Perfect, Yakkay has got you covered. Their Smart Two helmet can be purchased with an array of stylish covers. Certified in accordance with both European and American safety standards, these Danish-designed helmets were created with fashion in mind. Not only can you pick a helmet more aligned with your personal style, you can also change it up.
With their custo- designed helmet covers, you can color-coordinate with every outfit. The Torch Apparel T2 most closely resembles a ski helmet but these are the bike helmets of the future. They come with built in LED lights in the front and back. The spotlight will literally be on you. There you have it, 11 brands that vary in shape, purpose and style. And best of all they will all keep your noggin intact. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Contents show. Things to consider when choosing a bike helmet Shape. Safety standards. Cycling helmets Schwinn Traveler. Bell Stratus. Same for you with a backwards bike helmet, which is just… so upsetting. These measurements are almost always in centimeters, so a metric tape measure will do the trick. Not too small tight and hurts to wear and not too big wiggles everywhere.
Once your helmet is dialed in, sort out your straps. Tighten the chin strap so you can fit two fingers underneath. So here are some tips. The size label and the fit dial if there is one will be located in the back.
Still stumped? David Rogers, founder of the cycling blog OurBikeGuide. There are usually two adjustment points on each side of the strap: one on the lower half that makes the strap looser or more snug against your jaw and one to adjust how the top, V-shaped section of the strap fits around your ears which we'll get to later.
Use the lower adjusters to take up any slack in the strap. The strap doesn't need to be cinched super tight against your skin. In fact, it's OK if it dangles in the breeze a little bit.
Just be sure there's no more than a finger's space between the strap and your skin. The strap should feel slightly snug against your jaw when you open your mouth. Next, tighten the helmet to fit your head. Most bike helmets have a knob on the back that makes the helmet tighter or looser on your head.
With one hand holding the helmet in place—hopefully you're still in front of a mirror, because visual feedback helps here—reach back with your free hand and twist the adjustment knob. When you twist it, usually clockwise, you'll feel the helmet tighten slightly.
If your helmet doesn't have a knob, it should have some other mechanism for adjusting the head circumference. Keep going until the helmet is tight on your head but still comfortable. You don't want it move at all when you shake your head from side to side.
And yes, you'll usually need to loosen that knob to get the helmet off—another signal that you've arrived at a proper fit. Lastly, let's go back to the strap. Find those upper adjustment points—the plastic pieces where the strap turns into a V and runs up either side of your ears. Slide the plastic adjuster up or down so that the point of the V sits just below your earlobes. The Smith Portal has the same fine-tuned fit of our top pick, and the attractive matte exterior is built to take abuse.
Although the Smith Portal lacks the Snell certification and established track record of the Echelon, the Portal won testers over with its attractive matte monochrome finish and excellent fit. It has the legally required CPSC certification. It feels low and secure on the head without the extra bulk of a big piece of foam on the back. There is no exposed EPS foam on the exterior—not even on the underside—an upgrade in quality that should protect it from abuse.
The least expensive helmet we found that still meets every single criteria for fit, form, and safety. Atypical of this price range but standard among costlier helmets, such as our other picks , the Solstice is made through in-mold construction.
This means the plastic shell is fused to the protective foam liner, instead of taped or glued, resulting in a stronger helmet. In addition, Bontrager offers one of the best crash replacement policies we found: The company will replace your helmet for free if you hit your head while wearing it up to a year after purchase.
We spoke with many helmet-industry experts for this guide, including leading designers and lab technicians who have been crash testing for years.
And we wanted to learn about helmet aesthetics, too. If everyone keeps complaining that they feel stupid in a helmet, must we keep making helmets in ridiculous shapes? So we talked to John Larkin, the president of Machine Language. Larkin is an industrial designer, and his specialty is bike helmets. The EcoHelmet is a foldable helmet made of paper—yes, paper. Via email, I interviewed Bjork Fjellstad, the managing director at Sweet Protection , a Norway-based performance brand.
They are advocates for MIPS, a new helmet safety tech. He patiently answered our questions about tiny differences in crash testing procedures. Whether or not you want to wear a bike helmet is pretty much up to you.
One of those times, I landed head first on the squared-off edge of a concrete curb. My helmet likely saved my life. This is a guide for commuters—people who bike for utility and transportation. Our picks also work well for casual recreational road cyclists since the same features that make a great commuter helmet great ventilation and safety features, in particular make for a great road helmet as well.
Racers chasing podium spots, however, would likely prefer a lighter, more expensive design than any of our picks can offer. Ever since Greg Lemond won the Tour de France in wearing a Giro Aerohead , the average cyclist has not been able to escape the aerodynamic design of racing helmets meant to decrease wind resistance. Meanwhile, some cyclists adopted skateboard helmets, but these were and remain an imperfect compromise. Skate helmets are multi-impact helmets, designed to let you clobber yourself over and over again at low force.
Bike helmets, however, are intended to be single use only. The ABS plastic shells of those helmets are heavy, and the unvented silhouettes induce sweat. But now the road helmet and the skate helmet are merging into something resembling the best option for a street commuter—a rounded, vented hybrid. Indeed, all the updated helmets we looked at had done away with those tails and rounded out the backs of their designs.
We read through their test protocols and compared each, point by point. It took days. We read up on the latest findings from another lab at Virginia Tech , which is pioneering a way to test both linear and rotational forces in helmets very dramatic news in the world of cycling helmets. Finally, we consulted helmets. After all that research, we came up with the criteria each helmet we decided to test had to meet:.
Foam and fabric on the outside of a helmet can also present sliding problems. The best way to test a bike helmet is to use it. For our second iteration of this piece, I called in 10 new helmets, including 4 new models, and took them out for rides with a panel of 6 in my hometown, Pittsburgh. For our update, we looked at two helmets from Lumos, which have integrated lights and turn signals; we also looked at the MIPS version of our top pick.
No other brand that makes helmets for the US market has their products certified to both standards. But it does offer a heightened level of quality control, performed by experts in their field, whose research is not funded by helmet companies.
For this reason, we only tested helmets that have adjustable retention systems. Unlike other helmets that cost the same, the Echelon fit system wraps all the way around your head, one of only two in our test pool to do so. All the others attach at the temples.
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