New Website Notice for Edinburgh Bicycle

Please note that the Edinburgh Bicycle Co-Operative now has a new website. To visit the new website, please follow this link.

If you have bookmarked a page from the old website, please update your bookmarked page so that you can go straight to our new website. Thank you.

The Edinburgh Bicycle website team.
                 

 

FAQ

 

Why does my 5-year-old helmet probably need replaced?

The Snell Memorial Foundation - a non-profit organization dedicated to research, education, testing and development of helmet safety standards over the last 40-odd years - recommend you change your helmet about every 5 years.

'The 5 year replacement recommendation is a consensus position from both the helmet manufacturers and the Snell Foundation. Glues, resins and other materials used in helmet production can affect liner materials, plus general deterioration as a function of hair oils, body fluids, cosmetics, and normal 'wear and tear' all contribute to helmet degradation.

Additionally, experience indicates there will be a noticeable improvement in the protective characteristic of helmets over a five year period due to advances in materials, design and standards.'

 

 

 
If your helmet looks like this...
and it doesn't have something like this...

Giro Roc Loc integral retention device
you should be looking at something like this...
or this...
Specialized Chamonix

A new helmet such as a Giro Targa or a Specialized Chamonix will be about 33% lighter and will fit infinitely better than your old hardshell, so why not treat your brain to a new lid? After all nothing, not even your bicycle helmet, lasts for ever.

One promise: when you do get round to replacing your old one, you'll be amazed how much helmets have come on in the last 5 (or was it 10?) years since you last bought one.

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