Full face mountain bike helmet for skiing???

Looking for a Full Face Helmet to protect my pretty face.[/b]

However living in the UK its on average a million and one times easier to pick up Mountain Bike helmets cheaper than ski helmets, so, can anyone come up with any good reasons why i shouldnt get a bike helmet???


Cheers MATT

This has been done to death on previous threads. I believe it ended up with someone telling someone else that buying a bike helmet for skiing was like driving without a seatbelt on. Or something similar.

I'm almost certainly just being a retard, but i cant find it, i can see the bit on bicycle helmets (i.e. the little polystyrene ones), when you say u dont and wont wear helmets until you're made to. But nothing on full face downhill helmets.

I'd just like someone to explain the difference, the GIRO remedy seems to be completely the same except for some closed vents??

Pass, sorry.

They are designed to take different levels of stress. Bike helmets probably aren't as strong as snowsports helmets, so if you slam into a tree with a bike helmet it may well brake.

Plus, wearing a full face bike helmet, in my opinion, would look very stupid when skiing :lol:

you must be right that they'd be designed for different impacts, though I thought a downhill bike helmet would be designed to land on harder stuff, lots of rocks and trees around on those things.

a friend suggested temperatures might affect the gubbins inside? anyone got a definitive answer on that?

Are either heavier?

As for aesthetics, contradicting my earlier statement, i do not have a pretty face, covering it would not be a bad thing. Also i have done myself a few mischeifs on landings that a guard might solve.

dulcamara wrote:you must be right that they'd be designed for different impacts, though I thought a downhill bike helmet would be designed to land on harder stuff, lots of rocks and trees around on those things.

a friend suggested temperatures might affect the gubbins inside? anyone got a definitive answer on that?

temperatures? no, that's just silly )

Otherwise, you'd need to read the spec', one of the main problems with cycles helmets is they won't take repeated or intruded impacts which is why you need to be insane to wear one for skiing. However, that's exactly why (knowledgeable) downhill mountain bikers don't wear them either.

There seem to be two versions of the remedy, one mtb and one skiing, how different they are is hard to say, the two are only on sale in the US though where bizarrely there's an absence of proper standards so you could sell a bit of cardboard as a helmet which you can't in Europe. The MTB one is around in the UK.

You might have to ask Giro although I doubt you'd get a straight answer but it's worth a try.

Hmm right so can ignore temperature. The remedy ski one is all over the shop over here in the UK its really easy to get hold of.

Ok so maybe i should pay an extra few pence and get a proper one.

incidently... seriously do some downhill bikers not wear helmets, i've never seen one not wear a helmet??? some people are nuts