Originally Posted by exercion

I am kinda surprised no one has mentioned the Virginia Tech ratings. If you search for Virginia Tech helmets you should get a link to a fairly impressive site which rates helmets on performance. You can see how they test them, and look at different models. They have list prices and performance scores so you can decide which ones interest you the most. Neither price, nor brand correlate into protection, some lower priced helmets performed better in uniform testing than highr priced ones. When I was looking for a new one a few years ago, the 2nd best helmet in their test was one of the lowest priced, so that's what I bought.