kingsimon2000

PLease let there be a helmet out there that I can pop on my head with out my wife creasing up in tears of mocking laughter. My head just looks so wrong with my lid.. it perches it's self on top and looks as if it was sized for small children ( note it does technically fit ).

So the big is What out there has the thinnest walls so it doesn't look like I have a bunch of bananas stuck on my bonce.

Iv'e just had a look to see what model mine is and it's a ~Giro 2005 54/61 258grams.


Big thanks if anyone suffering from the same mismatched head to hat ratio with any helmet choices.


All the best


Simon

RacerOne

Don't worry about it, everybody's head looks stupid in a helmet.

peterot

Pics are necessary for useful advice.

subframe

All helmets look like that 99% of the time. I have one fortunate friend whose head makes any helmet he puts on look as low-profile as a hairnet. Other than that we all are mushroom-heads when we ride.

calyth

I was going to say you need a new wife (j/k of course)
What's more important? Looking good? or keeping that noggin alright in case bad things happen?

I have a big head, and when I wear my red helmet, I look like an idiot. Don't worry about it.

Ratfish

It's difficult for me to visualize this without a pic.

Pinyon

Helmets look less stupid than splattered brain-matter on the road to me.

Busta Quad

Maybe you need a new wife.

Andy-JCL-

Thats just the way things are in life. My life fits me, I live, I don't go around killing myself hoping to get another life and expect a really cool lifestyle and be rich. Wait wha?... New wife or new cool wack helmet. If the cookie tastes good, eat it, don't just look at it.

Ratfish

I will admit that I had a Bell Alchera that made me look like I had a giant alien head. One time I was crossing the street and some kids pointed at me and then made giant head gestures and laughed. That's when I got a Sweep-R or whatever it's called and it looks a lot cooler but the ventilation is much, much worse.

This is the price of being stylish.

pdedes

check out the MET helmets (i got my estro at chainreactioncycles.com) they're a bit less volume for size than comparable helmets. and look killer too.

TRaffic Jammer

Stuart Mackenzie: Look at the size of that boy's heed.
Tony Giardino: Shhh!
Stuart Mackenzie: I'm not kidding, it's like an orange on a toothpick.
Tony Giardino: Shhh, you're going to give the boy a complex.
Stuart Mackenzie: Well, that's a huge noggin. That's a virtual planetoid.
Tony Giardino: Shh!
Stuart Mackenzie: Has it's own weather system.
Tony Giardino: Sh, sh, shh.
Stuart Mackenzie: HEAD! MOVE!
Stuart Mackenzie: I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Now that was offside, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.

Quijibo187

If you can't look good doing it, don't do it at all.

sell the bike and take up lawn bowling.



(nobody looks good in a helmet)

cyclezealot

Looks are not important. What is important is fit..Is it snug..I'd not worry about looks. Probably a big head would look even funnier in a 'bike cap.' And bike caps don't protect the noggin from falls.

cyclezealot

Our club lid it yellow, red. We'd not look like a member of the team if we wore another ..

ZXiMan

Speak for yourselk! hehe... I'm just kidding.

Giro and Bell helmets look big on me too, then I tried a medium Specialized S-Works helment and it looks alot better.

kingsimon2000

cheers guys.. I will get the wife ( Jo King ) to snap me with and without helmet for your amusement.

In the uk so need to got to bed..


Cheers Simon

lukewall

A helmet beats the screws and plates on my head because of a cranium fracture look. Or worse, the holes the doctor drilled into my head to alleviate the pressure in my skull from a concussion look.

I use a Ghisallo, a little mushroom-ish but not too bad. If you've got the cash to blow and it fits ok go for the Atmos. I just think the white Atmos looks sweet.

McTufferton

I've got the opposite look going on... small head, HUGE helmet. Mushroom head for sure.

I'm rockin' the Bell Alchera that was referenced above. I don't have $150+ for an atmos or ionos.

doomkin

big heads are simply exponentially ugly.

a big head requires a big helmet which is far uglier than a smaller helmet. where a smaller helmet is more streamlined and natural looking a bigger helmet causes enhanced mushroom-like visual similarities. even the most attractive helmet (sworks, volt, atmos, sweep, etc) only gets uglier the bigger it is.

deadly downtube

all cyclists wearing helmets and spandex look stupid... you have to be racing in europe to look cool.

tntyz

My helmet makes my head look big. I'm trying to tansfer that technology to my wife's bra.

Thirstyman

useless thread with out pics

Lucky07

Ride faster. That's the only way you're going to look cooler in a bike helmet (maybe).

jdott

ZXiMan's experience is mine as well - I looked at every helmet at every shop for like a 20 mile radius and settled on a Specialized helmet. Their whole line actually looks better than anything Bell or Giro make - at least on my melon.