General recommended advice for drops is. Replace it. If you are making a living wage in the US, you already make way too much to risk your head over saving $400 at worst? $500?
How many times a season do you typically replace your helmet? Twice? Ten times?General recommended advice for drops is. Replace it. If you are making a living wage in the US, you already make way too much to risk your head over saving $400 at worst? $500?
So you drop your helmet on the pavement wrestling it out of the boot bag first thing in the morning. Do you go straight to the resort shop and buy a new one? Or, do you ski in it anyway and start shopping for a deal on a new one? Or... fuggutaboutit? This would make an interesting poll.. What if it was your kid? Same answer ir different answer?General recommended advice for drops is. Replace it. If you are making a living wage in the US, you already make way too much to risk your head over saving $400 at worst? $500?
There are some helmet companies that have used EPP, which is a foam that will rebound back to it's shape versus EPS.
However, a manufacturer is in a tough spot, because infinite hits is impossible; so it is liability quagmire to even promise you that it can even absorb 2 hits even though multi-hit is the entire purpose and difference for using EPP instead of EPS for the foam liner.
POC and PRET i believe used to have EPP helmets, but maybe due to market forces my quick google shows they are using EPS in a lot of the product line.
If you google for EPP helmets maybe you can still find a few models. But if safety is the concern, you're still in the same boat after a crash and it is at your own risk. As there is no method to ensure the helmet is still protective. Nobody can vouch for you the helmet is OK or how much it has degraded; there is no test for this.
The best you can do is the crash warranty program where they'll give you a discount for a replacement (but often just the same or not as good as spring sales).
This season? 1 out of 140+ days. So 0-1 per season? Mostly 0? I've been doing snow stuff for about 12 years, so I'm guessing maybe 6 head hits over 1000+ days. Which is probably already too much, fml, I just realized this. EPP or similar liner like ^ mentioned for multiple impacts (Didn't know a race/comp helmet would use an EPP liner for multiple impact protection).How many times a season do you typically replace your helmet? Twice? Ten times?
New one ASAP with full ownership that I'm risking XYZ while using that helmet. It would be like a pinging todo-list item going on in my head forever until I clicked "add to cart" + "checkout".So you drop your helmet on the pavement wrestling it out of the boot bag first thing in the morning. Do you go straight to the resort shop and buy a new one? Or, do you ski in it anyway and start shopping for a deal on a new one? Or... fuggutaboutit? This would make an interesting poll.. What if it was your kid? Same answer ir different answer?
I'm in the camp that any helmet is better than no helmet. Last time my kid and I got """new""" helmets was when he finally grew bigger than me.. we traded helmets..
Walking through the parking loti in ski boots just might be the most dangerous activity of the ski day.I'm super paranoid about putting my helmet away, on, off onto to whatever during après.