Best hot weather aero helmet, OLY?

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Florida tri season, mucho humidity, bald athlete, OLY distance.
Aero helmet or not? If so, which one y why?

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Lazer Tardiz has an “aqua plug” at the top of the helmet that lets you pour water in so it goes on your head.

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It’s 25 miles, what’s that gonna take you, an hour, hour ten? Just ride, bro. One 20 oz bottle on the ride will be plenty of fluids.

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In the full aero category, consider the Rudy Wingspan. You can adjust the venting, and the large openings in the front and tail make it easy to squirt in water.

Also consider the Specialized Evade. Almost as good as a long tail helmet, but ventilated like a road lid.

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Florida tri season, mucho humidity, bald athlete, OLY distance.
Aero helmet or not? If so, which one y why?

Fastest aero helmet you can find. If you can’t visit a wind tunnel pick one among the known fast helmets that fit nicely against your pack in your aero position.

The aero-helmet heat thing has been tested and does not affect core temp or sweat rate or performance in 20 minute hot time trials.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236090499_Effect_of_an_aero-dynamic_helmet_on_head_temperature_core_temperature_and_cycling_power_compared_to_a_traditional_helmet

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It’ll only be available later this year, but the Giro Synthe ( http://www.giro.com/eu_en/synthe.html ) is allegedly aero and with good cooling.

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I live in the Tampa area and just purchased an Air Attack, WORTH IT. I can litterally look down for a second or two and feel the air going in almost like an A/C. Doesn’t “look” like it would be cool but, trust me it is.

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Agreed with any aero helmet, with that short of a distance it doesn’t matter. I race in TX and LA with a black Giro Advantage 2, never had a problem. Come out of T2 and dump some water on your head if you feel hot.

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I’m thinking of going with a Wingspan to replace my aging Giro Adv2. The venting options look really nice, especially in the midwest where you’re 50F in early May then 4 weeks later 90F and humid June. But I agree, that in a sprint, it doesn’t really matter.

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I’m a heavy sweater, and I love my LG P-09… it’s super cool and comfortable. There is a plug for the front that you can leave in or take out – I race with it open.

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I can vouch for the Wingspan being ok for hot, humid weather. YMMV on what you perceive as hot, but you can find a good solution for you with the 6 different combinations of vents on the Wingspan.

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I’m thinking of going with a Wingspan to replace my aging Giro Adv2. The venting options look really nice, especially in the midwest where you’re 50F in early May then 4 weeks later 90F and humid June. But I agree, that in a sprint, it doesn’t really matter.

I know you take advice pretty well from those on ST. So I’ll give you this bit, don’t do it! The Advantage 2 is consistently in the top 2 or 3 helmets we test, EVERY time. It may not be the fastest but it is always very very close. The Wingspan hardly gets tested anymore unless it is the baseline. It is really not very good at all.

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Florida tri season, mucho humidity, bald athlete, OLY distance.
Aero helmet or not? If so, which one y why?

Fastest aero helmet you can find. If you can’t visit a wind tunnel pick one among the known fast helmets that fit nicely against your pack in your aero position.

The aero-helmet heat thing has been tested and does not affect core temp or sweat rate or performance in 20 minute hot time trials.

http://www.researchgate.net/...a_traditional_helmet

This^^^^^^^^a million times THIS! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Sage advice, to be sure
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Counter-intuitive results from that study, but then again, Florida heat and humidity are exogenous factors not considered by the study.

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All of the currently available aero helmets will be cool while you are riding (air will be flowing through it), the problem is when you stop riding that they all get really hot really quick. Tim

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Counter-intuitive results from that study, but then again, Florida heat and humidity are exogenous factors not considered by the study.

Almost no triathletes put out as much power (and heat) as the athletes in that study, either.

One of the athletes in the study is going to kona, another is a winning professional bike racer. big watts. much heat.

and the guy going to kona doesn’t put out as many watts as he did during the study, he was bike racer only then =)

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Why would you stop during a short race? Or any race except to get special needs?

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I would only stop to fix a flat (and this has happened). The first thing I do after getting off the road is to take off the helmet. Tim

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Powys taken. Always good to test the data.