Fibreglass Sport Helmets

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

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