Bicycle helmets

[Boycey]

3 years max, why bother wearing a piece of safety equipment that makes you look silly and is unlikely to be effective?

 

[gentlegreen]

To be perfectly honest I don't take helmets seriously where high-speed impacts is concerned - it's more to avoid painful bumps - so far the only bumps I've been protected from has been from low doorways.

In fact it's more of a hat.

I got a bit serious a while back when I saw the Bell Metro with its rain bonnets etc, but they didn't do it in my size.

 

[mauvais]

So how long do you think you should keep a helmet before replacing it?

Not sure. In summer I have to regularly wash it to stop it stinking and that makes the padding fall to bits after about a year, so I replace mine then. It takes a bit of a beating over time, from bumping into low bits of trees etc, but I never think it's enough to compromise it. Maybe it is.

If neither of those things happened, I'd replace it maybe every three years.

 

[Maggot]

Well, I meant that the helmet was 64cm but I just measured my head (admittedly with a metal tape measure) and it says 64cm.

I am such a freak. Me and Gentlegreen should join a circus.

I've just realised that 64cm is the circumference of your head. I thought it was the diameter!

 

[Psychonaut]

TSG Evolution

Ive got a 'comfy' XC type too, but ive not worn it since getting ^ a 'proper' helmet.

 

[tommers]

Ive got a 'comfy' XC type too, but ive not worn it since getting ^ a 'proper' helmet.

do you wear that when you're skating?

 

[tommers]

I've just realised that 64cm is the circumference of your head. I thought it was the diameter!

Now that WOULD be freaky.

 

[Psychonaut]

do you wear that when you're skating?

no, i use it for dangerous extremist free-ride biking - like being in close proximity to 40mph steel boxes

Mind you, i have started getting respect/compliments from young children