Are there any helmets that don't make you look like a bell*nd?

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Looking to get a new helmet at around £100 mark and have been reading this thread with interest. So I decided to go an try a load on today at my local Snow & Rock. Now I'm not exactly Brad Pitt, but sh*t man, every helmet I tried on made me look like a right tool. Open face helmets are just WRONG, period. I've been a biker for 20 years, always worn full-face Arai lids, which are cooler than a cool draw, and how I wish I could wear one of those but I'd laughed off the slopes......so the question stands, are there any helmets that don't make you look like a bell*nd or are they all as bad as each other?

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http://www.ruroc.com/9-rg-1-helmets

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Did you bring goggles with you? Helmets look odd if you don't have them with.

That aside - you won't look any different to any other helmet wearers. Nobody will think you look like a bell end, and if they do, they're the ones who need the attitude transplant.

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SiPieFace, Did you try em with goggles?

I'm sure you look fine in them in reality, but your user name suggests low self esteem in the facial department!? Confused

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SiPieFace, It's not so noticeable if you don't wear a pink one . . .

After all it is free

SiPieFace, As mentioned above you will need to try them with googles, 2 reasons...1. some googles will not fit the helmet very well at the side edges and will lift and 2. some will leave a gap at the top (between helmet and goggles) and so you get a headache from a cold strip, and a silly looking sunburnt line later on.......

Most helmets won't make you look like a bellend, with goggles that fit well. Till you sit a camera on the top. Then the bellend look is absolutely unavoidable.

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This season there has been a big increase in the number of helmet-wearers I see on the slopes. The huge majority of these are open-face helmets and I don't think they get a second glance from anyone else. Full-face helmets are still rare, and would definitely trend towards the bellend look.

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Pam w, ahhh but the people who do, couldn't give a poo-poo

if you really want to look a bell end, wear a full face if you do not absolutely rip

You know it makes sense.

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Lizzard, it was not encasing the noggin in the first place rolling eyes

Now a polycarb concom . . . that's protection Toofy Grin

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The only helmets I think look straight-up ridiculous, to the point of annoyance, are those Briko race helmets a lot of the juniors in racing programs wear. Also, some of the spherical ones (such as Giro), also can make some people look ridiculous.

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Just don't get one with a built in visor. Massive, shiny bellend points.

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Thanks for all the info, very useful. Going to go back with my goggles and give it another go.

Been digging around and I found this bad boy. Just wish I had the "I don't give a f*ck what you all think" attitude to wear one of these bad boys on the slopes but I don't and know I'd feel like captain bellend.......What's the bellend rating for this one?

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Something for the bunny slopes

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SiPieFace, avoid the purple one's as well

I'm working on something 'fullface' that hopefully should be availble in a year or two - hold on until then.

SiPieFace, We skied for the first time with helmets last week, hubby decided he definately wanted one, I wasnt so sure, but we bought them and wore them, my daughter said I looked like a worm Embarassed

Anyway after last weeks holiday it seems you look more odd if not wearing one, we counted whilst sat on a chairlift for 50 people skiing down, 6 wore hats! times have really changed and although I dont particularly like wearing it (nor looking like a worm) I will always wear it now.

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For the Full Bell End look you really need a camera strapped to the top of the helmet and a walkie talkie attached to the outside of your top pocket. Skullie

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SiPieFace,

From a fellow biker, who wears Arai and Shoei lids, i started wearing a ski lid three seasons ago. I wear a Head Pro lid, which the shape fits superbly with Bolle Nova goggles. I think it makes me look like a US marine, but my wife and mates say i still look like a total male chicken!!!!!

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http://www.head.com/ski/products/helmets/freestyle-men/?region=eu

However as a biker i think you would be more comfortable in a Dianese one wink

http://www.dainese.com/uk_en/multisport-winter/v-jet-helmet.html

To complete the look, Velcro some knee sliders on to your ski salopettes, preferably ones that are a bit ground down wink

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Santa's Nice and Nasty lists are starting early for some of you this year Twisted Evil

No way a helmet will ever look right if you try it on, in the middle of a shop, in your jeans and t shirt. I felt like a bell-end when I was trying them on but it was only for size.

It all comes together when you have the rest of your gear and goggles on.

Just buy a Bern helmet and everything will be ok.

You know it makes sense.

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

As others have said you need to try on with goggles to check the fit. You look a bit of an idiot in the shop, but will look cool enough on the slopes if you buy the right one!

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Not many people know this but one of the reasons skiing is so popular is that normally reticent, conservative, mild-mannered men (and it's always men) get to wear the most outrageous and ridiculous gear which, in any other context would make them look like complete and utter pull throughs.

I think it helps to keep in check all those transvestite leanings that we don't want to admit to.

So don't worry bout the helmet - it's the least of your worries. Just go ahead buy whatever looks the most bellendish and you'll fit right in.

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Big Paua,

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Thanks for the advice people, very much appreciated, think the bellend look is something I just have to live with.

So I headed back to Snow & Rock to have a really good look all the various lids on offer. But one thing that really struck me is how utterly sh*t the quality of the modern Ski helmets is. I mean it's like the laughable quality of 80's motorcycle helmets. They appear to be made from little more than paper mache. Even more amazing is that most of them were only classified as 'Class B' and which is such a low rating us bikers would laugh and reminisce if we even saw a Class B lid these days. I thought they'd scrapped that standard.

Also noticeable was that there's almost nothing to them in terms of weight/mass. Having ridden since my teens I fully understand the 'lack of weight is a good thing for fatigue' argument but is this a good thing at the expense of safety? Physics (pretty much) dictates that there needs to be something of substance to effectively deal with an impact. Most of these lids (I'm talking Smith Optics, Giro, Salomon and the like) would surely just disintegrate on impact. I don't mean would be unusable afterwards (because any lid should be thrown after an impact) but just split/crack/deform and be next to useless at helping prevent serious head injury during the crash.

I can't believe these manufacturers have the audacity to still offer p*ss-pot lids (TM) and ask us to stump up £150+ for them. OK if they're cheap, but at that money this is nothing short of scandalous, and for a Class B!!!!.

I totally get the safety thing and I've always spent what I could afford on gear. Some of this having saved my ass a few times on tracks day offs (dohhh, read new £500 Arai RX7/£800 Dainese leathers in the skip Shocked

). In biking you do generally get what you pay for and the more it costs the better it is. This doesn't yet seem to apply to Ski helmets. Sure the EU standards-mongers will get in there soon though, and for once I hope they do.

Anyway, rant over, back to looking like a bellend. I did find the lid below, which is Class A (yeehaa) and is, unsurprisingly given it's rating, made from some quality materials with a nice finish and with some substance. Only issue I have is it's a race-type helmet........acceptable or bellender-doing-the-snow-plough?

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SiPieFace, that's going to make you look like a bellend! Very Happy

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SiPieFace,
Not really quite the same as riding a bike though is it - I don't think I'd be all that happy with my full face racing helmet skiing (not least it would be quite warm!).
POC have an interesting discusion on their website on the materials that went into their top end skull comp carbon creation, and why the sort of construction you find in a motor racing helmet does not work.

There are already standards for ski helmets - at least here there is, which is odd when you see the excuses for motorbike helmets people wear here!

BTW do you think the A/B classification is due to the full sided helmet vs soft eared ones rather than the construction? In which case if that is what you really want you'll be needing a race style helmet; personally I'd find that too restrictive for the gain in protection.

I quite like Giro Seam !?

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