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Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« on: January 19, 2011, 12:03:52 PM »
Morning all

In the name of R&D i forked out £112.00 for an Albion Ultimate 98 which was purchased thorugh Sports online on sunday evening...its turned up today which was a great turnaround time.

I was intrigued to see just how light the Ultimate 98 was with the "carbon fibre" shell now being used by Albion and their claims to be the lightest helmet on the market.

I broke out the trusty salter scales as have been previously used for such weigh offs!.....Ill let the pictures do the talking as below........

Albion Ultimate 98 with Ti grille



ACIS Elite with Ti grille


ACIS Premier with Ti Grille


I would be interested what others ACIS Premier/Elite helmets weigh that have them on here in various designs etc in comparism to our stock shells.

In summary

Albion Ultimate 98 = 804g
ACIS Elite = 648g
ACIS Premier = 701g

As a side note these helemts have the 2009 Ti grille on which is 174g comparred to our 2010 with was 150g...Also the ACIS Raw will be lighter again due to the fact is hasnt got any paint on it as such....I will weigh these once we have some back in the office.
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2011, 12:15:53 PM »
show off :)
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2011, 12:17:05 PM »
Now your R&D is over

I'll buy the Albion off you ;)
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2011, 12:18:22 PM »
So you mean a company just spowted some crap that's not true to sell something I don't believe it
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2011, 12:27:22 PM »
You've got to be careful with the whole 'carbon fibre' claims made by some companies, not necessarily just in cricket. A rep told me some camera tripod manufacturers who produce alarmingly cheap 'carbon fibre' tripods just take a standard steel/ally frame and put a thin layer of CF on the top, so it looks the job. Totally reverse logic, as as we all know, the joy of CF is its relatively low weight.
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2011, 12:51:19 PM »
About bloody time you cracked the whip Thomas!!
I love a good bit of R&D, especially when it runs in my favour. come on, you must have been super smug after that mate.  I would have been all over Albion with this!! William my good man you have just seen the Albion isn't as good as an Ayrtek, now stop being tight and buy a RAW!! We all know you have deeper pockets than you make out pal  ;) hahaha 
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2011, 12:52:08 PM »
http://www.seriouscricket.co.uk/shop/product.php/2818/50/

Will you challenge their claim to be:

"Safest and lightest cricket helmet available - superior strength to weight ratio achieved using F1/ Aircraft design technology"

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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2011, 12:55:45 PM »
Did you write that for them Tom?? Looks familiar
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2011, 01:06:43 PM »
Quote from: ProWannabe88 on January 19, 2011, 12:51:19 PM
William my good man you have just seen the Albion isn't as good as an Ayrtek, now stop being tight and buy a RAW!! We all know you have deeper pockets than you make out pal  ;) hahaha

I think they are lovely mate, just really not my cup of tea regarding style that's all! Tom will be bossing the market soon enough I'm sure.

Weighing up a Masuri ti or Albion ti...I don't know what to get and I have massive nut
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2011, 01:09:05 PM »
Well people are starting to ban the masuri for not being safe enough so go for the Albion I would say
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2011, 01:12:41 PM »
Yeah Albion, if you really don't want an Ayrtek...They do offer some great protection though!! :)
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2011, 01:13:43 PM »
Quote from: roco on January 19, 2011, 01:09:05 PM
Well people are starting to ban the masuri for not being safe enough so go for the Albion I would say
Are they? Where is this happening?
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2011, 01:16:03 PM »
Better to ask people who know more but I have been told Derbyshire ccc have stopped their players using them
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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2011, 01:21:53 PM »
Quote from: roco on January 19, 2011, 01:09:05 PM
Well people are starting to ban the masuri for not being safe enough so go for the Albion I would say


I am sure Kieron Pollard will be at the front of the Ayrtek queue...Dom Cork saw to that eh?

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Re: Albion Ultimate 98 vs ACIS Elite and ACIS Premier....battle of the lightweights
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2011, 02:50:51 PM »
Tom will you be willing to sell the grille?
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