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[sg5y]

Looking for a good helmet around 100$ with a visor option...I found this one so far...any other ideas??

L23 - E-Bike HELMET

Explore the LIVALL L23 e-bike smart helmet with a removable visor, brake warning lights and fit options. Review specifications before riding.

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[PedalUma]

Start with the Virginia Tech bike helmet test rating guide. Out of 120 rated helmets, look for one it the top 10 to 15.

Bike Helmet Ratings

Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings - Bike helmets have been tested to evaluate their ability to reduce brain injury risk.

www.helmet.beam.vt.edu

You can read about the testing process and equipment. One of mine has a removable visor that I attached a bright USB rechargeable light to with epoxy. With a wave of a hand I can change modes and power levels, say from strobe to bright. A light on the visor turns to where you are looking, like when you need to track the driver's side windshield to get their attention. I kinda like my brain.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Looking for a good helmet around 100$ with a visor option...I found this one so far...any other ideas??

L23 - E-Bike HELMET

Explore the LIVALL L23 e-bike smart helmet with a removable visor, brake warning lights and fit options. Review specifications before riding.

livall.com

I got annoyed pretty fast with visors. mine was higher end and you had to store the visor. but still they scratch easily and the optics are not that great. if it does not have anti glare that can be a issue too. but thats just me. its easier wearing wrap around glasses.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I'm wearing MTB "over-the-glasses" goggles in the winter.

 

[stompandgo]

I'm wearing MTB "over-the-glasses" goggles in the winter.

Oh. I thought you were going diving for lobsters after the ride.

 

[spokewrench]

I got annoyed pretty fast with visors. mine was higher end and you had to store the visor. but still they scratch easily and the optics are not that great. if it does not have anti glare that can be a issue too. but thats just me. its easier wearing wrap around glasses.

Confusing nomenclature. When a bike helmet is described as having a visor, I assume they mean a bill.

The root word of "visor" means "look." The face shields on knights' helmets weren't called visors until the 14th Century, when they could be flipped for the knight to look around. Probably, a visor also shaded his eyes.

Late in the 18th Century, working-class Europeans began wearing billed caps. To this day, they're called peaked caps in the military. In 1860, William Bower invented an eyeshade on a strap for horseback riding. He called it a visor. Bills on American baseball caps came to be called visors.

Around 1955, military pilots began wearing helmets with visors. In case of ejection, a visor was armor against a potentially lethal blast of air. The flip-up face protector on my logging helmet isn't armor any more than the flip-up face protectors worn by medical personnel. They're called shields or screens. Those seem like good terms for eye protectors on bike helmets.

 

[PedalUma]

 

[spokewrench]

An Amazon customer asked, "Does it come with a visor?"

Rufus answered,
Yes, the Protos Integral Arborist Helmet comes with an integrated face shield that can be activated with just two fingers. The helmet includes all protective components built-in—hearing protection, face shield, and adjustable vents—all designed to work together as a complete system.
The "swept back" design of the helmet provides optimal field of view while the shield offers additional facial protection during work.

So, AI knows it's not a visor!

 

[RunForTheHills]

Not too many years ago, I had a helmet of dark curly hair. Not so much these days.

 

[PedalUma]

An Amazon customer asked, "Does it come with a visor?"

Rufus answered,
Yes, the Protos Integral Arborist Helmet comes with an integrated face shield that can be activated with just two fingers. The helmet includes all protective components built-in—hearing protection, face shield, and adjustable vents—all designed to work together as a complete system.
The "swept back" design of the helmet provides optimal field of view while the shield offers additional facial protection during work.

So, AI knows it's not a visor!

It is a climbing arborists' helmet. Those are the guys who climb trees with ropes and chainsaws. A lot of their equipment is better for cycling than cycling equipment. They need to bend, stretch, and reach in all weather. Selves are extra long. Jackets have tails and adjustable ventilation such as zippers at the armpits. Their stuff is built. Most of the cycling stuff does not properly breath and will rip.

 

[mrgold35]

I do a mix of trail and road. I like the Bell Sixer MIPS with an up/down adjustable sun visor (live in southwest). I use padded wind resistance motor cycle goggles to help with dust/dirt/bugs when riding (polarized daytime, clear at night). I switch to ski googles in winter to help keep face warmer and help reduce glass fog.

