There was recently a consumer test of bicycle helmets in Denmark, performed by The Danish Consumer Council in their magazine Tænk (Think) . The test involved 15 different skater-style helmets. Two of the helmets failed in the test. One was Etto's "Psycho Street" and the other was Nutcase Helmet's "Street" model. The one with the very appropriate DANGER text on it. (The perfect text, by the way, to describe the helmet industry's eagerness to portray cycling as more dangerous as it is in the interest of profit.) Of the two helmets that flopped, Etto immediately called back the helmets in question and offer refunds to consumers. Nutcase Helmets, on the other hand, refused to react to the results of the test. They replied that their helmets met the demands in "their own tests". The head of the consumer tests, Niels Ebbe Jacobsen, says, " Nutcase is putting cyclists' safety on the line when they choose to keep their helmets on ...
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