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flag GyroShock
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 at 9:48 Quote
I've recently bought my first Freeride bike and I'm looking into buying a pisspot helmet. I was just wondering how effective those helmets are when it comes to safety. Some of those helmets can go for unbelievably low prices and that just gets me wondering how effective those things are when it comes to protecting your head or saving your life when things go wrong.

The two helmets that I'm interested in at the moment are the Giro Section/Flak and Bell Faction. One last thing that I would like to know is, how secure is the helmet on your head when you wear goggles with the helmet?
flag road-cyclist
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 at 9:52 Quote
I would buy a full face personally it'll save your face if you ever crash and go over the bars!!
flag jizzy-b
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 at 10:47 Quote
GyroShock wrote:
I've recently bought my first Freeride bike and I'm looking into buying a pisspot helmet. I was just wondering how effective those helmets are when it comes to safety. Some of those helmets can go for unbelievably low prices and that just gets me wondering how effective those things are when it comes to protecting your head or saving your life when things go wrong.

The two helmets that I'm interested in at the moment are the Giro Section/Flak and Bell Faction. One last thing that I would like to know is, how secure is the helmet on your head when you wear goggles with the helmet?

dude i rode around in a piss pot helmet for only one dh weekend!
reason being i faceplanted on my first real dh session, luckily no damage and only ate dirt, i considered myself lucky that my face didn't plant a small rock or root.
that could have been messy, as a result the rest of the day i spent doing the various runs cautiously slow! i made sure i had a full face for my next dh session!
and with that purchase came a whole lot of confidence to go for it again!
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flag ekguy
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 at 10:44 Quote
Go full face. I didn't have a full face helmet and cut my lip open all the way to my nose, straight through. You could see inside my mouth with it closed...All the way up to my nose...

Full face.
flag hdfreerider
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Posted: Dec 17, 2010 at 18:23 Quote
Dental work is expensive, any money you save buying a cheap pisspot wont be worth it if you bail and break your face.

So like everyone else is saying, get the full face
flag hampsteadbandit
Posted: Dec 18, 2010 at 10:13 Quote
if you get a good quality piss-pot like Giro Flak or TSG you will find it will do a very good job of protecting your head in a big crash - they have a tough shell and thick foam liner

at the start of this year I had an I-Pod wearing pedestrian step off the sidewalk right in front of me as I was riding my Devinci home at 20mph

I hit the pedestrian square on, went over the bars into the road and landed on my head, squashing the liner and crumpling the shell of my TSG Evo, and ended up with a nasty cut to my forehead from my glasses and a severe headache, in hospital they said it saved my life for sure!

however they obviously do nothing to protect your face from impacts!

and another consideration is that piss-pots are rated to the CE1078 cycle specificastion here in Europe, whilst full face helmets like the Giro Remedy and Bell Drop are rated to the tougher 1952-F DH specific cycle specification

its good to own several helmets:

I use a Giro Xen for XC riding, a Giro Section (light weight piss pot) for pump tracks and dirt jumps, and a Giro Remedy for DH and FR
flag theoneatsang
Posted: Jun 12, 2011 at 8:01 Quote
A riding buddy of mine hit a DH run with a pisspot and a Kona blast deluxe. Knocked himself out on a tree, had a seizure on the floor and was carried to the ambulance. He woke up in hospital 2 days later and didn't remember a thing. I'm getting a Kali avatar/THE point 5 as soon as I can afford to...
flag Rigaud
Posted: Jun 12, 2011 at 8:05 Quote
hampsteadbandit wrote:
if you get a good quality piss-pot like Giro Flak or TSG you will find it will do a very good job of protecting your head in a big crash - they have a tough shell and thick foam liner

at the start of this year I had an I-Pod wearing pedestrian step off the sidewalk right in front of me as I was riding my Devinci home at 20mph

I hit the pedestrian square on, went over the bars into the road and landed on my head, squashing the liner and crumpling the shell of my TSG Evo, and ended up with a nasty cut to my forehead from my glasses and a severe headache, in hospital they said it saved my life for sure!

however they obviously do nothing to protect your face from impacts!

and another consideration is that piss-pots are rated to the CE1078 cycle specificastion here in Europe, whilst full face helmets like the Giro Remedy and Bell Drop are rated to the tougher 1952-F DH specific cycle specification

its good to own several helmets:

I use a Giro Xen for XC riding, a Giro Section (light weight piss pot) for pump tracks and dirt jumps, and a Giro Remedy for DH and FR
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