[Closed] What helmet do you have?

Giro Hex is comfy for me, bit hot though and the finish is awful. Nice colour mind.

Casco Viper (light full face with removable chin guard, very comfy)NOT ME IN PIC BTW[img] [/img]

Urge O Matc (I look like a CHiPs rider in it and its comfy but can get hot) NOT ME IN PIC BTW [img] [/img]

Giro summit or other (bog standard XC lid)

I have a giro phase and a c-originals something or other 😛

What are you going to use it for? All helmets are not created equally.

I wear the mavic syncro and for a full face the kali avatar. . Rad protection and fit

Giro Xen. Very sturdy & well respected for protection & that's what you want, right?

Coolhandluke: C'mon mate - a removable chin guard? Where's the common sense in that design? 🙄

Specialized s-works. I also have a xen, but for most of the year it's too hot.

I use an Endur-O-Matic for XC, dirt jumping and a bit of messing about at the DH track mid XC ride. I've got a Down-O-Matic for when I go out specifically to ride DH.

Giro Hex - Off road
Giro Monza - Road

Giro xar - glad I didn't pay 115 quid for it, fit isn't as good my cheaper giro. I tried loads on including fox flux, Spesh tactic and none of them seemed perfect for my melon. Maybe there's a market for custom fit pisspots

Giro Xen

I bought a urge endure sumutorother yesterday on sale £46 at my lbs the Bycicle doctor because every time go near the fox flux, the peak fall off

Bell Volt.

Urge Enduro Matic. Very comfortable and very light.

Met Kaos

Fox Flux for most things.
661 full-face (can't remember the model off the top of my head) for fuller-on riding.

slainte 🙂 rob

giro xen, so comfy you forget you have it on.

Kask K50. use it for mtb and road. I just prefer helmets without a peak for visual looks

Giro something or the other xc lid

My latest one is an Endura, is red & black and says Royal Mail on the front

It's not comfs, but it didn't cost nuffing.

Met 5th Element.

Kali for me and it's saved my 'bonce' at least once already as this pic can testify, landing head first in some ditch some young scrotes had dug mid trail without warning.

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Oh and before anyone ask that light is on the bike not the helmet it's just resting on the handlebars for the pic.

It's a really nice helmet, light, good ventilation and I'm really surprised by the weight (and the price) of the full face, not that I've got one but if I were to that's what I'd get.

giro Hex, decent lid with resonable ventilation. doesn't look too stupid on my bonce. resonably light.

met Kaos, nice. aquired several last year. gave two away to friends and still have three at home. good ventialtion. light. looks half decent.

giro Remedy full face. fits my head well. not a garish colour. removeable pads and didn't cost the world (thanks crc).

Giro Indicator...cheap helmet that fits my head nicely. I've two now and use them for everything from commuting to 100milers.

Also got a Fox Flux but seems overkill for majority of my riding.

I use a small purple headed warrior.

Fox Flux. They're on offer at Stif and Leisure Lakes now.

Xen for off road duties, use a Rudy Project Sterling on the road.

Another Xen here.

Xen here. Use it for everything.

Currently got a Xen but recently tried on a Kali Chakra, this will be my lid of choice at replacement time.

fourbanger - Member
What are you going to use it for? All helmets are not created equally.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned! I don't do any serious downhilling, but saying that my riding is definitely progressing and I am now riding more aggressive terrain, I can ride coedy-brennin now a lot faster and harder and so feel the need for a more protective lid.

coolhandluke - Member
Casco Viper (light full face with removable chin guard, very comfy)NOT ME IN PIC BTW
Urge O Matc (I look like a CHiPs rider in it and its comfy but can get hot) NOT ME IN PIC BTW
Giro summit or other (bog standard XC lid)
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Thanks coolhandluke, I like the idea of this helmet protecting your chin aswell and it looks pretty cool too. Do you know who sell these and if there's any deals on them anywhere? Cheers all.

Giro Hex and a 661 full face.

A horse riders helmet I bought off ebay for 8 quid then stuck an AlpineStars sticker on. Yeeah. S'how I roll

Kali Chakra. Best I have had yet & inexpensive. Plus not everyone has them, yet...

My main thing when buying a helmet is that it fits, and is comfy. Brand/colour choice is secondary, but I refuse to wear anything that looks like somebody has puked a technicolor meal over it.

Kask K50 or POC Trabec

giro hex

Giro E2, which is about to be binned..

Giro Monza, comfiest lid I've ever had, forget I'm wearing the bloody thing.

I used to like the Trek lids, but they've been replaced/ rebranded as Bontrager now and have a different fit.
Shame, they were very good value.

