{"id":2536,"date":"2011-03-25T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2011-03-25T19:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:52:46","slug":"new-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"New Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/vertigo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2537\" title=\"kask vertigo helemt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/vertigo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/vertigo-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/vertigo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/vertigo-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/vertigo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Up until now I have had just one helmet. It was a Specialized one I got on a breakage deal after smashing my previous one in Lithuania after having a head-on with a Dane (I braked too hard and went over the handlebars and over him). Being over 2 years old I decided it was probably time for a new one as I know they get affected by UV from the sun and the padding is rotting nicley.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycleshackonline.co.uk\">Cycle Shack<\/a> support I have access to a number of brands, one of which is KasK helmets who supply the SKY team. These high end Italian made helmets are the Rolls Royce of protection.<\/p>\n<p>After a trying on session (no mirror \u2013 shock horror) I decided on the top of the range<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kask.it\/kask\/en\/products?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=flypage-kask.tpl&amp;product_id=33&amp;category_id=11\"> MTB helmet the Vertigo\u00a0in white<\/a>, complete with leather chin strap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycleshackonline.co.uk\/Helmets__MTB.html\">http:\/\/www.cycleshackonline.co.uk\/Helmets__MTB.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2538\" title=\"SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/03\/SHE002VU-010-ELITE-BIANCO.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I picked it up today. It is simply the most comfortable helmet I have worn by a big margin and seems to have lots of ventilation. I&#8217;m not sure I want to test any of its other properties any time soon&#8230;&#8230;. but if I do ill let you know.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether the deal with Kask would extend to this swanky figher pilot style ski helmet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now I have had just one helmet. It was a Specialized one I got on a breakage deal after smashing my previous one in Lithuania after having a head-on with a Dane (I braked too hard and went over the handlebars and over him). Being over 2 years old I decided it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Helmet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kit","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}