Aldi’s Annual Ski Kit Sale This Week

I have never seen a flashing light at the back of a ski helmet :) Surely, not dangerous, but why?

verbier_ski_bum wrote:I have never seen a flashing light at the back of a ski helmet :) Surely, not dangerous, but why?

VSB, like you, I have no idea. The helmet was a good fit, and met the EN standards. I checked it for manufacturing quality, and was good. So OK, buy.

I normally ski at the back of any group, so I would be the main recipient!

However, Frau Mac is a quiet, stylish, neat skier. Indeed, she had a great instructor .....)
She does not like to draw attention, and that red light will never be switched on!

There is not a linear relationship between price and quality.
I know we live in an era of designer bull*** which has distorted the concept of price and quality out of all sensible understanding.

I still have an Aldi ski jacket that I bought for my first ever ski trip and has outlived my others in spite of being the one I use to wrap up my ski's. The sallos didn't fair as well but that was more to do with my daughter mis-timing a hockey stick stop, wiping out and putting her ski through the gusset narrowly avoiding performing a slopeside vasectomy. (ironic that she's about to do her finals at med school this winter)

I have a pair of their ski mitts which comfortably perform similarly to my other vastly more expensive pair of a well known brand. (In fact I lent them to a friend when we were sking in the 3V's at -20 who was stunned to find out that a £5 Aldi pair were better than his £50 gloves)

Helmet protection is a moot point- you can measure deformity and penetration but it's much harder to measure brain injury. No trial will permit randomised double blind trials of skiing volunteers into trees with and without helmets so it gets tricky to assess how much (if any) brain protection they provide other than by statistical analysis and even harder to compare which design is better and which test is best at identifying the best helmets. Does the standard equate to brain protection?
Can of worms!

Well said, Andy. I have a pair of Lidl Sallos, £8.00. waiting to go into my rucsac. Without using them, I can tell that the manufacturing quality is much better than the £200+ a pair I tried on a few years back.

One of my two best ever ski jackets was sourced from TKMax, the other from Wörgl, Austria.

In the original article, helmets were only a small content. Any issue is not with Aldi, but with the EN standard, as in cycling. I am sure that there may be safer helmets than those sold by Aldi, but without clear guidance from the standards authority, you would be guessing.

Also,I normally buy my skis in Austria, but generally claim a series of discounts, not usually available.