The Best Selection of Urban Cycling Helmets
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Urban bike helmet: our tips for choosing it well
Do you get around town by bike? Whether you use electric or unassisted bikes. It is now easy to choose an urban bike helmet, the number of models available on the market is impressive.
Here are some simple tips for choosing the right bike helmet.
SECURITY
Whether you cycle around town with an electric bike or not, it is easy to find an urban bike helmet among the large number of models available on the market. However, it is important to take into account the safety criterion when choosing your helmet. Whether you ride near your home, in the city center, on a cycle path or on the outskirts of town, it is essential to choose a bicycle helmet that complies with the regulations in force. European standard CE EN1078+A1, mandatory for all bicycle helmets since 2013, guarantees a solid construction and outer shell, shock absorption properties, as well as a reliable retention system including chinstrap and safety devices. Tightening. It is important to remember that wearing a bicycle helmet is primarily intended to save lives and prevent disability.
THE STYLE
Explore the city center on a gravel bike, electric bike, VTC, mountain bike or vintage city bike in style, it's better.
The style of the city bike helmet is the second criterion to take into account when making your choice. Here, the goal is simple: find a women's or men's urban bike helmet that matches your style: chic, hipster, courier, vintage. Discover our selection of vintage bicycle helmets .
THE COLOUR
The urban bike helmet comes in a multitude of colors, matte or shiny.
Faced with classic colours, such as red, blue “navy blue”, matte black “black”, gray “grey” or white, other colors exist to allow you to distinguish yourself.
Strongly assert your style by opting for an urban bike helmet: rose gold, terracotta, mint green or silver.
COMFORT
This is the other secret to choosing the right urban bike helmet: it's comfort.
Your bicycle helmet must guarantee your comfort. The temptation to do without your urban bike helmet is great if you consider these accessories uncomfortable. Whether you are a regular or more occasional cyclist, putting on your bicycle helmet should remain a pleasure and should not cause you to feel rejected.
You can also include in your reflection the performance of the helmet in terms of aerodynamics. Here, it will be a question of not feeling (too) slowed down in your travels by city bike, hybrid bike, mountain bike, electric bike, etc.
Good internal foam, which fits the shape of your head, will also be important to ensure maximum comfort.
THE ACCESSORIES
Among the most important accessories, we will find lighting. Many helmets today offer red rear lighting. This is particularly safe because your head is always visible to motorists. Other models offer a mounting system for front lighting.
The visors are also part of the particularly relevant accessories when it rains or there is a lot of wind. Certain models of visor are with a smoked glass which protects against the sun's rays.
ADULT BRANDS RECOMMENDED BY MAX
At Max And The City, we offer many urban bike helmets for men, women and children. Here are the best products we offer:
THOUSAND
By combining protection and comfort, Thousand helmets offer a casual style or a more sporty style. Currently, the two flagship collections are the very elegant Thousand Heritage helmets for an interesting price and the Thousand Chapter helmets with MIPS technology for a slightly more expensive price which takes up the successful urban design of the first Heritage collection by adding an interchangeable visor. . In addition, the helmet from the Chapter collection offers a light for a position at the back of the helmet, this is magnetic and rechargeable, it allows it to be visible to other road users.
What sets them apart is the pop-lock system, very practical for urban use, which allows you to secure your helmet by passing its anti-theft device inside thanks to a dedicated hole. This brand never offers promotions. However, all models are in stock at Max And The City.
Kask
Kask helmets are available in several collections of urban bike helmets for women or men with an average weight of 400 grams. The first model is the Kask Möebius helmet with a sleek urban design, with its visor and removable padding for perfect comfort and hygiene at a price of 89 euros only available in Small or Medium. The range of Kask Urban Lifestyle helmets and Kask Urban R helmet models with a more urban style and a panoramic visor for all-round protection for a price slightly above 150 euros. Several visors are available with different type of tint. A wide choice of colors to suit all tastes, with a Black model for a shiny black, Sugar Paper Blue for a blue, Silver for a grey/grey or Blue Navy for a navy blue with several sizes: small, medium or large . These models are in stock and regularly on sale on our site. Most urban bike helmets for women or men are available in Small, Medium and Large.
MÂRKO
Mârkô helmets consist of two collections, Tandem and Cadence. The first, the reference, the Tandem helmet is one of our customers' favorites with its padded interior that offers maximum comfort, a clear visor included with the helmet to protect you from rain and wind, this can be replaced by an additional smoked visor. The particularity of the Tandem helmet is its removable ear flaps to protect you from the cold during the winter. Available in 5 colors, from size XS to XL.
The Cadence helmet is a new version of the Tandem, with an adjustment wheel at the back to adjust the size of the helmet, a smoked visor integrated inside the helmet as well as a small light at the back to be visible.
CGM
All CGM brand helmets offer a visor to protect your eyes and part of your face as well as removable ear flaps to face the cold during winter. The brand consists of two collections which differ in the material used for the earpieces, leather or fabric. The CGM Ebi Mono collection with fabric earpieces offers 6 colors ranging from size 50 cm to 61 cm. The CGM Ebi Vintage collection with leather earpieces consists of 5 colors ranging from size 53cm to 61cm.
COSMO CONNECTED
Cosmo Connected helmets are distinguished by their ability to be connected with your phone, to offer you the possibility of personalizing your integrated lights as well as warning your loved ones in the event of a fall. Two collections exist at Cosmo Connected, both models are designed with this technology and an adjustment system using a wheel at the back. The first model, Pure offers integrated and customizable lighting. The second model, Premium, also offers you integrated and customizable lighting with a small remote control to allow you to indicate your changes of direction to other users. The Premium model is also equipped with removable ear flaps to stay warm during the winter.
AEGIS
All Egide helmets are handmade in France from full grain leather. You will find many colors like black, brown, red, cream, white, pink, etc. The flagship model is the Egide Ino Color helmet , with its magnetic visor, it offers additional comfort. All Egide models are in stock at the best price at Max And The City.
FOLDABLE MODELS: Closca and Overade
Easy to store in your backpack, foldable bike helmets are particularly popular with city dwellers. There are two different models on the market:
The Closca Classic Helmet foldable helmet , which has the particularity of being flattened. The Closca fits easily in your backpack when folded. It is available in matte black and matte white.
The Overade Plixi Fit foldable helmet offers a different folding system from the Closca. It folds into several parts to fit in your hand. It exists in several colors: matte black, dark gray and a blue.
Do you want to go on a foldable helmet? They are in stock and available for quick dispatch.
BRANDS FOR KIDS RECOMMENDED BY MAX
For children, there is a full range of helmets and accessories to ensure their safety with their bikes. Here are some good ideas:
A collection of Thousand junior helmets has been developed while remaining in the vintage style of the brand and in many colors such as blue, silver, black black or even striped white.
For children, the ideal range of Bern Nino 2.0 helmets with a nice selection of size Small or a size Medium. The collection offers several colors such as pink, black or cream or designs to appeal to children so that they want to wear it. Bern products do not offer a visor.
