When I bought my bike back in Feb, some extras came with it. A Topeak Explorer rear rack, Topeak basket for the rack, small blinkie taillight & headlight, a near-new great working RavX floor pump w/built-in gauge & dual head- and a Giro Encinal helmet, that seems to fit me just fine. It's even blue & black, colormatches the bike well,if you care about that sort of thing(I don't ). But: *BOY*, does it look dorky! Like most bike helmets these days, it has that Woody Woodpecker/Pteranodon rear crest on it.

Looking around on the internet, I discovered that the Giro Encinal, was *not* a ~$10 WalMart cheapie as I first guessed, but a (probably pretty decent) helmet that sold for ~$40-$50, maybe even more at a bike shop. But *Wow*, it still looks dorky- as does every other bike helmet I've seen so far.

The closest things I've seen to not-completely-dorky-looking are those that look similar to a regular hard hat, say something like the Bell Citi. But even those look kinda dorky. Still, if I was gonna buy another bike helmet, a new 2008 model Bell Citi('08 to get the rear blinkie-light mounting strap) in dorky-looking bright "Safety Yellow", would probably be it. I used to wear a hard-hat years ago, & lots of people around here still wear hard hats- and yellow is a fairly popular color for 'em.

But you want a cool looking bike helmet? Well, I wish you luck!