Helmets - the definitive thread.. Mod Note - Please read Opening Post

68 lost souls · 08-06-2020 08:53PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Can't help with shops but can tell you the sizing on my ones.

A L in a Kask Mojito / Mojito X is 59-62 and fits nicely. I believe they also do an XL in those. Giro sizing adds .5cm so L is 59-62.5 and they also do one size up again.

The Kask is perfect on my head and the Giro nice and better than most but still looks a bit mushroomy on my head.

I have a large kask mojito and a large giro vanquish. I find the giro is actually a little too big. My head is somewhere in the border between large and medium it seems

CantGetNoSleep · 08-06-2020 10:45PM

I've also got a massive head,have had to send back L helmets in the past. Once got a Giro that fitted great after two or three that just wouldn't work, and I've stuck with them every since. Looking for something new now actually so considering if I should change or go with a Giro Synthe

MojoMaker · 09-06-2020 12:42PM

If you like Giro then their Foray helmet is worth a look. It sizes down quite small and has pretty low volume up top. I was a 61-63 in a Giro Savant but oddly a 57-59 in a Foray. Nice neat helmet and won't break the bank, even if you go for the MIPS version.

JMcL · 10-06-2020 12:29PM

My head is both large and shaped such that the majority of helmets I try seem to be uncomfortable up top (not helped by lack of padding from hair) so I've a divil of a time trying to get helmets to fit (that and the mushroom look). I've a Giro at the moment which I'm very happy with I must say

tomasrojo · 11-06-2020 06:55AM

Potential all-ages mandatory helmet law passed in lower house of Isle of Man

https://road.cc/content/news/iom-make-bike-helmets-compulsory-all-274379

Would be the only one in Europe, if it goes all the way.

I don't know anything much about the Isle of Man, so no idea if the legislative council can amend the proposed road traffic legislation much.

magicbastarder · 11-06-2020 08:22AM

Doesn't the isle of man have no speed limits?

JMcL · 11-06-2020 08:56AM

tomasrojo wrote: »

Potential all-ages mandatory helmet law passed in lower house of Isle of Man

https://road.cc/content/news/iom-make-bike-helmets-compulsory-all-274379

Would be the only one in Europe, if it goes all the way.

I don't know anything much about the Isle of Man, so no idea if the legislative council can amend the proposed road traffic legislation much.

Like the channel islands they're a bit odd with regard to their relationship with the UK. Kermode and Mayo had a lengthy discussion about it on their BBC film podcast a few weeks ago (as you do!), so they've sort of got an in but not in relationship with the UK (wikipedia entry), but can make their own laws, hence stuff like the no speed limit and facilitating all manner of tax dodgers.

magicbastarder · 11-06-2020 09:04AM

from tomasrojo's link:

While some European countries have compulsory helmet laws that apply to children – under-15s in the case of Slovakia and Slovenia, and under-12s in France and Sweden, for example

are kids expected to carry ID?
i.e. if an 11 year old is out cycling in france without a helmet, and is stopped by police, what happens next?

triggermortis · 11-06-2020 09:05AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

Doesn't the isle of man have no speed limits?

There are speed limits in built up areas but once you’re out of those it’s a free for all

buffalo · 11-06-2020 09:18AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

i.e. if an 11 year old is out cycling in france without a helmet, and is stopped by police, what happens next?

Guillotine?

Cookie_Monster · 11-06-2020 10:01AM

tomasrojo wrote: »

Potential all-ages mandatory helmet law passed in lower house of Isle of Man

https://road.cc/content/news/iom-make-bike-helmets-compulsory-all-274379
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i presume they want to get rid of cyclists and get more vehicle based tourists due to the lack of speed limits? Because that is the only thing a mandatory rule facilitates.

magicbastarder · 11-06-2020 10:27AM

is there an isle of man TT for cyclists?

11-06-2020 10:43AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

is there an isle of man TT for cyclists?

