Helmet Reviews & Riding Gear Expertise
Stand two helmets side by side on a shop shelf and, honestly, you probably couldn’t tell which one costs £150 and which costs £450. That’s the trap. A fibreglass helmet vs polycarbonate helmet decision isn’t about which one looks tougher — it’s about what’s happening inside that shell the split second it hits tarmac, and … Read more
Six hours into a Cornwall-to-Cairngorms slog, your helmet stops being a piece of kit and starts being a roommate. A good one disappears. A bad one reminds you, every single mile, that it exists — through a whistling vent, a visor that won’t stop misting, or a dull ache creeping across your temples somewhere around … Read more
Try this experiment next time you’re in a bike shop: pick up a cheap polycarbonate lid with one hand, then pick up a fibreglass one with the other. The difference is subtle, but it’s there — a sort of density that tells you the shell is doing more work with less material. That’s the whole … Read more
There’s a specific kind of quiet that settles over a long motorway stretch once you’ve found a genuinely good touring lid — no buffeting, no rattle, just the low thrum of the engine and, if you’ve fitted the right kit, a podcast or a mate’s voice coming through crystal clear. That’s the promise of a … Read more
Somewhere around mile 150 of a motorway slog, most riders stop thinking about horsepower and start thinking about their neck. A fibreglass touring helmet is a helmet with a glass-fibre or glass-fibre composite outer shell, valued for combining a lighter weight than polycarbonate with a more forgiving, energy-spreading way of absorbing an impact. That’s the … Read more
Here’s an uncomfortable truth about motorcycle helmets: the eye-wateringly expensive ones aren’t automatically the safest. A sport helmet under £250 can sit on a SHARP five-star podium right alongside lids costing twice as much, and if you’ve spent any time scrolling through forums at 11pm trying to decide between a fibreglass shell and “just getting … Read more
Right, let’s cut through the marketing waffle for a second. Buying a fibreglass sport motorcycle helmet isn’t like picking a phone case — get it wrong and the consequences aren’t “meh, I’ll live with it,” they’re rather more permanent. If you’ve spent any time trawling forums or standing in a helmet aisle turning lids over … Read more
Stand in any bike shop car park long enough and you’ll hear the same argument rumble on, usually between a bloke in full leathers and someone who’s just popped out for milk on a scooter. Fibreglass vs polycarbonate helmet — which one’s actually safer? Here’s the 40-second version: a fibreglass helmet is a composite shell … Read more
There’s a particular sound a fibreglass shell makes when you knock a knuckle against it — a dull, dense thud, nothing like the hollow plastic clack of a cheap polycarbonate lid. It’s a small thing, but it tells you something real: you’re holding a helmet built from layered woven strands, resin-bonded under pressure, designed to … Read more