You have child, age one to ten and you want to teach biking at this early age. But you are worrying about your child’s safety. Don’t worry about your child whenever he/she is outdoor skating, cycling, biking, snowboarding or riding a scooter/balance bike. Say goodbye to head injuries as our children bike helmet will keep your child safe from bumps and bruises. I’m gonna give you a guide in this content – How to Choose a Bike Helmet?.
A helmet is going to be the most crucial piece of protective gear that you will purchase when riding a bike. You want to protect your brain from impacts because if your brain doesn’t function after an impact you’re not going to be able to get back on that bike and keep riding.
So you want to make sure that you choose the right helmet for your child’s riding style with the right materials to protect your brain properly. There’s different constructions different materials for safety and a ton of color options and style options to choose from as well. So today we’re going to start by looking at the construction of helmets and then move into the different styles looking at the features and benefits of each.
- So let’s start at this construction at the core of all helmets is going to be the foam liner. This has been made out of foam for the majority of helmets careers. Although there are some new materials on the horizon that are being looked at for their benefits now what foam does in this case is. It crushes under an impact and that allows the impact forces to be reduced from the impact with the road to your helmet then to the foam core and then to your brain. This is really important because that slowing down of forces allows your brain to impact less inside your head and cause less damage. So we want that foam to deform and actually have kind of single-use impacts. There are some materials that are coming out that allow for multiple impacts. But most helmets these days are single-use that means if you have a big crash and you’ve hit your helmet hard it’s time for you to buy a new helmet. Even if you can’t see the impact you can often cause damage to the helmet. If you can see the impact absolutely 100% replace that helmet now.
- The next piece in construction is going to be the shell and this is usually made out of something like polycarbonate or carbon fiber and it provides a hard surface that is hard to tree and actually provides a little bit of sliding effect when you impact now. Both of these things are important because you don’t want things like tree branches or rocks being able to push through the foam. So the hard part is really crucial and then the sliding factor is also crucial because if you’re impacting in motion. It allows your helmet to move along without pulling your head in weird directions and causing either damage to your neck and possibly rotational damage in your brain.
- Now the next pieces are going to be the retention system and most helmets have some sort of dial or ratchet retention system and this basically wraps around your head and engages your head with the helmet and you can spin your ratchet or adjust your dials in order to make that snugger or looser and so you can actually do this on the fly with most helmets.
- The next piece is going to be the straps and this works similarly to what we saw with the retention system. It’s going to fall underneath your chin here and around your ears and that again helps to hold your helmet in place both while riding and in the event of a crash.
- The next piece in construction is going to be the shell and this is usually made out of something like poly-carbonate or carbon fiber and it provides a hard surface that is hard to tree and actually provides a little bit of sliding effect when you impact now. Both of these things are important because you don’t want things like tree branches or rocks being able to push through the foam. So the hard part is really crucial and then the sliding factor is also crucial because if you’re impacting in motion. It allows your helmet to move along without pulling your head in weird directions and causing either damage to your neck and possibly rotational damage in your brain.
- Now the next pieces are going to be the retention system and most helmets have some sort of dial or ratchet retention system and this basically wraps around your head and engages your head with the helmet and you can spin your ratchet or adjust your dials in order to make that snugger or looser and so you can actually do this on the fly with most helmets.
- The next piece is going to be the straps and this works similarly to what we saw with the retention system. it’s going to fall underneath your chin here and around your ears and that again helps to hold your helmet in place both while riding and in the event of a crash.
Now all these helmets have that basic construction but beyond that they have specific features and benefits to each. So we’re gonna look at these based on riding discipline. So whether you’re a rode writer or a d-h person where you’re gonna have a helmet that looks quite a bit different as you can see. So let’s start on the road side. (Click here)