There is a sportive held there every year that uses the TT course I think.

Seth Brundle · 11-06-2020 01:45PM

Isle of Man NOT looking to make cycle helmets compulsory
Members of Tynwald's lower house had expressed concerns over cycle helmets being made mandatory...

magicbastarder · 13-06-2020 06:35PM

does anyone know if there's such a thing as buying a sheet of the lined foam used for helmet padding, from which you could cut your own pads? rather than paying €10 upwards for a set of replacement pads.

magicbastarder · 13-06-2020 08:24PM

this is odd.

Bicycle shop owners lobby Co Mayo TD to call for mandatory helmets
Some of Co Mayo’s bicycle shop owners have lobbied a local TD to call for making bicycle helmets mandatory — an idea which is highly controversial and opposed by Irish and European cycling campaign groups.
https://irishcycle.com/2020/06/13/bicycle-shop-owners-lobby-co-mayo-td-to-call-for-mandatory-helmets/

it's based on a claim made by a TD but no bike shops actually named.

tomasrojo · 13-06-2020 09:41PM

Think that's a polite "no" from Griffin.

WashYourHands · 13-06-2020 11:12PM

I saw someone on a cycle today that had a helmet... but it was hanging from their handlebar! Personally I'll always bring my helmet on a cycle. I don't even notice it really.

tomasrojo · 14-06-2020 01:44PM

Dillon appears keen to keep pushing this:
https://twitter.com/Alan_Dillon/status/1272114055403024384

tomasrojo · 14-06-2020 01:49PM

Look as if it's getting fairly ratio'd though.

magicbastarder · 14-06-2020 02:22PM

yeah, the comments are an entertaining read.

AndrewJRenko · 14-06-2020 05:19PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

yeah, the comments are an entertaining read.

You can just imagine the 'sure this is a no-brainer, who could possibly object to this' thinking behind the proposal, and then suddenly he starts reading the twitter replies....

LeinsterDub · 14-06-2020 05:25PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

You can just imagine the 'sure this is a no-brainer, who could possibly object to this' thinking behind the proposal, and then suddenly he starts reading the twitter replies....

He's done this before. He clearly doesn't care what people think

tomasrojo · 14-06-2020 05:41PM

I suppose if there's another election he might have some chance of success, I don't know, but I can't see the proposed programme for government, with the 3x higher budget for walking and cycling, permitting something that's associated with a drop in the number of people cycling.

tomasrojo · 14-06-2020 05:47PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

You can just imagine the 'sure this is a no-brainer, who could possibly object to this' thinking behind the proposal, and then suddenly he starts reading the twitter replies....

I think this has happened to other politicians: "Hey, look at this open door that apparently nobody's noticed in decades!". Apparently it's brought up in the Dáil most years, with the proponent suddenly finding out that there's very stiff opposition to it. Seems to have happened to Paul Murphy anyway.

AndrewJRenko · 14-06-2020 06:42PM

LeinsterDub wrote: »

He's done this before. He clearly doesn't care what people think

Really?

12 element · 14-06-2020 11:25PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

this is odd.

Bicycle shop owners lobby Co Mayo TD to call for mandatory helmets
Some of Co Mayo’s bicycle shop owners have lobbied a local TD to call for making bicycle helmets mandatory — an idea which is highly controversial and opposed by Irish and European cycling campaign groups.
https://irishcycle.com/2020/06/13/bicycle-shop-owners-lobby-co-mayo-td-to-call-for-mandatory-helmets/

it's based on a claim made by a TD but no bike shops actually named.

This is the bike shop: The Bike Clinic

magicbastarder · 14-06-2020 11:28PM

any source for that?

CramCycle · 14-06-2020 11:44PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

any source for that?

On their facebook page

tomasrojo · 15-06-2020 01:16AM

The Fredly Do-Right set

(bikesnobnyc term, not mine)

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