Anybody heard of a "caberg classico" helmet?- any good? would it be accepted at a trackday?
they're £34 at aldi right now
Bob
nope, never heard of em and not an item to scrimp on!!
Caberg is a good brand - but my 'Justissimo' cost a hell of a lot more than £34!
LINKY
David
[Edited on 24/3/06 by David Jenkins]
The classico usually retails around £50
The Justissimo you can get for about £130
Why not scrimp. My helmet was £100 ish and I think thats scrimping and I would hapily buy a £30 or £50 helmet for occasional passenger use as theres
next to no chance of falling off a kit car in the same way as falling off a bike and having your head bouncing off the tarmac. A helmet for a kit car
is solely to protect your head from pidgeons, wasps, stone & other airbourne matter not to protect you brain in the event of you falling off.
If you roll it, thats another matter but roll bars/cage should be considered well before a helmet if your worried about rolling it.
Just my tuppence worth.
Fair comment - but the original question was whether such a helmet would be allowed at a track day. I don't know the answer to that one! 
All I can say is that the manuf. is legitimate and well-known, so it isn't something that Aldi has imported from Outer mongolia...
[Edited on 24/3/06 by David Jenkins]
They are ECE-2205 whatever that means
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Do Aldi allow you to try them on in the shop to get the right size? If not it's a bit of a lottery since fit is the most important thing.
At worse they will be fine for keeping bugs out of your eyes I suppose.
My nitro helmet has ECER22-05 on it. Also has gold British Motorcycle Sport badge which i have been told is what they look for. Im no expert though
and have been told some track days days dont look that far as long as you have a helmet.
I doubt i could use mine for racing though.
Can any track day regulars cofirm?
Ive yet too see an helmet inspected/looked at at any track day, not too say they don't just never experienced it myself.
Let me add (again) that ECE badged helmets are no use if you think you might get involved in any sort of motorsport.
Get a BS badged lid and try it before you buy it..
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Originally posted by zilspeed
Let me add (again) that ECE badged helmets are no use if you think you might get involved in any sort of motorsport.
Get a BS badged lid and try it before you buy it..
the helmets have teh gold bike sticker on them. I know cause i've got one to keep the flys out of my eyes!
No intention of using it for proper motorsport.
Yeah, aldi do let you try them on. I bought two (medium and large) spent time last night and this morning trying them on and returned the medium.
The comment about how much is your head worth is definately worth stating here. More expensive helmets will be better overall when all factors are
considered (weight, lifetime, safety, etc etc etc)
This is a cheap stone protector helmet that luckily has passed a few levels of legislation so i know its not complete rubbish.
I think (no evidence) the difference between a bike helmet and car helmet is one is designed to take 1 impact (bike) and the other multiple (car).
People like Mike that know me will know that I am not necessarily the most safety concious person in the world, but I would hate to be in the ironic
situation of wearing a helmet but it not protecting me.
As for the car being safer, that is complete and utter crap. The rollbar is the most dangerous thing about it helmet wise!!! Your helmet can smack off
it a few times even in a fairly limited crash, hence the anvil shapes used to test em for car use.
If/when I take my car on a track day, I'll wear the same helmet and neck brace that I use in my racer, I won't be driving like I'm on
the way to the Co-op after all.
You sure you don't want to come out in the 7 for a run Mike?!
Some interesting points there boys, thanks!
I bought one anyway, to keep livestock out of my eyes & teeth between SVA and fitting a windscreen.
I had assumed that bikers needed a lid & car drivers didn't really - so the info about multiple skull impacts in shunt & design
differences between car & bike ones is all very interesting!
It's nice & light BTW, I guess the car ones are generally much heavier? It certainly says "for bikes" so you don't get
confused!
cheers
Bob
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Originally posted by MikeR
...I know cause i've got one to keep the flys out of my eyes!
...No intention of using it for proper motorsport.
...This is a cheap stone protector helmet that luckily has passed a few levels of legislation so i know its not complete rubbish...
One big difference between cheap helmets and expensive ones is noise level - the dearer ones often give lower wind noise levels.
David
quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
People like Mike that know me will know that I am not necessarily the most safety concious person in the world, but I would hate to be in the ironic situation of wearing a helmet but it not protecting me.
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If/when I take my car on a track day, I'll wear the same helmet and neck brace that I use in my racer, I won't be driving like I'm on the way to the Co-op after all.
You sure you don't want to come out in the 7 for a run Mike?!
LOL!
makes me sound like a loonatic!
Seriously I always drive with a HUGE amount of safety reserve on the road, particularly with people in the car with me. Prior to my big accident at 18
I drove like a prat, in the 10 years since then I may drive briskly but always safely.
Back to the point though, if I am spending money on a lid, I want it to do something should something awful happen!
my local bike shop has a helmet on the counter labelled 'ebay special'! Doesnt make you confident. Its only £29!
Is not the level of testing BS which is more important if 2 helmets have the same standard how can one be less safe regardless of cost?
All I know is that the ECE standard is not recognised at all by the RACMSA. I am also told (pinch of salt time) that the ECE testing is not an
external independent testing regime like the
BS test is.
When I bought my helmet, I knew I would want to do some low level motorsport. The ECE helmet would not have been accepted. I've seen it
happening.
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Originally posted by Surrey Dave
Is not the level of testing BS which is more important if 2 helmets have the same standard how can one be less safe regardless of cost?
That could be true but I cant recall any helmets advertised with claims of how far they exceed the testing criteria, they would just make it pass the
next grading up and charge a premium for it.
helmet manufacturers are after a profit so why make a helmet that is twice as good as it needs to be?
reputation.
make it twice as good (for 10% more) and charge 50% more for it!
standard business practice. 
why have you got a cheap helmet Mike!!!????
ahhh, forgot, you'll be ok, you're not coming in my 7!! LOL!
Helmet manufacturers are the same as clothes manufacturers to a great extent. You pay for the label....... 
Phil