Advantages: Lightweight & looks great ! Lance wears one !
Disadvantages: Expensive

...Having had Giro helmets for a while, and my Helios hat being about 5 years old, I decided to buy a new hat a few months ago. I've worn it sevaral times a week for a while now, so thought I'd let you know about it ! The current advice on changing your bicycle helmet is to replace it after 5 years or so, even if it hasn't been involved in a crash, since pollution, UV light and weathering can apparently weaken its component parts over time. Not sure if this is just marketing hype to make us all spend more money (!), but I've only got one head, and wouldn't want to damage it over being stingy ! Giro has been making quality light-weight cycling helmets since 1985. Giro is the helmet of choice for world famous seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, as it is for winners of mountain bike world championships, cyclocross world... Read review

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Advantages: Stylish, lightweight helmet
Disadvantages: Fifty quid out of pocket!

...I've been riding bikes for years and have always avoided wearing a helmet but I live in the centre of Glasgow and recently my flatmate has been wiped off his bike a couple of by gormless car drivers. Admittedly one was quite comical, he was passing a car and the little old lady didn't check her mirror when she swung her door open... So this got me thinking, and seeing as my cycling is becomming more and more serious and have a lot of money invested in my bike I thought it time I invested some money in my head. Giro are a very good, well known manufacturer of cycle helmets. Both for extreme off road stuff and simple leisure cycling. The company started in 1985 when a man named Jim Gentes created the first lightweight adult cycling helmet in his garage. Business boomed and soon he had to take over his next door neighbours garage... Read review

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Advantages: Good bank with a good range of services
Disadvantages: expensive if you need an overdraft

...I have been with Alliance and Leicester Giro for the last 18 years; previously it was Girobank, the Post Office bank. I have had in those 18 years only three problems with my account, which can be traced to them; I believe this to be very good. All of them have been rectified within 48 hours of my contacting the bank and any charges that have been incurred have been refunded. The best one was when I went £20 and 15pence into the red and I only have a 20 “buffer-zone” on my account. I was charged £8 plus interest for using my overdraft facility, I rang and complained and they refunded the charges immediately as it was only a small amount over my limit. That is what I call customer service. One of the major advantages of this bank is that I can withdraw cash from any post-office, which means I don’t have to go finding a cash machine... Read review

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Advantages: free replacements
Disadvantages: no cyc;e helmet is cool!!

...I bought my first Giro helmet from Halfords a few years ago now. With it came a lifetime guarantee. How can they promise that? I hear you ask. Well the way they do it is this. You buy the original helmet, mine cost around £15, then if you ever have an accident of any kind you return the helmet to them and they send you a new one. They then use your damaged helmet for testing purposes to help them to improve the safety and design. Good idea I think!! And they also come in a wide range of groovy colors and patterns. Well worth the it, I know that helmets are not the trendiest things on the planet but if I have to look a bit silly to be safe, then so be it.... Read review

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Advantages: A bit of fun
Disadvantages: I cheated a bit.

.... He was also wearing his lovely little collar. I let him get away with that one, not all my colleagues would have done the same! Talking about pets, do you have any idea how many giros’ they eat every week? It must give them a lot of indigestition. 4). Babies. We women are suckers for this, “little Johnny, Suzy, Babs, Zak, kept me up all night teething”. These kids were as toothless as an old wino! “ My ex ran away with little Jonnie etc” so how come lass you are still claiming benefit for poor lost Jonnie. A classic this one, “My sister ran away with her fancy-man leaving me in charge of her five kids”, nice one, son, but she was in here yesterday asking for more milk coupons. “ Sob, sob, Babs has got the measles” every pregnant woman in the job centre starts to edge away, “Oh Dear” I say, as I am about to let her leave, “who... Read review

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Advantages: Great price and beautiful ride
Disadvantages: Lots of small probelms and so many expensive upgrades to be done

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Advantages: excellent service, open 24/7
Disadvantages: none to mind

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Advantages: Superb Inte