Spesh S1, pity they stopped making them as it's a perfect fit

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Just looked at the met parachute, they have the same design as the viper. Anyone had experience of these? I like the look of these helmets, quite downhilly, yet more breathable but are they strong enough I wonder?

I use a massive pink one with loads of smegma caked around the tip. It really is deliciously fashionable.

ive had a fox flux for just over a year and its really comfy, only problem is mounting lights is a real pain in the arse!!

Bell Sweep-r
Limar 909
Uvex Boss
Las something or other
An old Xen
Bell Evel Kneivel full face
Bell faction jump helmet

Yes, i have a problem

a sexy hexy here.........

Really like my Fox Striker... Not quite as much coverage as my old Flux but it's much smaller and lighter, and the strap system is better.

Got a Hex as well which I use for commuting but I don't think it's as good a helmet- less comfy and sits "on" my head, the fit's right but the straps need to be tight to keep it settled.

And lastly, some cheap 661 fullface- Strike 2? Hefty and poorly vented but seems decent otherwise.

Uvex XP100 - had this black un until November when a tree/head bump meant it cracked. Fits so well, I went and bought another...

Unlike most helmets the retaining / adjusting band adjusts all round (not just at back) and also adjusts up and down for height. It fits my (big) head like no other helmet - no movement at all without being tight.
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http://www.bikefix.net/2007/11/bikefix-exclusive-review-uvex-xp-100.html

I have a 661 Recon. love it, really venty. (thought they were popular, but obviously not...)

Another happy Hex user here. Saved my head from a nasty crack recently too, so I'll be ordering another one in the next few days as it did such a good job last time.

giro hex, and a giro remedy full face.

Giro hex for me

Kali Chakra light cheap comfy

I mainly use a Fox Flux - like it best because it gives the most rear base-of-skull protection. And it's comfy. And well enough vented.

Also have Specialized Vice (good but visor fixed not flexible and too low), and Giros Hex, Xen (which I find stuffier than the Hex and also heavier) and Phase...........they're all loaned out to visiting friends who can be persuaded to come out on a bike!

dekadanse - Member

I mainly use a Fox Flux - like it best because it gives the most rear base-of-skull protection.

I wrote mine off in a crash at innerleithen- bike fell on me from a decent height and smashed in the bottom of the shell at the rear. Left me with a proper headache... But then I compared it with my Hex, and if I'd been wearing that I think the bike wouldn't have hit the helmet at all, it'd have been straight on my head. Not so good.

They are silly cheap now too.

Giro xen MTB. Giro Atmos Road. their medium sized hat fits my head just right, and they seem like standard hats that you don't look like [i]too[/i] much of a dick in cos everyone has them.

I've an old Spesh Decibel which is ace but is starting to feel it's years. One saved my life a few years back when I landed a 21ft unplanned jump on my head.

I also use a 661 Recon which is excellent too.

21ft unplanned jump? you mean you fell off a cliff?

wore a Fox Flux for a few years - thought it was a good helmet.
then got a Fox Striker which is a GREAT helmet.
fit is fantastic.

those Urge Engorgomatic's look silly and must be boiling

Giro Xar.
Giro carbon Remedy.
Cant see past Giro, my last Zen probably saved my life.

Met Kaos, bloody strong things. I ran one over in the car and it was still in one piece (although broken) so I bought another one.

Just looked at the met parachute, they have the same design as the viper. Anyone had experience of these? I like the look of these helmets, quite downhilly, yet more breathable but are they strong enough I wonder?

There was quite an animated thread about this some time ago involving the appropriate use of the foam padding and the suitability of the helmet for various uses.

I use a Xen and a Parachute- but not at the same time. Xen for normal day to day, Parachute when doing something that I might otherwise wear leg/ elbow pads on. I find both of them to be super comfy and very adjustable.

Ambrose - Member

There was quite an animated thread about this some time ago involving the appropriate use of the foam padding and the suitability of the helmet for various uses.

Aye. Though unfortunately, it was full of raging cowflops.

True

Uvex XP-100 for the last 3 years. Prior to that a Zen for 3 or 4 years. I liked the Zen a lot, but everyone was wearing them so I got the Uvex when the Zen wore out. I do miss the Zen's adjustable visor, but the Uvex is much lighter. The Uvex ratcheting chin strap works well to adjust to the added thickness of a winter helmet liner.

no helmet cos helmets suck.

Fox Flux for off road

Giro Pro Lite for the road

Giro Monza for the commute

Couple of very comfy but old(ish) Giro Xen just sat around.