 Poster: A snowHead
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What is the best helmet to avoid looking like a nob with a bullet shaped head?
I have a Giro 9 and it just makes me look like a connonball. Is there a different helmet out there? Ok you may say it is just me and my head BUT the same effect is not there in my Motorcycle helmet. Are ther full helmets out there, you know with full ear covering and a reasonably low rear to the hat?
Any (constructive) suggestions welcome, although i realise that I am setting myself up here somewhat...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I had the same issue with the Giro 9. If the G9 fits you well then try the new Giro Seam - it's an excellent piece of kit especially if you want a lot of venting - but it has a far better external shape than the 9. The goggle vent in the small peak works really well. The Giro Shear is the same helmet but the girlie version.
http://www.invodo.com/Giro-The-Seam/p/QK72ORQZ
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Go full face.
You look a bit of a cock snowploughing the greens, but hey you look the dogs in the queue! 
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| Maersk wrote: |
| Are ther full helmets out there, you know with full ear covering and a reasonably low rear to the hat? |
As it happens, Sweet protection do one like that here
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks for the replies.
Full face........................
snigger..............
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Maersk, ...I'd avoid helmets with solid cheekpieces for two reasons. Firstly, they attenuate hearing a lot more. This annoys people you are with and in some contexts can be a safety issue - 'don't go that way!!!!' or 'you're going to die!!!!' can't be heard. Secondly, they probably increase the possibility of rotational brain injury - I've posted on this before - where anything 'grabby' on a helmet can cause twisting, and this increases the likelihood of rotational injury, a serious form of brain injury. This is a recognised and researched area in cycle and motorcycle helmets (and there are plenty of resources on the internet on this issue) and, in the last decade or so, helmets for these activities have been designed to avoid it.
Personally, I have a G9 (seldom wear it since my partner immediately starts up with the Dambuster themetune...) and in preference wear my Giro Fuse (lovely helmet, light and with closeable vents). Nice.
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Maersk, Sweet helmets are nice ... but expensive and most of them don't seem to have much ventilation (the two reasons I didn't buy one).
I ended up with a Smith Variant Brim - which I like a lot and might be worth a look?
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valais2, I'm a little confused, it seems unlikely that having solid ear pieces would increase the chances of "grabbing" much. Could well be wrong, just doesn;t seem that likely to me. There's no way around having an edge to a helmet, the solid ear piece will make a slightly longer edge but surely its not that different.
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| valais2 wrote: |
| Maersk, ...I'd avoid helmets |
Good advice, IMHO.... horrible things.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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el nombre, Calm down dear... trolls need to eat too 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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el nombre, I'm sure I work with her...
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el nombre, thanks for the comment...it's an interesting point...there's been a great deal of time spent in motorcycle helmet research depts, looking at ensuring that nothing on a helmet encourages grabbing of any sort, to make sure that a helmet presents impact forces (at which they are excellent at absorbing) and no torsional forces (which they are not). The worry is that in slow accidents a helmet can increase rotational injuries, which occur at remarkably low energy intensities (see the second site below). Snowboard style helmets do have an edge, as you suggest, but this is often pretty recessed. Look at the front edge of a GIRO helmet such as the FUSE and it's no accident (sorry for the pun) that the front edge is very contoured - this is not just a function of the material of which the helmet is made, it's a design feature. Some of the older style helmets have quite protruding cheek pieces and although there's been no specific research on them, they are the kind of potential twisting mechanism which has been removed from motorcycle helmets. But I can't be definitive since the research has no been done. The worry though, is the low intensity of the forces required to initiate rotational injury.
http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1182.html
http://www.phillipshelmets.com/ROTATIONAL_HEAD_INJURY.htm
http://www.access-legal.co.uk/legal-news/new-cycle-helmet-could-protect-against-rotational-injuries-lu-2694.htm
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