Well, I’ve been riding for over one year now. Riding almost every day. Yet, I have hardly ever used a helmet and when I have used a helmet, I’ve used by bicycle-helmet It is not good for unicycling, not comfortable and it offers no protection for your backhead and neck.
I want to buy a “unicycling helmet” that is comfortable and that protects my head well. Does anybody have any suggestions? What do you use?
I have not got a lot of money to spend, I would say that $70 is the maximum as i need other protective gear as well.
I would say that a helmet for BMX is good for UNI, since it’s kind of the same parts of the body beeing hit, and the same kind of body movement and sweat factor.
Of course, this is my own guess and opinion.
Edit: Where i took thease pictures from, they cost from 45-80$
The Giro Semi helmet is a nice one. It has the skate helmet kind of styling and head coverage. It covers the back of the head like a skate helmet. But the Semi is manufactured like a bike helmet. It’s lightweight like a bike helmet. It has the EPS foam with an in-mold plastic cover. Like bike helmets it is designed to take a single hard hit then you have to replace the helmet with a new one.
The other option is to get a skate helmet for skateboarding or BMX jumping. Those helmets are heavier than the Giro Semi, but they can also take multiple hits before they need to be replaced. They’re also cheaper than the Giro Semi. But they are heavy and they don’t allow much air flow.
Another choice is the Giro Xen, but it’s way more money than you want to spend. It covers more of the back of the head than regular bike helmets. It has lots of vents like bike helmets.
The second picture that lleberg posted is the Giro Semi MX helmet. The other two are skate or BMX jumping helmets.