The story behind Troy Lee Designs A3 Helmet – The Stikman Interview

March 21, 2021
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Last week Troy Lee Designs launched its new open face trail helmet complete with impressive list of features. Andi has had one on his head for a few weeks now and you can get his first impression thoughts right here..

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This week Chipps caught up with the man behind the design, Craig Glaspell AKA Stikman. There’s certainly more going on with helmet technology these days than at least we realised as you will come to learn in this fascinating podcast episode.

Stikman in action!

We can promise you that in the next 30 minutes you will learn a great deal about helmet design, production delays, global distribution and Troy Lee himself.

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