Octet
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£50 is an adequate amount to spend on a helmet IMO.
They all need to pass safety ratings, and the only thing you are paying for in a more expensive helmet is a more aerodynamic design etc.
Helmet split and dented, jersey holed, arm gashed, groin strained, yes i've come off
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£50 is an adequate amount to spend on a helmet IMO.
They all need to pass safety ratings, and the only thing you are paying for in a more expensive helmet is a more aerodynamic design etc.
Rather fewer than will be buying Lidl £9.99 jobbies this weekend?
Aren't they certified to the same level or thereabouts?
Octet
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To some extent the foam should compress but by splitting it reduces a larger amount of the force. The outer shell should remain intact to hold it on the head, providing it is designed correctly.
If you drop a glass, dropping it onto the floor it shall smash. Dropping it onto something spongy and it shall slow it down, by dropping it into something that compresses and cracks (like a helmet) you slow it down and remove the force.
Good article here as well in case anyone wants it:
http://www.bhsi.org/general.htm
I believe so, I would spend a bit more then £10 personally. My newest helmet was £25 but in theory they should protect equally as well. You do pay for more comfort as well though.
black'n'yellow
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like I said - there's always one that doesn't get it. The fact that you are comparing cycle helmets to a pair of safety boots just reinforces the point.
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Who the heck goes through rubbish looking for freebies
Octet
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Who the heck goes through rubbish looking for freebies
Archeologists?
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I think in the first instance this is a logical assumption to make Norm. I'm not saying its true or not as I don't know, but I feel its reasonable for somebody to assume a helmet breaking on impact means it absorbed that impact and therefore was a benefit in this fall/bang.
Apologies, I had previously in the post say "generally". It is unusual for a bike helmet or a PPE-certified helmet to split. And I wonder whether you should change your avatar if both sorts have split when you've been wearing them.
I haven't had a chance to read the link yet, but I'm not sure about that. Without the outer skin, polystyrene breaks with very little force.
Sadly not. Which? this month rated the Met Camaleonte Executive adult helmet (£50) as a don't buy as they "judged it to have failed the European Standard". Met disputes the results and far from recalling the helmet, I believe that it's still on sale.
The Cratoni C-Air (£20) and the B'Twin Kiddy One (£8!!!) are also rated as Don't Buys as they failed Which?'s tests, even though they did judge them to have passed the European Standard.
I wasn't comparing the two, I was contrasting the two, but then you wouldn't understand that.
Superficially, yes, but the tests that I've seen (and not having read Octet's link yet) suggest that a cycle helmet which snaps can do so without taking much of the impact.
Octet
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Indeed, but Which? felt that the Met helmet failed the test and rated it as a "Don't Buy".
Are these independently tested or self certified?
Octet
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Which what? As far as I am aware, all helmets sold in the UK have to pass either one of those?
Admittedly, a helmet may not withstand the properties it was tested for 'in the field' but it should of been tested.
Octet
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I am guessing they have to be independently tested although I don't fully know.
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you would hope so! cannot imagine there wouldn't be some form of independent assessment or check
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