Fibreglass Touring Helmets

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

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