Bell Spark Mips Bicycle Helmet Matte Black UA 53-60cm

Manufacturer : Bell

Along with its stylish design, increased protection and integrated visor, the Spark features excellent ventilation, a perfect fit and the added protection of MIPS® technology. A helmet that gives ambitious riders even more confidence.

Features:

Fusion molded polycarbonate shell
Ergo Fit™
Integrated viewfinder
No-Twist Tri-Glides™ seat belt guide
Sweat Guide™ padding
Integrated MIPS®

Technology:

MIPS™: A sliding plane system within a helmet designed to reduce head damage or the amount of energy transferred to the head from impacts. MIPS is a brain protection system. Rotational motion can cause brain injuries. The low friction layer allows 10-15 mm sliding motion in each direction, reducing rotational motion to the brain during impact.
Your brain is everything to you and it’s very sensitive, so protecting it is very important. Giro helmets with the Mips Brain Protection System offer more comprehensive protection that can help reduce the energy transmitted to your brain in the event of an impact. Less energy transferred to your brain during a crash means more protection for you.
Mips is a patented Brain Protection System (BPS) found on almost every Giro helmet model. It adds a measure of protective ability beyond the helmet’s outer shell and impact-absorbing foam lining in certain impacts, and helps reduce rotational motion transmitted to the brain, especially in the first critical milliseconds. That’s why we recommend looking for the yellow dot on Giro helmets.
Two milliseconds. That's 100 times faster than the blink of an eye! Yet during a crash, that fraction of a second could be the most important moment of your life, because that's the entire time it takes to sustain a brain injury.
When a helmet equipped with the Mips Brain Protection System is subjected to an angled impact, the low friction layer inside the helmet (shown in yellow in this image) allows the helmet to move. This movement during these critical first .0002 seconds can reduce the amount of rotational motion (a combination of rotational energy and rotational forces) transmitted to the brain, reducing the risk of minor and serious brain injuries. It is important to recognize that no helmet, including Mips-equipped helmets, can prevent all possible injuries. But it does reduce the energy transmitted to the brain.
Mips BPS is scientifically proven to reduce rotational motion from angled impacts when applied to a helmet. And every Mips-equipped helmet model is thoroughly inspected and tested against global standards as well as Mips’ own standards to ensure proper operation.
More than 25,000 tests to date.
Top scores in independent testing from third-party labs.
Each helmet model is validated prior to production approval, with rotational forces necessarily reduced by at least 10% compared to comparable helmets without Mips technology.
Developed in consultation with doctors, scientists, biomechanical engineers and riders.
But we don’t take these results or the technology lightly, which is why we continue to test helmets in our DOME Test Lab and in partnership with Mips to optimize the performance of the Mips Brain Protection System and its integration into our standard.
In addition to mandatory testing to meet leading global standards, we have set up three separate test rigs specifically to assess the helmets’ performance when subjected to rotational motion. Based on evidence from Mips and independent laboratories, as well as the results of our own testing, we believe that Giro helmets equipped with the Mips Brain Protection System can provide an additional measure of protection in certain impacts without compromising other performance benefits. That’s why we choose to include the Mips Brain Protection System in almost every helmet we make.

ErgoFit™: The Bell Helmet replacement Ergo Fit system fits tightly around the head and allows the wheel to be adjusted up/down on the Occipital Lobe (the bump at the back of the head where it meets the neck). It is an evolution of the previously used clamping system, the ErgoDial. It now has an improved dial feel and function (no longer requiring pressure to turn) and is very stylish and less bulky.

Scope of Delivery:

1 x Bell Spark Mips Helmet Matte Black (53-60)

Weight :

Bell Spark Mips Helmet (54-61): 365gr