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Peter Gathergood:
The 'Why Cycle' website has a good section on helmets in general - see www.whycycle.co.uk/safety-helmets.htm.
My golden rule advice for you - make sure it fits.

James:
A good fit and ventilation is the most important and generally 'you get what you pay for'.

PeLu:
I like the Reevu with the built in mirror. But try it first if it suits your bicycling style, they do not work with drop handlebars (but there should be a different model next year or so). The rest (fit and ventilation) of them is like the better helmets I had.

Chris Land:
quote:Originally posted by tynevalleycommuter

I really think if some of the 'no-helmet' brigade actually tried a reasonable modern helmet they could be converted almost straight away.

Not that I am a card-carrying member of this particular brigade, but I have recently laid off wearing helmets quite so much as I used to.  I have had a couple of minor tips whilst commuting - once when a car turned left on me (my own fault as I pulled alongside at a ped-crossing[:I]) two on ice.  On no occasion was my head involved.  Of course, I do wear a helmet sometime, but in the summer I have noticed that a combination of over-heating and sweat in the eyes (even on a  relatively new lid, with good venting) is actually dangerous for my riding and certainly reduces comfort and cycling pleasure. In the trade-off I sometime go for helmet free.  

Of course, the statistics and relative dangers can be debates ad nauseum but at the end of the day it's what you feel confortable with.

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