Low profile helmet advice?

any pro-tec with 2 stage foam lining will be thinner overall than its styrofoam lined counterpart.

Maybe look at rock climbing helmets.

Any new era hat should do.

TheTruth said:

Any new era hat should do.

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yea, but can you footjam it?

v-digit said:

yea, but can you footjam it?

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only if its on backwards

Yea I need to shop around for a low profile helmet. My dome is pretty huge so any helmet that doesn't make it worse would be great.

I had the same issue and after hunting about picked up a Bern Brentwood helmet. If you have a big dome like I do, they even come in XXXL (64cm equiv). Low profile and well fitting, good looking helmet. If you cant find them in a store call them direct and place an order. Say goodbye to "five-head".

my friend has a pretty big noggin and rocks the Protec Bucky Lasek lid. note, it doesn't have much padding, it's really just some foam, and then a very flexy plastic shell.

I find that only fat people have large heads, due to the fat on their heads.

Yeah, i have kind of a medium, but narrow head. The low-profile helmets I sqw were the Bern (didn't get to try it on) and just ended up with a medium bell. I scraped the styrofoam in the front and a bit in the back to allow my head to fit better (bigger forehead I guess).

The only REAL slim design and low profile helmets I saw out there were the full-face helmets by Troy Lee Designs. I'm sure there is few other full-face helmet makers that do slim design also. But these cost between $150 - $300. I tried on the TLD and it felt really good. No bobble-head action.

Paulyd said:

my friend has a pretty big noggin and rocks the Protec Bucky Lasek lid. note, it doesn't have much padding, it's really just some foam, and then a very flexy plastic shell.

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thats the 2-stage foam

sealclubber said:

thats the 2-stage foam

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yeah i checked.

A helmeted Brian Foster gets it done on East Coast trails. "Everyone who does wear a helmet these days seems to have a story," says Foster.



http://espn.go.com/action/bmx/blog/_/post/6355264/brian-foster-brain-trauma

During Dew Tour practice several years, Fit/Fox/Primo all-around legend Brian Foster fell during practice and cracked his skull. Considering the severity of a skull fracture, BF got off lucky and made a full recovery, choosing to wear a helmet for the majority of his riding following the injury. Then, in the fall of 2008, Brian's Fit teammate Mike Aitken was injured at the same trails Brian rode on a semi-daily basis, and according to Brian, "that flipped a switch."

Nowadays, Brian makes an effort to wear a helmet as much as he can, and hopes that the progression of BMX riding will soon be matched by the progression of BMX equipment. Recently, Brian got in touch to discuss his head trauma, and why he thinks the use of safety gear needs to progress alongside the progression of the riding . This is the Blue Falcon.



ESPN.com: Do you always wear a helmet when you ride now?
Foster: I'd like to say I do. But you'll see a picture of me without one, and then I'll look like a liar. I wear it 90% of the time.



What prompted you to wear it more than you used to?
Like five years ago, I was at the Dew Tour. Practice got postponed till the next morning, and so I was practicing at like ten in the morning, and my feet were kinda wet cause I had dew on my feet, and my helmet wasn't strapped. My foot slipped off on the lip of a double, and it flung me. And when I hit the ground, my helmet flew off, and I hit my head. I don't remember the next five minutes. The medic said I was answering questions, but that I was real silly. I remember waking up in the ambulance and spending the night in the hospital. I cracked my skull near my temple. That started it. I wore it pretty religiously, and after a couple of years, I started slacking, unless I was riding concrete. Then, when Mikey [Aitken] got hurt, that kinda flipped a switch on that. Now, I ride one at the trails and on concrete. There's just that fine line when you're cruising around town or you ride a skatepark and nothing is higher than three or four feet. Those are times when I don't wear one.



Were there any lasting effects of your head trauma?
No, the doctor I went to said, "Don't ride for a month, and don't hit your head for six months," and that was kind of it. After three weeks, I started riding again, cause it was the middle of summer and the trails were perfect. But I had shorts, not shirt, and a Jamie Bestwick motocross helmet. I wore that for a month just to be safe. And I had a weird logic. I wouldn't wear any pads, so I wouldn't push it too much, but I wore the helmet just in case.


You used to wear a full-face back in racing though, right?
Yeah, it's kinda progression. Back in the day, everyone had an open-face helmet. And then they stepped up to full-faces, so I was used to it. But going from a Pro-Tec to a full-face, it's a huge transition. Your neck muscles need to adjust. The month I started wearing a full-face again, if I was landing flat, my head would do the full head slap because I didn't have the neck strength. Full-face helmets are only two or three pounds, but I hit my face more with the full-face because I would land on my elbows and chest, and normally, with a Pro-Tec, I would have enough strength to keep my face from hitting the ground, but the full-face helmet was so heavy that it would smash my face into the ground. Your face is digging into the dirt and it wouldn't even be a big deal.

Do you think more pros should step up and wear helmets?
Yes would be the answer. If you look at hockey twenty years ago, they didn't wear helmets. And then they wore the half shells, and now they wear the full helmet with face shield. It progressed. And I think BMX needs to have that progression. The half-shell skate helmet might not be the best choice if you're in Dew Tour dirt. But there are so many levels of riding that a Pro-Tec is fine for. Still, you don't see vert guys wearing Pro-Tecs cause it's a lot more serious. It's one of those things where people should wear helmets, and it's their choice. Everyone who does wear a helmet these days seems to have a story. A cracked skull story, or the three days in and out of a coma story. Back in the day, we were jumping four-foot high jumps that were ten-feet in distance. And now, the landings are 12-feet tall.

Do you think BMX overall is experiencing more head injuries now because the riding and the setups have progressed so much?
I paid attention through the years, and I've never heard so many cracked skull stories until lately. It's almost not even a big deal now. I crashed, I got knocked out, I had a small fracture on my skull and I was able to ride in three weeks. That scenario is becoming commonplace. If BMX was a "real" sport, it would be a much bigger deal. Football players get two concussions in a year and they're out. They're not allowed to play anymore. Even hockey players, they get one concussion and they have to take six weeks off. Between the setups and the riding, everything is getting crazier.