Bell Introduces New Full-10 Spherical DH Helmet
Bell's new Full-10 DH full face helmet launches today, nearly a decade after its very successful predecessor, the Full 9, made its debut. The Full-10 is priced at $650, and now occupies the top spot in Bell's helmet lineup, with a carbon shell, improved ventilation, and laundry list of modern safety features.
Those safety features include the addition of Spherical Technology, which is essentially a ball and socket design that uses two separate layers of foam connected by elastomers that allow the two layers to move independently. The idea is that during a crash the outer layer is able to rotate enough to help dissipate a portion of the impact force, reducing the amount of stress that reaches the brain. That outer layer uses EPS foam to deal with higher speed impacts, and the inner layer is EPP, a lower density foam to handle the slower speed impacts.
Those safety features include the addition of Spherical Technology, which is essentially a ball and socket design that uses two separate layers of foam connected by elastomers that allow the two layers to move independently. The idea is that during a crash the outer layer is able to rotate enough to help dissipate a portion of the impact force, reducing the amount of stress that reaches the brain. That outer layer uses EPS foam to deal with higher speed impacts, and the inner layer is EPP, a lower density foam to handle the slower speed impacts.
Bell Full-10 Details
• Mips Spherical
• Carbon shell
• 4 color options
• Sizes: XS/S, M, L, XL/XXL
• Certifications: NTA 8776 (e-bike), CPSC, CE EN 1078:2012,
ASTM F1952-15, DH ASTM F2032-15 BMX
• Weight: 1092 grams (M, actual)
• MSRP: $650 USD
• www.bellhelmets.com
• Mips Spherical
• Carbon shell
• 4 color options
• Sizes: XS/S, M, L, XL/XXL
• Certifications: NTA 8776 (e-bike), CPSC, CE EN 1078:2012,
ASTM F1952-15, DH ASTM F2032-15 BMX
• Weight: 1092 grams (M, actual)
• MSRP: $650 USD
• www.bellhelmets.com
As for ventilation, Bell equipped the Full-10 with the extra-fancy sounding Thermal Exchange Airflow System (TEAS). The system involves channels in the foam at the front of the helmet that are designed to keep air moving over a rider's head and out the larger rear vents.
The cheek pads are affixed in place by magnets, which makes removing them for cleaning (or after an accident with the helmet still on a rider's head) an easy process. Two extra sets of cheek pads are included to help achieve the perfect fit. Other features include an integrated breakaway camera mount, and a titanium D-ring closure system.
There Full-10 is available in four sizes (XS/S, M, L, XL/XXL) and there are four different color schemes to choose from. The actual weight of a size medium is 1092 grams.
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It'd be the helmet I'd be riding right now if the xs size was a bit smaller
I agree.
Do you feel safer/more protected now, knowing that the helmet met a minimum crash requirement, than you did before knowing that it held this certification?
Or you have experience with the helmet, and your not just throwing out random props on how it looks?
Here’s the important but bit, forget the hype, forget the fancy colours, forget the random recommendations from keyboard warriors that prolly haven’t even worn the damn helmet (looking at you @ShredTilBed).
Make sure the helmet fits you, and you’re wearing it, and wearing it properly.
Everyone’s head is differently shaped, some have loads of hair, some, little light on top, some, smooth as a god damn egg. So unless you’re trying the damn thing on, and it fits you, you have no idea, and neither do any of us gobsmaked clowns.
It’s pretty easy to tell when you’ve got the damn thing on your head if it feels like it’s gonna be a bit more ventilated, or maybe you’ve got a lions mane for hair, in which case, none of this matters, it’s gonna be hot.
God speed out there
3 x TLD carbon D4 or this....
I get your point of course.
In the meantime the Full-9 carbon has been on sale for not much cash recently - as low as $100 - and the retail for that is something like $450. That’s a hell of a retail increase from the full 9 to the full 10.
Imagine spending $700 on a helmet only to have to discard it after a few weeks due to crashing on it.
Ugly helmet, no matter how it protects. Plenty of other better looking and just as protective options out there (TLD, POC, 100%..)
just don't buy it, right from the beginning
*still dumb
Nice