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Ok_Volume9271

dropped my brand-spanking new helmet onto concrete today, what's the verdict? Replace?

Brand-new helmet, road for only like 45 minutes before it fell during a coffee stop. Dude walks by, doesn't see my bike (partly my fault, it was indeed a bit in the way of a chair) and his shirt snags my drop bar, and the bike along with the helmet gets hurled onto the ground pretty hard. The bike falls on top of the helmet with one of the drops of the dropbar hooked inside the helmet and the helmet hits the concrete. It's basically sandwiched between the bike and concrete floor.

I know helmets are tested under high speed crashes with a head inside of them, but since my drop bar was technically inside the helmet as it fell, does this increase its impact? Is it safe to still ride? Don't see any visible cracks, but it did get scuffed a bit on the outershell.

Posted Jun 5, 2026, 4:55 AM UTC

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