The Bell helmet has enough vents keep you cool for triple digits summer heat and quick head adjustments for near freezing winters for a skull cap or balaclava for warmth. The added vent hole made it easy to add an extra Niterider Pro battery helmet light. I also attached a USB rechargeable Light & Motion Vis 180 Pro tail light on the back.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I do a mix of trail and road. I like the Bell Sixer MIPS with an up/down adjustable sun visor (live in southwest). I use padded wind resistance motor cycle goggles to help with dust/dirt/bugs when riding (polarized daytime, clear at night). I switch to ski googles in winter to help keep face warmer and help reduce glass fog.

The Bell helmet has enough vents keep you cool for triple digits summer heat and quick head adjustments for near freezing winters for a skull cap or balaclava for warmth. The added vent hole made it easy to add an extra Niterider Pro battery helmet light. I also attached a USB rechargeable Light & Motion Vis 180 Pro tail light on the back.



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The OP wants head and eye protection. I like the way you separate these duties so that helmet and eye protection can be optimized separately.

Hence back to the prior suggestion to prioritize safety and let the Virginia Tech test results drive the helmet purchase.

Lots of choice — even among the high-ranking helmets. Better yet, the results show a surprisingly poor correlation between safety and price.

Case in point: Thanks to Virginia Tech, got a very high-ranking lightweight, well-ventilated Specialized Chamonix 3 helmet for about $75 last year. That was full price — as I recall, some 4 times LESS expensive than the priciest helmets tested.

 

[PedalUma]

The fact is I do not have a lot of hair on top. So the sun shines through the ventilation ports burning me and making scabs. It is not good. But these are good. They are thin and lightweight so they fit under a helmet. They block the sun and also absorb sweat. Just toss them in the wash. They are four for $12.

 

[spokewrench]

My CC statements are complicated enough without 4 more bills!

 

[PedalUma]

I have purchased these four times. At $3 each I give them as gifts to my receding hairline riding buddies. They also keep a helmet smelling fresh. It is like a sock for the head instead of sweating in a sockless shoe.

 

[spokewrench]

I extended the visor on my helmet and use sock-like liners. I also minimize exposure when the sun is high. When it's at 45 degrees (shadow equals height), UVB is only 10% what it is when the sun is directly overhead. At that point, I'm not concerned. Years ago I worked out the math and marked the string on a plumb bob so I can dangle the bob just off the ground, note the shadow of my thumb and finger, lay out the string, and see by the shadow length how intense the UVB is in terms of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50%, and greater.

 

[PedalUma]

I extended the visor on my helmet and use sock-like liners. I also minimize exposure when the sun is high. When it's at 45 degrees (shadow equals height), UVB is only 10% what it is when the sun is directly overhead. At that point, I'm not concerned. Years ago I worked out the math and marked the string on a plumb bob so I can dangle the bob just off the ground, note the shadow of my thumb and finger, lay out the string, and see by the shadow length how intense the UVB is in terms of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50%, and greater.

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[indianajo]

In my 69 years of bike riding, I have hit my chin 9 times. I have never hit the top, sides, or back of the head except walking. IMHO the helmets above are worthless.
Try the Fox Rampage for a helmet that actually protects something. https://www.competitivecyclist.com/fox-racing-rampage-helmet It has 7 vents and I don't sweat a lot in it.
For rocks and insects in the eye I wear sunglasses, or clear safety glasses in bad weather or after dark. Nose is exposed to not fog up the lens.
Also at age 75 I have had spots (sebacious keratoses) on the head removed twice by dermatologist NP. 14 in February, 8 benign, 6 pre-cancerous. None from the top or back of the head. I have brown Native American hair, and keep it 1/4 to 2" long. I am outdoors a lot, including 3 years 3 months US Army. I've worn sunscreen since ROTC camp 1969. The 1969 USAR sunburn preventative preparation 8510-162-5658 would prevent tanning. I've been unable to buy that since 1980's. Best now is SPF70, although I wore SPF50 for years when that was the best I could buy. The SPF100 sunscreen I bought only the oil will squirt out of the tube, not the powder.

 

[kmartin760]

The fact is I do not have a lot of hair on top. So the sun shines through the ventilation ports burning me and making scabs. It is not good. But these are good. They are thin and lightweight so they fit under a helmet. They block the sun and also absorb sweat. Just toss them in the wash. They are four for $12.
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I'm a little late with this question, @PedalUma, where can I find these?

 

[PedalUma]

I'm a little late with this question, @PedalUma, where can I find these?

That is really funny, because seconds ago I reordered some on Amazon. I often give them away to other cyclists. It is hard to believe that they are $3 each. In a bike shop something similar with a dumb logo would be $25 each.