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Coming soon to a head near you? The recycled urban cycle helmet

Re-Cycle range from Dashel uses recycled plastic and can be recycled into new helmets once at the end of its product life.

The Re-Cycle range uses recycled plastic and can be recycled into new helmets once at the end of its product life.

It's not unusual for brands to become more eco-conscious, especially when it comes to a plastics-heavy product like helmets. We've seen quite a few different ideas with cardboard helmets being one of the strangest. Dashel, though, is taking the recycling route with their new urban helmet, the Re-Cycle.

The new urban helmet aims to be “low impact at the point of manufacture and produce very little waste at the end of life”. To achieve this, Dashel says that the helmet is made using recycled plastics and can be recycled again at the end of the helmet’s life.

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Dashel Re-Cycle Urban 1

If you register your new helmet and do end up recycling it, Dashel say they will give you money off a subsequent purchase.

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The Re-Cycle Urban helmet is made in the UK and features five air vents to help with cooling. There’s a vegan leather carrying loop at the back of the helmet for attaching a rear light.

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Internally, the Re-Cycle has an EPS foam body to which the re-cycled plastic shell is attached. There’s also a nifty magnetic Fidlock clasp that Dashel says helps to avoid pinched skin.

Dashel Re-Cycle Urban 4

The padding is removable and washable. A range of these pads come with the helmet to allow you to tailor the fit. Everything comes in a reusable drawstring backpack.

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The shell comes in four colours and the helmet can be bought for £79 in Small (55-57cm) 360g, Medium (57-59cm) 380g, Large (60-62cm) 430g sizes.

dashel.co.uk/re-cycle

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RoubaixCube | 3 years ago
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But that £80 pricetag?

You can get a kask mojito for less occasionally and its superior in almost every way. Comfort, ventillation & looks... 

If they can cut away some more of the plastic for more ventillation and lower the price then it would be more appealing other than trying to sell it on a one trick pony "Its green" "Its recyclable" "Its made from recycled tat" gimmick.

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mdavidford | 3 years ago
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I thought they'd just taken a horse riding hat and drilled a few holes in the top. That's a form of recycling, right?

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zero_trooper | 3 years ago
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Looks like one of those French WW1 helmets?

Pretty nifty design, but not in my (XXL) size  2  Looks like I'm stuck with my Bern classic. The helmet that, according to my kids, makes me look like an extra out of Star Wars: Rogue One.

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ktache replied to zero_trooper | 3 years ago
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I remember seeing a a war documentary that the French designed a helmet that was very complex to make, the British adopted something that would not look out of place in the 100 years war, and the Germans came up with the better covering, most effective helmet that was easier to make.  If anyone has noticed the US has now adopted the german style Stahlhelm or "coal scuttle" helmet, made in kevlar.

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Gus T replied to zero_trooper | 3 years ago
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zero_trooper wrote:

Looks like one of those French WW1 helmets?

Pretty nifty design, but not in my (XXL) size  2  Looks like I'm stuck with my Bern classic. The helmet that, according to my kids, makes me look like an extra out of Star Wars: Rogue One.

Funny, I waxs thinking that it looked like a WW2 russian helmet

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