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Giro Vanquish MIPS

Giro Vanquish MIPS
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2 / 5

Too expensive for the quality

- Eric-Jan, 23 December, 2021

I chose this helmet because, as a spectacle wearer, it still gives me a sunshade and allows me to see everything. I rode several hundred kilometres with it to my complete satisfaction. But after a few months I was in Luxembourg and during a descent at about 60-70 km/h I had to look back for traffic. In the process, the visor let go and it flapped up into the bushes on the opposite side of the road. Searched but untraceable. Giro says it's not due to the helmet. Yet I now read from others that the visor has come off. Still a shame because the visor is no longer available separately (sold out, which makes you think). All in all, an unsatisfactory result for this not cheap helmet.

Pros & Cons

Beautiful design
Easy for spectacle wearers
Magnets are too weak to secure the screen
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2 / 5

Poor design, visor magnets malfunction when fastened upside down

- Louis, 13 August, 2020

I wanted to love this helmet. It looks great, and appears to have a practical design concept that allows you to take off the visor from it's magnetic fixings, and affix it upside down to the top of the helmet to ride without the visor covering your eyes. On delivery of the helmet I was really impressed, the design is slick, and the helmet fitted great (I've a 62.5cm head, so just fitted the Large). I was excited to try it out. On my first ride with the helmet it was an exceptionally hot day in the UK, being 30 degrees. Of course being an aero helmet I was expecting it to not have the best ventilation. Cycling along at speed, it is fine. But when you are going uphill, or stuck in traffic you heat up very quickly. Beads of sweat were starting to run down my face, and I was taking off the visor from it's magnetic fixings to wipe my face and reattaching it in place. I got on with the ride, and thought 1) most days aren't this hot here, and 2) if I'm using this in an event like a 70.3 or 140.6 I'll be well ventilated at pace. So was happy enough. However the next ride I tested the helmet was on another hot day. Midway through the ride I got tired of taking off the visor to cool down, so I stopped at the roadside, took off the visor and attached it upside down to the helmet on it's inbuilt magnetic fixings, as the helmet and visor is designed to do... I set off cycling down the road, and was at some pace, when I had to look over my shoulder to check for rear approaching vehicles when I saw a pot hole approaching. At this point the draft wind caught the visor, pulling it off it's fixings, and visor then fell to the tarmac and skidded down the road. The visor was scratched right across the line of sight, and frustratingly unusable. It could well have been run over by a car, or even caused an accident if I was riding in a group. At this point, after the failure of the product, I lost faith in it. The magnetic fixings on the top of the helmet are not sufficient to hold the visor in place when it's flipped and fixed on top, as it's designed to do. It will not hold the visor in place, and you risk loosing it, as i did, and it getting damaged. The magnets do not align and secure the visor effectively when the visor is flipped upside down. I have returned the helmet and received a refund.

Pros & Cons

Great Fit
Looks great
Poor Ventilation
Poor Visor Design