TheIronWarrior
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For clarity, you are telling me that the helmet I have, which has both DOT and ECE labels (actual ECE label sewed in to the strap padding, not just the sticker on back) is perhaps NOT ECE rated? I feel like major manufacturers would NOT label an item with a certification that did not apply to that particular item, but maybe I'm missing something. I imagine there would be legal implications for affixing a label claiming a certification that the item has not met, and a reputable company that dealt with both certifications would be unlikely to mess around with that.For helmets, I don't give a fig for ECE stickers BECAUSE I live in the USA. The helmets marketed here are rarely to never actually the same thing as what's marketed in Europe (ask any or all of the helmet manufacturers about that, including Arai, Bell, and Shoei), and there's neither compliance nor enforcement testing by ECE authorities here. So, that makes that sticker worth even less to me than the DOT sticker, because at least DOT does _some_ tiny amount of compliance testing. That's also why, to my chagrin, I can't really pay much attention to SHARP's testing. They do great work, but the helmets they test are physically different designs than what's available to me in the USA.
I would agree that you could have two "sub-versions" of a "HelmetManufacturer ModelName" helmet, one for sale under DOT and one under ECE, but in that case I would expect the DOT helmet to NOT have the ECE tag on it, and vice versa.