model (2022) and it has DOT and ECE 22.05 markings on the back of the shell in the usual spot. The chin strap contains the circled E with a number. My street helmet is an HJC which I believe was sourced from Europe for Canadian distribution (same situation as yours). There is no "ECE 22.06" marking that I can find on the helmet, either, but the chin strap contains the circled E with a number and a bunch of other numbers beside it, and a bar code.

That circled E with a number inside the circle, is called the "E-mark". The number is a code for the country in which the approval (evaluation of compliance to relevant standards) was granted (E3 means Italy, E4 means Netherlands, E11 means Great Britain, etc), and the other numbers (and probably the bar code) will probably only be meaningful to the helmet manufacturer and the testing laboratory who did the approval. Somewhere in that rabbit hole where those numbers lead, will be the declaration of conformity to ECE 22.06 for that helmet model.

edit: In the box with the helmet, should be the user manual. A brief version of the declaration of conformity should be in there.
 
Hypothesis: the ones with the DOT label were sourced from a US warehouse prior to the vendor rerouting their supply chain, and the one you have happened after that. Helmets can sit in inventory for a long time ...

If it has the E-mark on the chin strap, it's fine.
 
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