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Originally Posted by alantf

?????????? Over here there's no snell or dot. Everything from helmets to tea strainers has to have the CE mark, to show it's been manufactured to European Union standards. That means that every helmet, regardless of price has to be made to minimum standards. Of course, the higher priced ones may be different, but even the cheapest has to meet the required standard. Mine's an Airoh. You can't get them in America, because of the Snell/Dot thing, but they're still a good helmet, sold in all the EU countries, that appears to do its job efficiently.

Hi, yeah from what I've read there's a bit of a dust up between Snell and CE but the gist of it is that the CE standards are very good if not better than Snell, and their testing is even more rigorous. Apparently there are a lot of very highly regarded CE helmets, but we don't have access to them and as far as I know aren't even allowed to use them because they don't have the DOT sticker on them.

Frankly, I don't see why we can't slap a DOT sticker on them ourselves if we think they'd easily pass the testing. That's what the manufacturers do.