Re: HELMET: BEST BRAND?

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Well, here I go, advertising again.  I make a great visor.  I have tried and tried
to get Troxel and Lexington to make instead of me.  But, they don;t listen and I
sell 100's of these every year and all over the world.  They are a translucent
smoke color, are a wider brim and have velcro the entire way across, unlike
Troxel's peice of junk.  If you are interested, click on the below and look it up.

http://runningbear.com   look under helmets

teddy

Flemmer, Linda wrote:

> Rockinpony@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > OK.  You folks have sold me on helmets.  What are some of the better brands?
>
> Troxel and Lexington both make good helmets, but every helmet that is
> ASTM/SEI approved should meet the minimum protection requirements.  Look
> for that approval.
>
> In my experience, each line of helmet fits differently, and different
> models from any one manufacturer fit differently as well.  You need to
> try them on to see which fits the shape of your head the best.  It
> should fit snugly enough (when properly adjusted) that your scalp moves
> with the helmet when you rock it, but it doesn't pinch & bind or cause
> headaches.
>
> One friend of mine has a very oblong shaped head and had a lot of
> trouble finding a helmet she could wear.  She found the one that fit the
> closest and then used sand paper to shape the front foam on the helmet.
> This is NOT recommended by the manufacturer, but she felt that having
> ANY helemt was better than not using one when none of them fit.
>
> Most of the visors that come with the helmets are poor.  The ones from
> Troxel warped and didn't provide enough shade.  I bought an after market
> visor by a bicycle company called Salamander.  It is stiff cordura,
> larger than the std Troxel visor, velcros on, and much more stylish.
> (Came in a liited number of colors in a bike catalog - most importantly,
> it came in purple!)
>
> My husband's neck gets too sunburned when he rides in the summer.  (We
> already live in WV - we don't need to be red necks, too.)  He made a
> "French Foriegn Legion" cape to go over the helmet.  Thin white cotton
> goes from ear to ear around the rear of the helmet, kept on by an
> elastic band around the bottom of the helmet.  He looks like an extra
> out of an Erol Flynn movie, but it works great.  (One more thing for the
> neighbors to talk about "that crazy couple that moved in & rides the
> pooh out of their horses."  You know - funny tight, helmets, gaiters,
> gloves, weird saddles, bright colored plastic tack, wide stirrups,
> sponges et al hanging off of the saddle, now he's joined the French
> Foreign Legion)
>
> Linda Flemmer