Simpson Racing vs Bell

[Adam]

A few months back I checked into getting a helmet. I only live about an hour and a half away from the Bell plant/office and was in the Rantoul area the other day. I was surprised out how difficult and hesistant they were to sell me a helmet. They said I had to make an appointment to buy a helmet? Anywho, I ended up ordering the helmet from saferacer and it didn't fit very well. I tried a smaller size and that one was too tight. So I ended up going to a local motorcycle shop and they had a snell/dot approved helmet for less than half the price of the automotive helmet! It was the same full face style as the auto helmet, but also had a full face shield that is removable. It looks a lot like that black simpson model listed below. It fit very well and looked good so I went with that one. I think it was $140. Why does Bell and other companies jack the prices up of their auto helmets? I used it at the last two autocrosses and it worked great.