Quote Originally Posted by WR6133 View Post
With lids passing a set standard I'd be inclined to believe cheap should be ok. I hit the ground a couple months back in a novelty lid (passed no standards) and had no worse than a lump on my head so I think proper lids must be fairly over-engineered.
If there's one bit of kit more important than the bike it's the helmet, cheap is rubbish, end of.

If Arai, Shoei, schuberth etc spend 100s of thousands on developing, testing and proving their helmets are safest as well as the top racers wearing them for the track surely you can see it's got to perform better whatever standards the cheap lids might scape through.

Your decision obviously