Trendy Helmets?
 

Im kinda new to fixed gear, im going to start commuting about 4 miles everyday or so to college and I want to get a helmet.

But i cant stand the looks of the super race ready Giro ones and need something with decent vent holes but not like a cheese grater.

Anyone know any retro or neat looking helmets on the market?

thanks

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ghlight=helmet

Helmet choice is very personal. Good Luck.

Protec skate helmet?

see i ride bmx religiously, and i have a protec, but its soooooo hot

there are maybe 5 or 6 vent holes

i cant stand that

flight of the conchords rulz^

http://www.japanese-helmets.com/2500...i-Helmet35.JPG

http://www.realmcollections.com/imag...00386_2767.jpg

http://www.greathistorygifts.com/cat...IR80632A_W.jpg

http://www.samarkandia.com/images/produits/36.jpg

http://www.pickelhauben.net/pickelha...echresfull.jpg

http://www.swordsandarmor.com/images/H5_Maximillian.JPG

most effective when riding in the drops

Yakkay helmets are pretty awesome... too bad I can't find anywhere in the states that sells them :(

www.yakkay.com

base helmet = http://www.yakkay.com/image/cover_basis.gif

plus covers
http://www.yakkay.com/image/cover_knit.gifhttp://www.yakkay.com/image/cover_basic.gifhttp://www.yakkay.com/image/cover_cap.gifhttp://www.yakkay.com/image/cover_sunhat2.gif

that looks ********, especially the bucket hat one.

It does. I'd rather look like I'm wearing a helmet than look like I'm wearing a hat that looks like a helmet.

I can't see how those Yakkays would be any better ventilated than a Pro-tec or other skate-esque helmet - it's only got vents in the top! Cool idea, though - hopefully the next generation will have some more vents, and absurd hat styles (top hat, sombrero, viking helmet, rasta tam w/ prosthetic dreadlocks, etc.

Honestly, any one-color road helmet is probably as 'cool' as you're going to get while still having decent ventilation. Kraynick's (on Penn ave) usually has a good selection of plain, reasonably vented helmets for $20ish, and they protected a pal's head when he got a brick dropped on his head from a 2nd story roof, so you know they work.

if those hat helmets have the low profile that the pictures on the website seem to indicate then it is the winner.

those look 10x better for casual urban/daily riding than anything else

except that they have even worse ventilation than any other helmet. And of course looking like you're trying to hide your ugly helmet in an even uglier hat is much worse than just having an ugly helmet.

Casual riding ya ******, doesn't involve sweating

Where are you from? This time of year I doubt I could walk around the block with a full hat on without sweating.

stuck up in the american AC culture are you?

if you live in a hot climate embrace it, ****ing a half the people there keep the house at 13 if it's hotter than 20 I don't get it, if it's 30 outside 24 inside is very comfortable

it's so bad that they no longer know a hat is good hot weather wear

excuse me, this thread is reserved for real countries only please, thank you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8

American AC culture?

Excuse me, but Australia has an "Institute of Air Conditioning!" :roflmao2:
http://www.airah.org.au/

Or an Australian Air Conditioning Dealer Association
http://www.acda.com.au/

okay kid, you can pretend to be cool and different by enjoying sweating and smelling like gross.

thanks guys, ill rob just pick up a Giro or something at REI

Oh damn. 9 million?
Lots a fat people down by the earth's anus.

I keep the ac at 25-27 unless there is company. A hat can be useful to protect one from the suns radiant heat in some situations but most of the time on a bike it's only going to make you hotter.