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I guess it is down to personal opinion, if you reckon once your helmet has had a bang/bump and you need to replace it. Also i guess if people done there research into this, i personally find it crazy how in a major crash yes the helmet will be destroyed but more importantly save your life!.

But what you have got to think if you have bumped your helmet hit it around a bit and the out side of the helmet the shell looks okay even if it has a few scratches on, is it still safe to wear even with no visible damage! I know that EPS ( what they make the helmet from) cracks and bubbles even after one knock- yes it may still pass the test of EU standard but if you continue to knock it about even if it is a little drop because it fell of your handle bars or when trying to put it away, it loses its integrity more and more, and this will then end up failing the tests maybe? even though we don't have the equipment to test it every time we drop it- so we never know if our helmet is safe to carry on wearing! (hopefully it is) but if not and then you have a crash which where the helmet does not protect you like it should this can then lead to serious injury - which leads to the question of multi-impact.

thelawnet wrote:Cugel makes a fair point - while a bike with a crack or fracture or dodgy carbon could snap and kill you, so if you drop your £10k bike on the floor it might be as well to throw it away, but a helmet with a crack in it cannot necessarily said to have failed or to be useless. For example , if you keep the packaging from your new TV it will likely include some similar compressible polystyrene, and if it got damaged during unpacking it would still be usable and useful if you wanted to package the TV up in future, so in this sense it seems rather silly to suggest that any sort of impact should render a helmet 'broken'.

Apparently the shell is supposed to transmit forces throughout the structure of the helmet . I am not sure if cracks or whatever would in fact stop that.

It is a very fair point considering when you buy delicate products there is always polystyrene, looking into it more one how there material works it seems to reconstruct it self, if you have time watch some of their videos, on testing their helmet to a regular one the results are interesting- i know testing some times does not reflect a crash

I guess this is where the company called Hedkayse are going.. saying their helmet does not crack etc, £150 for the helmet though?... would you pay for this if it was bang on the money with what they are saying

mjr wrote:One is discussed in viewtopic.php?f=41&t=101635 but it is not yet on sale, years after it was announced.

Thankyou- just looked through their website very interesting!, from what they are saying it is being distributed soon! are you getting one?

irc wrote:

jack1992 wrote:I know helmets have came on leaps and bounds

Really? I thought the helmet test they are built to hadn't changed in years. I thought helmet design was mostly fashion, maybe better ventilation and comfort, but I've never seen any maker claiming their helmet was any safer than any other helmet.

In fact I wojuldn't be surprised if any advances had been used to make helmets to pass the existing test lighter rather than keeping the weight the same but giving protection that exceeded the test.

For an item pushed hard by many people on safety grounds there is little evidence of any attempts to make them safer.

The link given by the other response, the helmet company this is on about his Hedkayse, and when visiting their web page it does suggest what they have came up with is a material which absorbs the impact so it does not crack or destroy the integrity, looking at there blog page, some good videos of them proving that after many hits their helmet still passes the standards test whilst a 'normal' helmet fails after a couple of hits

I am looking for a multi impact helmet, i know helmets have came on leaps and bounds, so just wondering if there is anything out there which can take the crashes more then once- as i know it is recommended to replace once you've had a crash

geomannie wrote:

jack1992 wrote:

geomannie wrote:I have signed up for one of these "soft" Hedkayse helmets https://www.hedkayse.com/ via crowdfunding. Reasonably light (~450g) but foldable, exactly how foldable I do not know. It's main feature however is keeping its structural integrity even after impact, allowing one to have multiple crashes (I may not have phrased that right )

Sounds interesting?, has anyone else heard of this company?, but does seem very unique and clever if you can have multiple crashes and still be able to be safe and wear it (hoping not to crash though), could be a nice one of buy and then never have to buy a helmet if this is the case!

All I can really say is that the project has been delayed, with the helmet design undergoing several major revisions. It's now nearly 3 years since I put my money down. What they are offering now, however, is much more sophisticated than the original concept. The final design now has EU certification and the initial delivery run is promised for April 2019, barring any more delays (which have been numerous). I will report here (Helmets thread) when I finally receive my Hedkayse.

Sounds promising if the reason why they have delayed is due to improvements i guess! i shall keep an eye out for it! be interesting to see what your review on it is when you get yours!

geomannie wrote:

jack1992 wrote:Is there a light weight helmet out there which is also easy to pack up, when not on the bike so then it doesn't take much room up in the bag?

I have signed up for one of these "soft" Hedkayse helmets https://www.hedkayse.com/ via crowdfunding. Reasonably light (~450g) but foldable, exactly how foldable I do not know. It's main feature however is keeping its structural integrity even after impact, allowing one to have multiple crashes (I may not have phrased that right )

Sounds interesting?, has anyone else heard of this company?, but does seem very unique and clever if you can have multiple crashes and still be able to be safe and wear it (hoping not to crash though), could be a nice one of buy and then never have to buy a helmet if this is the case!

Is there a light weight helmet out there which is also easy to pack up, when not on the bike so then it doesn't take much room up in the bag?

I am looking for some great ideas for biking equipment for my coast to coast travel in March, and thought it would be good to ask if anyone got any really good bike equipment i.e Helmet,shoes etc that maybe really good to use for my coast to coast