A good-looking helmet can be hard to find, unless you make a beeline for the Scott Lin. And its beauty isn’t purely on the surface – it runs through the whole construction of the well-thought out lid.
With a meaty 18 vents and some deep internal channeling that beauty runs deep, but the real twinkle in the eye is with the inclusion of MIPS technology, a low friction layer that sits between the padding and the EPS liner which, upon impact, allows to the shell to rotate relative to your head, thereby reducing the force of the bump.
Being one of our best helmets for mountain biking, it’s technology that many other manufacturers charge a fair amount more for…
Price: £79.99, available from Scott.
