Originally Posted by blandin
No engineering background here, so I have to accept your evaluation, but that doesn't explain why their helmets don't meet US safety standards, which I are assume are based on how they respond to force testing. Comments?
I'm not realy familiar with the why's and wherefores of why the Catlike helmets don't pass the US standards. I think the origional Kompact helmet had a retention issue which was fixed with the Kompact Pro model.
Sometimes however its probably more a jurisdictional issue rather than anything serious. The Giro helmet that Lance wore which you guys all love doesn't pass the Australian standards however Catlike helmets do. I suspect management at Catlike took a dislike to the US standards people and simply decided not to resubmit thier helmets for evaluation. Who knows realy?
My two bobs worth was that the Catlike helmets had many desirable design features and the one feature I didn't like on the Kompact, the pointy bits at the back were removed for the Whisper design which looks better to me.
Regards, Anthony