🪖 Helmet

Guides and information about cycling helmets.

Brands

• 🇺🇸 Thousand — small range, consistently clean designs.
• 🇪🇸 Closca — folding shell, packs down for transit.
• 🇺🇸 Giro — mostly sport, but keeps a dedicated urban line.
• 🇬🇧 Dashel — made in Devon, B-Corp certified.
• 🇸🇪 POC — the Crane and Omne lines are the urban ones.
• 🇩🇰 Yakkay — plain shell plus swappable fabric hat covers.
• 🇮🇹 Kask — Mobius is low-profile, but has no MIPS liner.
• 🇮🇹 MET — broad range, with a dedicated urban line.
• 🇩🇪 ABUS — Hyban 2.0 MIPS is the inner-city commuter model.
• 🇩🇪 Melon — skate silhouette, based in Essen.
• 🇩🇪 uvex — large German range covering city models.
• 🇧🇪 Lazer — KinetiCore is their in-house rotational liner.
• 🇭🇰 Lumos — integrated lights, brake and turn signals.
• 🇺🇸 Bern — skate silhouette, crossover with snow.
• 🇺🇸 Kali Protectives — Saha is built from recycled materials.

MIPS

Multi-directional Impact Protection System: a low-friction liner that lets the shell rotate slightly around the head, reducing rotational forces in an angled impact.

• Not every model offers it, and it adds a little weight and cost.
• Some brands ship their own equivalent instead, so absence of the MIPS label alone is not a verdict on the helmet.