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Wait, a video about mountain bikers having fun mountain biking? A crazy idea. What if this catches on?

I own a YT Izzo, which gets compared with these 2 also. I can't compare it to them, but fwiw I feel about the Izzo much the way Cooper feels about the Spur.

Looking forward to some good mother-daughter-riding content real soon, guys.

I'm intrigued by the gloves. My riding buddies are sick of me raving about how mtb winter gloves should have regular palms.

Leatt finally dialing down their branding to non-sponsored-adult levels.

Enjoying the mental image of all the mountain bike bros ironing their rain gear.

I try to follow helmet-concussion-safety developments pretty closely, and I share your skepticism that VT's testing is authoritative. More info here. Key point: VT "us[es] the methodology that MIPS uses: sticky headform, tight strap, severe anvil angle, rough grippy anvil, no neck. That methodology couples the headform more tightly to the helmet than it would be in the real world. It would be expected to favor the MIPS models, unlike the Snell Foundation's research that showed no benefit from MIPS."

Before opening this I knew this that there'd by something from Blackburn.

I guess you're right, but I think bike helmet makers have a responsibility to their customers that they've failed utterly to meet. It was, what, 3 years ago now maybe, that we first were told that the industry was working on an updated certification standard to test for preventing brain injury not just skull fractures. Still nothing.

You may be right, of course. Maddening that, several years into increased concussion awareness we're all still stuck fumbling in the dark on all these empirically answerable questions.