When I were a lad, there was no need for cycle helmets. So little need that they didn't actually exist - or at least I never saw one. Boys were boys and bike crashes were a thing to be proud of. Gravel in the knee, the smell of TCP and a scab the size of a Jaffa cake.
As I grew older, I ... Read review
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Advantages: Looks, Weight, Straps, Safety Disadvantages: Poor fit, Very hot
...It was very light. Apparently MET use a special manufacturing process that bonds a rigid plastic outer shell on to the shock-absorbing polystyrene inner. Which means that, weighing less than 300g you would hardly notice it and several times I bumped my head on the top of the shed while getting my bike out. But weight isn't everything and the most important feature of all is how well it protects your head in an accident. Here, I am happy to report, ... ...car I can categorically state that my trusty, good-looking, ill-fitting, over-heating Ippogrifo helmet saved my noggin. Obviously it didn't receive a direct blow from a car - that would have been a bit too much to ask. But it did get hit by some high-speed metal and plastic, sufficient to leave large chunks of the helmet (which would otherwise have been my skull) missing. Equally impressive, it took a hefty blow to the side, across my left temple ...
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