So my brother totalled himself today, misjudging a whip on one on the tabletops on DH3 over at Grenoside. He’s had the works – MRI brain scans, cervical scans, thoracic scans to look for internal bleeding – and tomorrow he’s going in for surgery on his knee.
Anyway, to cheer him up I’m going to buy him a new helmet (as he wrecked his brand new one).
The thing is, he has a love for Troy Lees – however being an ex Nationals racer and a bit of freeride monkey – he has a habit of doing things that will give you as big of an injury as racing MX would.
So – my choices are
a Troy Lee D3 Carbon to make him happy?
a Leatt DBX 6.0 2017 – good cross between safety and size?
or a 6D ATB-1 or the MX ATR-1? These are bigger helmets that have elastomers sandwiched between two layers of EPS…that in a way emulates how the brain is suspended in the skull, the crashes where MX riders have walked away..when wearing the moto version are pretty mental?
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-jMz-hDgz0[/video]
I’m thinking to err on the side of safety and get him the 6D – as this isn’t the first head injury he’s had – and he has a wife and child.