“Yes, in that study they used cadavers to test the safety of helmets. They impacted the cadavers’ helmeted heads at 10 milliseconds. Allegedly, if you’re an inmate in China, the government can use your body for science. It’s why there are plenty of experiments with Chinese cadavers.”
Luca Viano, product director of Italian brand Kask, knows everything about what goes into that often neglected but essential item of cranial cycling wear – even the lost souls whose bodies keep us alive. The Italian company doesn’t rely on the dead. But it does collaborate with Ineos Grenadiers, nay Team Sky, which projected them into the consciousness and upon the heads of UK riders. Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Sir Bradley Wiggins all wore Kask helmets to Paris while adorned in le maillot jaune. It’s a progressive brand that has just gone public with a testing protocol that it hopes will show why it’s foregone arguably the standout helmet-safety development of the past 10 to 15 years…
Questioning rotational dogma
Look at your helmet and, if it’s not Kask, there’s a good chance it features a yellow circle with the word ‘MIPS’ in black. A helmet equipped with MIPS, the multi directional impact protection system, features a low friction layer that allows the helmet to slide relative A helmet shell is moulded from a flat sheet of polycarbonate to your head, resulting in a reduction of the rotational motion that may
