Coolest looking bike helmets?!
08-22-14 | 08:20 AM
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08-22-14 | 08:45 AM
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I also think my new utility helmet is pretty damn cool looking:
It's a Torch T1 with integrated head and taillights. Not great for killer road rides, but sweet for shooting around town.
It's a Torch T1 with integrated head and taillights. Not great for killer road rides, but sweet for shooting around town.
08-22-14 | 08:47 AM
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08-22-14 | 10:01 AM
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08-22-14 | 10:24 AM
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08-22-14 | 10:35 AM
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08-22-14 | 10:43 AM
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08-22-14 | 03:12 PM
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Am I the only person who went...."Why would I want a Stormtrooper replica helmet. It even comes with a frosted visor so you can't see."
08-22-14 | 03:51 PM
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08-22-14 | 05:37 PM
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The designers did a tight job integrating both those lights into the helmet. How is the heat? It doesn't look like it has many vents, plus the heat generated by the LED's looks like it goes into the head, however little heat it is.
08-22-14 | 06:27 PM
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Gawd, I sat here wondering for at least 30 seconds how someone is supposed to see out of the frosted vent, until i scrolled down to the last pic.
The designers did a tight job integrating both those lights into the helmet. How is the heat? It doesn't look like it has many vents, plus the heat generated by the LED's looks like it goes into the head, however little heat it is.
The designers did a tight job integrating both those lights into the helmet. How is the heat? It doesn't look like it has many vents, plus the heat generated by the LED's looks like it goes into the head, however little heat it is.
As for the cooling/heat issue, I haven't worn the thing yet (I just ordered it), so no first hand feedback, but I'm not too worried about it since most of my urban trips, even if I go hard and get hot, are short, so I should be able to bear it. But no, I don't expect it to be particularly cool, though it is supposed to have internal channeling to let the air flow, and I keep my hair very short! They're low output LEDs so I think the heat will be negligible, particularly, again, for the anticipated shortness of the typical use.
Anyway, if it turns out to be uncomfortably hot, I have other helmets for the hotter days. I'm actually hoping it provides a little more warmth for winter rides when compared to one of my really vented 'race' type helmets, which always necessitate wearing a skullcap underneath and/or a rain cover on the helmet, which does get blinkin' hot.
08-22-14 | 06:47 PM
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MOD NOTE: I deleted a few posts that were starting to take this thread into the need/benefit of wearing a helmet. All threads that go that route have to be merged into the Helmet Thread in A&S. Let's keep this thread about aesthetics, please.
08-22-14 | 08:54 PM
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I know not everyone wants to look roaderrific, but after a period of everything getter lighter, vent-ier, and generally more wearable, I'm now seeing a mystifying trend toward the skate helmet style, with a few cursory vent holes smaller than a dime in the shell. Lord, I thought that went the way of the insanely heavy, hot kiwi helmet I wore on an SHP tour in 1991, not that it was somehow the new thing the kids were doing 
08-22-14 | 09:02 PM
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I know not everyone wants to look roaderrific, but after a period of everything getter lighter, vent-ier, and generally more wearable, I'm now seeing a mystifying trend toward the skate helmet style, with a few cursory vent holes smaller than a dime in the shell. Lord, I thought that went the way of the insanely heavy, hot kiwi helmet I wore on an SHP tour in 1991, not that it was somehow the new thing the kids were doing
These new skate type helmets can be much better, but anyway more styles are better to suit varying use conditions. A helmet for a 2 mile commute doesn't need to do what a helmet for a 55mi B group does, and vice versa. A vintage Kiwi for polar expeditions, perhaps?
08-22-14 | 11:35 PM
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08-23-14 | 12:51 AM
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Especially on hot days. It's cooler with the Prevail than with nothing. Something to be said for the insulating properties of styrofoam, not to mention directed airflow over the ol' melon.