When I purchased Eliza, I initially invested in a $30 tec helmet. I was happy enough with it - cycle trading company actually gave me it for free.. when I bought my $700 bike. Anyway. I originally thought that it was fine! Though I found it was a fiddly fit and it just didn't feel right. In discussion with the male human however, we rationalised that there are two head, eh, shapes. oblong and round.. a member of CAN at the recent (21/12/12) spokes summer solstice ride said that you are a Bell helmet or a Giro! Now that I think about it I definetly had a bell helmet as a kid! I believe it had butterflies on it.
Tec helmet (left) with a Nutcase helmet (right)
My tec helmet was made for those of an oblong head dispossition. I, however, have a round head. Quite round.
The above photos hopefully illustrate what I mean. However, small difference it may seem, the slightly longer shape of the tec enabled it to work its way backwards over my head and off my (very essential) frontal lobe. Nutcase (which shall be reviewed in a later post) provide a variety of thickness of padding to allow slightly different head sizes to be accomodated. Very clever!
Lesson: I implore you to chose an appropriately shaped helmet as well as sized! Otherwise whats the point?
One good thing did come out of the tec helmet however, they are made here in Christchurch so the money is pulled back into the economy in our immediate area.
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