Current State of Helmet Tech, pt. 2: Giro / Bell

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4.9 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Rob Wesson about Giro’s approach to various helmet safety standards and certifications; the differences between a $65 helmet and a $260 helmet; the pros and cons of adding a chin bar to a full-face helmet, or a large visor to an enduro bike helmet; and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Giro / Bell background + Rob’s background (4:05)
Overview of the helmet market & sales (5:05)
How Giro handles the different safety certifications & standards (13:00)
Where have the biggest advancements in helmet tech been made? (19:28)
Where are consumer priorities these days? (24:04)
$65 MIPS vs $260 MIPS helmet (28:00)
Full-face helmets, Enduro helmets, etc.(32:04)
spherical shape - aerodynamics - and safety as it relates to shape (34:04)
What We’re Celebrating (40:02)

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody, and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.9	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:15.4	blisterreview.com.
0:18.4	Okay, today we've got the second episode of our series on the current state of helmet tech and
0:24.9	R&D.
0:26.5	Rob Wesson from Giro is here to discuss the state of the helmet market and the helmet adoption
0:32.8	that we've seen over the years.
0:34.9	We talk a bit further about helmet safety standards and certifications.
0:39.5	We also discuss the difference between, say, a $65 helmet and a $260 helmet.
0:47.7	We discuss the pros and cons of adding a chin bar, which you find on full face helmets, or the pros and cons of adding
0:57.1	a large visor, which we all see these days on enduro bike helmets. And above all, I think that
1:04.2	you are going to come away from this conversation with an even more nuanced understanding
1:08.9	of the factors and variables that go into helmet design.
1:13.9	And so with that, let's get to it.
1:19.7	Well, Rob, how are you today and where are you today?
1:24.8	Well, great, great to talk with you.
1:26.9	I am currently in our office in Scotts Valley,
1:29.6	California. But yeah, I just actually just got back from a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
1:35.8	Got some mountain biking in over the weekend. So, yeah, so I'm ready to go. Excellent. So we're catching
1:41.4	you fresh off a vacation, huh? Well, well-rested, lucid.
1:45.0	Ready to go. Perfect. Well, hey, it has been, I think, literally five years since we recorded a conversation like this.
1:53.4	So I'm really interested and eager to kind of just circle back and get a fresh state of the union, right, on all this stuff about helmet tech and
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