comfy helmet advice needed please........

[Crackle]

Can't help on the comfort bit, I have a full head of hair

I think, as has been said you'd still do the same thing. I can think of one tumble I took where I went over the bars, bike on top of me and slid along the road after hitting something in my path at night. I did the same as you, tensed up and held my head up and that was despite wearing a helmet. Next day, I was pretty stiff all over but in adittion I decided to buy a new helmet as I'd scraped the back of mine along the road because I couldn't hold my head up far enough to stop it scraping, despite trying.

In that kind of accident you do have to be careful or lucky that your helmet just scrapes and doesn't snag. If it does you'll still twist your neck muscles.

 

[Red Light]

This is why I HATE current helmet design (despite wearing one!) and HATE creeping mandatory-ness(?) because they offer little to no absorption. Someone needs to make bicycle helmets that actually have an absorption layer so energy from impact isn't just transferred to your neck!

The absorption of the helmet has been optimized for just what you did, fall off the bike onto the ground - it won't get better than that. The polystyrene the helmet is made out of is the absorber.

 

[Jezston]

The absorption of the helmet has been optimized for just what you did, fall off the bike onto the ground - it won't get better than that. The polystyrene the helmet is made out of is the absorber.

You know a while back when I was looking into motorcycle helmets I'm sure the info I found seemed to show the hard outer shell layer, a 'diffusing' layer of expanded polystyrene (like in bicycle helmets) then a third 'absorbing' layer made of a foam or gel, but looking about now just seems to show two layers. Maybe I would looking at some other design ...

 

[deano69]

Cheers anyway for all the comments everyone, at least i have learnt im not the only baldy on here but the way i see it is that it makes us more aerodynamic, less drag ............

 

[ufkacbln]

Cheers anyway for all the comments everyone, at least i have learnt im not the only baldy on here but the way i see it is that it makes us more aerodynamic, less drag ............

You are NOT a real cyclist until......

You have the patches of sunburn on the back of your hands from gloves, and the pattern of your helmet on your head!

 

[Red Light]

You are NOT a real cyclist until......

You have the patches of sunburn on the back of your hands from gloves, and the pattern of your helmet on your head!

Does the pattern of no helmet count?

 

[ufkacbln]

Does the pattern of no helmet count?

 

[C_P_]

I'm also a baldy and sweat a lot just had to replace my helmet and got a specialized echelon. very comfy and keeps me cool, i sweat a lot less.

 

[stevetailor125]

Does that mean if you have long hair or a beard you should shave it off, to save weight off of your head. Of course glasses may add to your head rotation so those are a no go.

If I took my glasses off I'd need a guide dog sitting on my handebars

 

[screenman]

Maybe even look at having half of your head removed as this would mean even less of this mysterious extra rotational force often babbled about.

An earlier post about the helmet snagging, far more chance of your skin snagging in a crash than a nice shiny plastic helmet case. JMHO.

As for the guide dog, I would be the same.

 

[Globalti]

When I was a kid a climbing helmet nearly killed me; I was ragging around with a pal, wearing an early Joe Brown helmet, which was shaped a bit like a WW11 Nazi helmet. My pal grabbed the helmet and twisted it, the leverage of the wider helmet was enough that my neck muscles couldn't resist and my neck twisted beyond 45 degrees. My vision went black and I suddenly realised I was in danger of a snapped neck and screamed, so he let go. You could see that one in the news as a " boy kills friend in tragic accident" headline.

 

[Headgardener]

If I took my glasses off I'd need a guide dog sitting on my handebars

I've just this vision of a large golden lab sat on the toptube woofing at traffic and pedestrians .

 

[peelywally]

sorry hear about your fall op , its always sore in the morning btw even with a helmet as you said your natural reaction is to tense up for impact and it puts strain on your neck muscles , nothing can be done about that as far as im aware .


imagine you could buy a fully padded helmet with an inch of foam inside then imagine cycling in hot weather with that kind of insulation

lots of styles of helmets shop around and try them on to get a good fit .

 

[Winnershsaint]

I'm also a baldy and sweat a lot just had to replace my helmet and got a specialized echelon. very comfy and keeps me cool, i sweat a lot less.

Just got a Giro Stylus, also a baldy, razor assisted, comfy helmet but seem to sweat like freak. Boots factor 50 sunstick to stop odd red patches on head.

 

[Holdsworth]

I am also another sweaty cyclist, always have been and dunno why. Anyway I use a Giro Indicator as a lid but I tend to get a really sweaty brow, I have tried wearing a buff underneath to mop it up but it blocks the airflow even more and makes my head feel really rather warm and wet on top. I tend to have my hair cut short, a #1 or similar is the usual but I do got to a #2 quite often.

Advice please