11 Bike Helmets You Should Never, Ever Wear

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Putting lights on a helmet that looks like a beret just makes it easier for cars to hit you. On purpose.

Every attempt to make a bike helmet look "fashionable" leads to disaster. Yes, this helmet looks like a bucket hat. A giant bucket hat. With a chinstrap. Erick Sermon wept.

Even crash-test dummies are laughing at you. No, not those guys.

Your Dyno cruiser is not a Harley-Davidson, and you are not a Hell's Angel. Please try again.

There is nothing wrong with an aerodynamic helmet, provided you are in the final time trial of the Tour de France. And even those guys look silly.

Unless your bicycle is an F-14 Tomcat, you'll look like Maverick trying to get to Miramar. For only $960, too!

First of all, a crushable helmet seems to defeat the purpose. Also, you look like a safety-obsessed chimney sweep.

Congratulations, you have made the local tweed ride look even more ridiculous than it did already.

You know why Sherlock Holmes could get away with wearing a deerstalker cap? Because it was the 1800s, he did cocaine, and he was A FICTIONAL CHARACTER.

Sure, you might be safer in the case of a crash. But who will save you from Gallagher?

Only if you wear it with this.