I disagree. I'm a daily bike rider and I'm all for safer helmets. However I do need to be able to breath and not overheat. It's the realities of my commute that sometimes it's over 100F, like it was last week here.
I think there's a market for safer helmets and I own a bike helmet made to SNELL standards (for bike helmets not road). I just checked, I have a Specialized helmet with a Snell sticker inside that says "B90A". I'd buy a safer helmet, but I'm not willing to buy a full face helmet to offset the rare case of falling on my chin. Nor am I willing to pay 3-6x the price for some marketing campaign which claims that peak rotational acceleration is a major menace for bicyclists.
Sure Snell motorcycle helmets are more durable than bike helmets, but they have similar styrofoam of a similar thickness for lowering the peak acceleration. Sure my bike helmet would likely shatter into a million pieces in a major accident at 100 mph, but I don't bike at 100 mph.
I think there's a market for safer helmets and I own a bike helmet made to SNELL standards (for bike helmets not road). I just checked, I have a Specialized helmet with a Snell sticker inside that says "B90A". I'd buy a safer helmet, but I'm not willing to buy a full face helmet to offset the rare case of falling on my chin. Nor am I willing to pay 3-6x the price for some marketing campaign which claims that peak rotational acceleration is a major menace for bicyclists.
Sure Snell motorcycle helmets are more durable than bike helmets, but they have similar styrofoam of a similar thickness for lowering the peak acceleration. Sure my bike helmet would likely shatter into a million pieces in a major accident at 100 mph, but I don't bike at 100 mph.