I was over in San Juan on vacation, and left my folding helmet at the store by accident while I was getting groceries.
Now, you might be wondering how you can forget a helmet? 🤔 its because I was just picking up some drinks for everyone, and after leaving the shop I left the helmet on a ledge then walked instead of biking the 30 feet to the airbnb. I had one of these Closca helmets:
While this was a good helmet, and the people on their site sure look like models wearing them, I could not seem to achieve the same level of aloof beauty wearing mine. In all honesty, in person it looks more like:
So while I wasn’t necessarily unhappy with it, I decided to instead go ahead and purchase a Fend foldable helmet to try something different.
Which now reminds me of
It unfolds easily, and it even lights up!
I’m much happier with the look. I appreciate the detachable lights (we also own a Faro helmet from Unit 1 with lights that I’d give a repairability score of zero). It is a bit on the heavy side, but I’m ok with that. It’s lighter than my wife’s Faro, but heavier than my POC Omne road helmet.
I feel the folded up shape fits better in my Brompton bag. The Closca, while roughly the same size folded, didn’t ‘tetris’ into my bag as well.
You can see i can shove it over to the side more, leaving the rest of the bag for various groceries. Hopefully next time I’m in San Juan I don’t forget this 🫠