[Closed] XC helmets - is it just me being a wuss

XCers do it in roadie hats...... 🙂

...talking utter mince...sorry.

never mind the helmet.

gloveless..... wierdo.

XCers do it in roadie hats

This. Some of the lycra euro XCers round where I live even carry their bikes down steep stuff, oh the horror!

Yes

Full face
Sunglasses
Short shorts (leave a skin gap between the shorts and knee pads)
White trainers

Then mince around some easy trails on either a) a brand new low end hardtail or b) a 20 year old full sus that was decent for its time and in a state of immaculate unridden-ness.

'Tis the style of 2020!

And yes I'm aware I'm being a snob, so don't bother pointing it out.

Nino says we are all overdressed for the riding we do.........

never mind the helmet.

gloveless….. wierdo.

LOL, yeah never thought I would .... just easier to sterilise hands if I end up touching a gate but I'm used to it now.

Yes you are.

I wear an XC lid, and no pads. I am fine with that. Bloody pampered modern trail bike stormtropper wusses... 😉

Yep. I've ridden BPW in an XC helmet.

although to be honest it didn't survive the trip after I landed on it, but I suppose that proves it was up to the job 🙂

Now I’m typing I should chuck the old helmet anyway as its past its ride by date

Do they have them, mine just has a manufacture date, May 2007...

never mind the helmet.

gloveless….. wierdo.

this

gloveless….. wierdo.

gloveless on the ups. Usually gloved on the way down.... But on Sunday the GF rode into me whilst I was spotting for her which sent me tumbling down the slope into the stream.

Gloveless is fine.

Do they have them, mine just has a manufacture date, May 2007…

Different manufacturers say different stuff... I think one agreed age is 5yrs ...

Yep. I’ve ridden BPW in an XC helmet.

This was 200m on the road... felt weird so went home and changed helmet

I think one agreed age is 5yrs

Only agreed by people that want to sell you a new helmet. Even they only start the clock once you buy it, apparently it's perfectly fine to sit in a warehouse for any time they like.

I do use gloves though. I never used to, then started in about 1993 after a series of falls from which I still bear scars. So I guess you could call it protective gear.

I would rather ride without any helmet rather than ride offroad gloveless.

[boring answer] don't all open face lids have to pass the same safety standard [\boring answer]

This lockdown on the hottest days when I've been out for a ride I've really embraced the freedom of no helmet, no gloves, and the best, taps aff. Liberational to feel a warm summer breeze over the handful of hairs on my pasty white chest. I wasn't mincing or pootling either. Sure it was a flat XC ride on farm tracks and lanes. Still, I'm a real man now. (Have even gone without socks, but never ridden in sandles).

Cowboy hats are where it’s at. Stop you going too fast as it will blow off.

Only agreed by people that want to sell you a new helmet. Even they only start the clock once you buy it, apparently it’s perfectly fine to sit in a warehouse for any time they like.

5 yrs is from the testing org rather than manufacturers. Still ... didn't see a good reason and most of my helmets will never get close to 5 yrs before a major crash anyway.

[boring answer] don’t all open face lids have to pass the same safety standard [\boring answer]

Yeah, it just "feels" wrong to me...

I would rather ride without any helmet rather than ride offroad gloveless.

Weirdly I'd have thought the same. It was only the impracticability of sterilising gloves led me to try

Liberational to feel a warm summer breeze over the handful of hairs on my pasty white chest.

I Googled that to see what images came up. You'll never guess what happened next.

I would rather ride without any helmet rather than ride offroad gloveless.

I ride without a helmet and without gloves and with weather like today no socks either. I only use gloves in winter when my hands are cold.