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I'm thinking more like Aerocoach services. They're not selling helmets and if no helmet was faster there'd be more riders leaving their sessions without helmets.
You get regulatory creep, with a lot of people wanting to be compatible with UCI as well as CTT rules - or not realising and thinking that they do.
And don't Aerocoach use a velodrome? Most of those venues insist on you wearing a safety helmet, so other options don't get tested.
I'd heard the same as @mdcc_tester regarding the relative performances, but I can't remember where so cannot link.
At some point there might be an advance in tech that would mean they could make a safety helmet that could have such a good shape that it could compensate for its extra bulk, but there's been no step change to suggest we are there yet.
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I'm thinking more like Aerocoach services. They're not selling helmets and if no helmet was faster there'd be more riders leaving their sessions without helmets.
Frontal area isn't the be all end all of aero. If you can get your head low enough, aero helmet fill the gap behind your skull and probably shift air over your shoulders (but that's Xav's area I'm just guessing).