Giro Me2 Infant Bike Helmet
|
List Price: Our Price: $20.50 Category: Sports See more product details |
|---|
(Click here)
Description of Giro Me2 Infant Bike Helmet
The Me2 features thoughtful touches that parents adore and kids appreciate, like simple strap guides, an adjustable fit system and a buckle that won't pinch soft skin. It's the perfect start to a lifelong bond with helmets.Make sure your kids have a fun and safe ride with the Giro Me2 bike helmet for infants and toddlers. In addition to several colorfully fanciful designs--including yellow chicks, aviator pigs, pink bunnies, and red duck and goose--the helmet features 20 vents (protected with a built-in bug net) to help to keep your child's head cool. It also features Giro's Mini-Loc fit system with simple strap guides that enable your kid to put on the helmet without pinching skin. There's soft padding inside that feels great and a built-in visor for a bit of shade. This helmet is adjustable, enabling it to grow with your child. It's sized for infants and toddlers with heads measuring 18.75 to 20.5 inches in diameter.
 20 vents with built-in bug netting keep your child's head cool. |  Giro's Mini-Loc fit system features simple strap guides. |
Fitting a Helmet
Here are some guidelines to getting the best fit for a bike helmet.
- Eyes: The rim of the helmet should be up to 1 to 2 finger widths above the eyebrows
- Ears: The straps should form a V under just beneath the ear lobe
- Mouth: When the rider opens her mouth, the buckle should feel snug on the chin and the helmet should hug the head
About Giro
Working late nights in his garage, designer/bike racer Jim Gentes created the first lightweight adult cycling helmet in 1985. Friends at NASA helped tune the final helmet shape and vent placement, and the result was the Giro Prolight, a helmet that was better looking than traditional designs while offering a superior fit and still met the industry's toughest safety standards. Plus, it was half the weight of traditional helmets. Since then, Giro has advanced its helmets, many of which have set the standards for styling, function, and innovation for progressive, performance-oriented riders on dirt, pavement, and snow. Giro helmets are worn by millions of riders, cyclists, skiers, and snowboarders around the world. Young-bloods and old-timers; hard-cores, heshers, and hipsters; rookies, experts, and a few regular Joes too--in fact, pretty much anyone that appreciates superior fit and function, cutting edge styling, and the very best ideas you get in a helmet.
Sports reviews of Giro Me2 Infant Bike Helmet
Customer Review: Safety concern. Cracked after one drop off bike - no baby in it.
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I bough this because it's for infant, it's cute, and most of all it's a Giro. I assume this would be the safest bet for my baby. However, after one drop from the bike onto the ground (baby not in it), it heavily cracked on the edge and got dinged on the top. I called Giro custmer service raising concern about the safety of helmet and was told the helmet was meant to crack easily even if it's a small bump. And their warranty won't cover anything if there's crash although in this case, it's just a drop from the bike. Of course they insist that their product meets all government standards.
I have both Giro and Bell Adult helmets for many years. From time to time, they got accidently dropped off the bikes but never caused any cracks before. I found it hard to believe Giro's argument that it's meant to break easily to protect the baby. So I did a side by side comparison of both Giro's adult helmet and Giro's infant helmet. Yes, they are different:
1. baby's helmet is constructed of thinner foam than the adult one, especially the lower back side, and that's where my helmet cracked.
2. the top part of the helmet - the part with cute patterns, is made of very soft plastic. You can squish it easiy with a finger and it feels like an empty plastic coke bottle. Versus the adult version is made of very rigid shell like plastic that I cannot finger squish it at all. This seems to explain why this baby helmet got dinged very easily on the top.
Here I think Giro needs to explain why they made their baby's helmet flimsier than the adult version instead of insisting that they meet all standards. Espeicially we know nowadays government are not always reliable at watching for public safety.
Customer Review: Not Safe!!! Easily Comes Apart!!!!!!!
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I will admit that the helmet is very cute, adjusts easiest and seems safest vs other styles I looked at, BUT if you look on the inside where the helmet shell attaches to strap you will find the one MAJOR flaw I'm talking about. The helmet shell and strap are attached by sticky velcro... sticky velcro attached to smooth plastic. I found this out after I took my two year old daughter for a ride one day and noticed that the helmet was gone and and strap was still on her head ( the velcro tabs stuck together, but the sticker wasn't strong enough to hold onto the plastic strap)!!! I'm talking about velcro that sticks onto whatever object by a sticker (like the kind you can buy at home depot on a spool). The straps are only attached in two places by this velcro I'm speaking of. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE before you buy this, go into a store and check this design flaw out for yourself. I took this helmet back ASAP right after I found this out. It's for the safety of your kid!!!!Customer Review: If an infant can pull this apart, it's not going to help in an accident
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I was really disappointed with the construction of this helmet. It is basically held together by velcro. Within minutes my child figured out how to get it off his head and pretty much did so every time I put it on. Sometimes the ring would remain around his head (or neck!) sometimes he'd pull the whole thing off. Within a month all the parts were falling apart. The velcro doesn't stay stuck. The adjustment doesn't really work on the smallest setting, and the fabric came unglued. I bought a differrent helmet, since this one seemed useless and I want one that will stay on his head, expecially if we advance to a seat not just the trailer. I would not recommend it to anyone.Customer Review: waste of money
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I bought this helmet and the first day I took my son out with it the padding on the front of it came off. It's just glued and it came right off. Also, it kept going in his eyes and he hated it. Would not recommend it to anyone.