Equipment: motorcycle: helmets (Cosmopolitan)
Vehicle equipment recall 85E-023. NHTSA received COSMOPOLITAN MOTORS, INC.’s report on Aug 6, 1985.
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The short answer
NHTSA received COSMOPOLITAN MOTORS, INC.’s report on Aug 6, 1985. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
THE HELMET FAILS TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF FMVSS 218 S5.1 IMPACT ATTENTUATION, S5.2 PENETRATION, AND S5.6 LABELING.
CONSEQUENCE OF DEFECT: THE HELMET FAILS TO MEET THE FMVSS MAY RESULT IN INJURY TO THE WEARER IN THE EVENT OF A SEVERE IMPACT.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Equipment: motorcycle: helmets.
What should you do?
REPLACE HELMET WITH ONE THAT IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH FMVSS 218.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: MOTORCYCLES.SYSTEM: HELMETS, MODELS AGV CX 5000, KR 2000, CX 2000.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 1,138 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Cosmopolitan HelmetBuilt from Feb 1, 1982 to Feb 1, 1984
Who is recalling it?
- Made by COSMOPOLITAN MOTORS, INC..
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.