Originally Posted by slvoid
I thought I'd never see the day when you have the tinest bit positive to say about helmets but thank god for THAT. Cause when it's 90-100 degrees and I'm pushing at 85%+ of my MHR in the sun, I'd suffer heat stroke pretty quickly without any vents. So thank god the helmet institute recommends hyper-vented helmets for people like me who can't live without the added ventilation.
You might want to re-think what you have posted here.
I gave the link for the full article of which I posted the first paragraph. They were the BHSI words.
Since we believe that rounder shells and less dense foam are virtues in a crash, we don't recommend hyper-vented helmets unless you can't live without the added ventilation.
I think it was a positive comment on the potential safety of vented helmets because the BHSI has some serious reservations about helmets that are excessively vented.
I'd also agree with chicharron when he re-enforced nick burns by saying "big emphasis on marketing". I am in agreement with the BHSI about selling more helmets to repeat buyers by manafacturers is marketing as well. The BHSI where on page
http://www.helmets.org/replace.htm
Most manufacturers now recommend that helmets be replaced after five years, but some of that may be just marketing. (Bell now recommends every three years, which seems to us too short. They base it partially on updating your helmet technology, but they have not been improving their helmets that much over three year periods, and we consider some of their more recent helmets to be a step backwards, so we would take that with a grain of salt.)
So buy a an approved helmet and keep it for a long time. Don't be fooled by sales ploys and spend more than you have to.