New Rudy Project Egos helmet is light, comfortable and easily adjustable

If you followed Team Bahrain Victorious at the Tour de France and the breakthrough performance of Fred Wright with his second place on Stage 13, you may have noticed that he was wearing a new helmet from the team’s helmet and glasses sponsor Rudy Project. 

It’s called the Egos and comes with a range of advanced features to up comfort and protection. Bahrain Victorious had the last pre-launch test of the Egos at the Tour, and the Egos has now been launched for the rest of us to purchase. It’s designed to be very well ventilated, but also incorporates cutting-edge features to ensure riders’ comfort and safety and Rudy Project says that it’s the most technologically advanced helmet in its range.

Enhanced venting

Most helmets can get uncomfortably hot in certain conditions. When you get hot, sweat from your forehead can easily drip down into your eyes. But the new Rudy Project Egos helmet incorporates a vented plastic insert across the brow between the shell and the padding. Called the 3D Airframe Band, this is designed to work with the large lower front vent to channel air to the rider’s forehead, so that you stay cooler.

There’s better cooling airflow across the top of the head too, thanks to the Egos’s dual density inner shell. Over the head’s crown, there’s a lower density EPS foam layer inside the shell attached to a polycarbonate carrier. This ensures great ventilation, with linear channels fore and aft to direct airflow. It also ups the safety of the Egos, as the softer, lower density EPS foam will deform more in a crash than the higher density foam used for the rest of the helmet shell.