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Originally Posted by rockNroll
Yes, you can assume a minimum level with a given cert. How far beyond that minimum would you like your helmet to be? It's not only bells n whistles, kiddies.
"Snell and DOT standards are baselines, not objectives. The starting point, not the goal." <-Arai helmets
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The problem is that there is no quantifiable proof that there is a "beyond" the minimum. You say it's not just bells and whistles. Can you offer us what more there is? It's like you asking me what color my bike is and I say "Well, it's not black." You're suggesting that there are helmets out there that offer more/better protection than the low-cost certified helmets, but have yet to give us one example. Also, one would think that if there were, indeed, different levels of protection offered by helmet manufacturers, that they would include that in their marketing to up-sell their higher priced helmets.