Expensive Bike Helmets

[Punkawallah]

A bit arbitrary, though. Audax, eroica, no helmet requirement in UK. No doubt there are others. Of course you can, if you want to.

Hence ‘AFAIK’.

 

[gcogger]

Maybe I've got it wrong here, someone please correct me if I have.

Don't ALL cycling helmets, irrespective of price point, given the job they may have to do, go through stringent testing and have to have some kind of kite mark stating that they are up to said job if called upon?

If so, then a £10 helmet should offer the exact same level of safety factor as a £300 helmet???

If that is the case then choice of helmet is purely for aesthetics, and not safety. The safety aspect is a given, or should be.

As silva mentioned earlier, the safety standards are a minimum level to achieve, but it is perfectly possible to provide increased protection beyond that. Just because all helmets meet a certain minimum standard does not mean they are all the same.
Whether the level of protection correlates with price is a different question, of course!