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Best cycle helmet for under £10?
The title says it all, any recommendations? Cheers. |
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The title says it all, any recommendations?
Argos (the catalogue) sell 'em for as little as £7.99. The best, most comfortable helmet is one that fits perfectly. It'll also work better too. Best to go somewhere where you can try 'em all on, but that doesn't really square with the Under £10 bit :-) Thankfully helmets have to meet a minimum standard. The difference between very expensive and cheap helmets seems to be how light they are and how many vents they have. Apparently there's little difference in their protective qualities, although if you can find one with Snell written in it that's good, as it's a bit tougher than the curent standard. |
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Brian D'Amarge. vaguely muttered something like ...
The title says it all, any recommendations? Price doesn't matter, get one that fits correctly, and doesn't flop about in use. If you're buying it as a present, then I'd say don't .. unless it's not a surprise present and you take the recipient for fitting. -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules !!! http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using." |
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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:19:00 +0000, Mark Thompson wrote:
The title says it all, any recommendations? Argos (the catalogue) sell 'em for as little as £7.99. The best, most comfortable helmet is one that fits perfectly. It'll also work better too. Best to go somewhere where you can try 'em all on, but that doesn't really square with the Under £10 bit :-) Thankfully helmets have to meet a minimum standard. The difference between very expensive and cheap helmets seems to be how light they are and how many vents they have. Apparently there's little difference in their protective qualities, although if you can find one with Snell written in it that's good, as it's a bit tougher than the curent standard. I think that the cheap helmets with smooth shells and few vents provide better protection than expensive helmets which are made primarily for comfort and ventilation; removing thereby up to 50% of the styrofoam which could otherwise provide added protection. Peter -- If you are careful enough in life, nothing bad -- or good -- will ever happen to you. |
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Peter Keller wrote:
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:19:00 +0000, Mark Thompson wrote: The title says it all, any recommendations? Argos (the catalogue) sell 'em for as little as £7.99. The best, most comfortable helmet is one that fits perfectly. It'll also work better too. Best to go somewhere where you can try 'em all on, but that doesn't really square with the Under £10 bit :-) Thankfully helmets have to meet a minimum standard. The difference between very expensive and cheap helmets seems to be how light they are and how many vents they have. Apparently there's little difference in their protective qualities, although if you can find one with Snell written in it that's good, as it's a bit tougher than the curent standard. I think that the cheap helmets with smooth shells and few vents provide better protection than expensive helmets which are made primarily for comfort and ventilation; removing thereby up to 50% of the styrofoam which could otherwise provide added protection. Peter I don't think any helmet is made primarily for comfort and ventiliation, a cyclist will get far more comfort and ventilation with no helmet. Lets be realistic here for most of the life of most helmets they will not be protecting you as they were designed for, even when you use one, they will be sat of your head waiting to be put to use which for the vast majoity of them will never happen. |
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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:11:17 +0000, MSeries wrote:
Peter Keller wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:19:00 +0000, Mark Thompson wrote: The title says it all, any recommendations? Argos (the catalogue) sell 'em for as little as £7.99. The best, most comfortable helmet is one that fits perfectly. It'll also work better too. Best to go somewhere where you can try 'em all on, but that doesn't really square with the Under £10 bit :-) Thankfully helmets have to meet a minimum standard. The difference between very expensive and cheap helmets seems to be how light they are and how many vents they have. Apparently there's little difference in their protective qualities, although if you can find one with Snell written in it that's good, as it's a bit tougher than the curent standard. I think that the cheap helmets with smooth shells and few vents provide better protection than expensive helmets which are made primarily for comfort and ventilation; removing thereby up to 50% of the styrofoam which could otherwise provide added protection. Peter I don't think any helmet is made primarily for comfort and ventiliation, a cyclist will get far more comfort and ventilation with no helmet. Lets be realistic here for most of the life of most helmets they will not be protecting you as they were designed for, even when you use one, they will be sat of your head waiting to be put to use which for the vast majoity of them will never happen. I agree. Note I said "better" protection, not "better than good" protection. Better than awful protection is still awful protection, and if a bicyclist really wants to be as safe as possible s/he should look to other ways of minimising or avoiding injuries. Peter -- If you are careful enough in life, nothing bad -- or good -- will ever happen to you. |
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"Brian D'Amarge." wrote:
The title says it all, any recommendations? There are some excellent bargains at the Hampshire County Council Shop. They are well-made and at good prices as I understand the HCC does not add any mark-up. http://www.shopcreator.com/mall/Road...pic-7954-1.stm How _you_ determine what is "best" will of course depend on the use you have in mind for it. I've heard that helmets, amongst other uses, can protect against attack from birds of prey or can make good hanging baskets ;-) John B http://www.hampshirecycletraining.org.uk/ |
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Peter Keller wrote:
I think that the cheap helmets with smooth shells and few vents provide better protection than expensive helmets which are made primarily for comfort and ventilation; removing thereby up to 50% of the styrofoam which could otherwise provide added protection. In practice, AFAICT, helmets are built /down/ to a standard. This means that any hat that says it fulfils Standard Specification X is likely to do that and /not much more/. The more expensive helmets have a harder job doing this because of the venting, so I think they use better materials and more complex construction to achieve the standard (hence the higher cost), but in terms of what the standard is the "solid" hat won't do much better, if any, than the vented one. OTOH, stuff like a tree branch getting stuck through a vent and giving you an unpleasant poke is more likely on a vented lid, and that sort of thing isn't accounted for by the standards. As MSeries pointed out, no helmet is primarily about comfort. The point of extra vents is to give more comfort while affording roughly the same level of protection, that level defined by the standard and the testing required in order to be verified at that standard (which may or may not have relevance to the sort of accident you have to test it for real...) Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:39:58 -0000, "Brian D'Amarge."
wrote: The title says it all, any recommendations? Check the Snell Memorial Foundation website and look for B95A http://www.smf.org/certlist/std_B-90...90C_B-95C.html Some of these are Chinese / Taiwanese brands - likely to be very cheap. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at CHS, Puget Sound |
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"Brian D'Amarge." wrote in message ... The title says it all, any recommendations? Cheers. Is that your real name? Tom |
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