![]() Giro claims the Vanquish weighs 305g without the eye shield (which is how I wear mine), but I think that’s in a smaller size. Part of the reason the Helios Spherical stays on my head is the shape. In each case they appear to be the Roc Loc 5 Air. Here’s the odd thing: I can’t tell a whit of difference in the retention system in each helmet. What they may be less happy about is that my prior helmet, with which I was unsatisfied, is the Giro Vanquish. I’m sure Giro is very happy that its Helios Spherical is such an improvement over my prior helmet. It just sucks right onto my head, but without undo pressure. In fact, there’s something about this helmet I’ve never before noticed: When I take the helmet off, I need to loosen the retention knob a little in order to put it back on, because the helmet appears to secure to my head at the base of my skull. This helmet just flat solves the problem for me, and I can’t say it’s a better helmet than others on the market I can only say that it solves a problem I uniquely have. ![]() I’m not pretending that my problem is yours I’m just telling you what my problem is, and why the inside helmet shape, and the retention system, is more important to me than it might be to you. This makes the shape of the helmet, and the retention system, really important to me. This happens to me in helmet after helmet. When I’m in the aero position on a tri bike I have the same problem, because my head is less upright (I'm looking more toward the ground), and weight of the helmet, and the momentum of the helmet when I hit a bump, dislodges it and it rotates forward, obstructing my vision. This happens typically on a descent, and when I go over bumps. What makes a helmet work really well for gravel makes it work really well for triathlon, because I have the same helmet problem during both of these avocations: the helmet slides down over my forehead, obstructing my vision and I have to reach up and tilt it back. Eighty percent (closer to 90 percent) of what we buy never gets listed in the triathlon category even though triathlon money bought it. Point-of-sale software systems that have products categorized by sub-specialty don’t give our sport credit when we buy a road helmet, or a floor pump, butyl tube, cycling bib and jersey, and so on. Which – if I may complain for one short paragraph – is why triathlon is a much, much bigger category than cycling data-crunchers give us credit for. I’m wearing my aero helmet – what – 3 or 4 times a year? What about the other days, training and racing? This investment here, the “road” helmet, is by far my most important helmet investment (and by “road” I mean road, gravel, tri training, everything other than a triathlon race helmet). Racing 8 or 10 times a year is a big race year for me, but that includes gravel races and swim/runs. But like you all, I have a big investment whenever a particular thing doesn’t work, whether saddles, shoes, helmets, and that’s the state I was in. I am – truly – pickier about my socks than my helmets. I don’t care if a helmet costs $369 or $69. This is a moderately high-end road helmet, selling for $250. It’s the Giro Helios Spherical and what I have to write below will make Giro both happy, and. ![]() This new helmet was a godsend – I didn’t know who else sent it – because of how perfectly this helmet fits my noggin and how rare that is for me to find. This was welcome, as I have not been happy with my current helmet and had been thinking about how I’m going to find a helmet that fits me (which is not a trivial task in the age of COVID).
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