This summer time Kask is portray yellow stripes throughout 3328 of their light-weight, tremendous vented Valegro street bike helmet, one every kilometer of the 2022 Tour de France. The Valegro isn’t a brilliant new or tremendous hi-tech lid. However it has been a preferred selection for 3 Tour winners and people hottest July days. And this is without doubt one of the few particular Tour de France version merchandise you could experience year-round with out somebody asking why your helmet is roofed in an odd mixture of yellow, inexperienced & purple polka dots…
Kask Valegro restricted version Tour de France helmet
The Kask Valegro really debuted on the Tour de France 5 years in the past, and was worn on the street to victory by three Sky riders: Chris Froome (2017), Geraint Thomas (2018) & Egan Bernal (2019).
Tech particulars
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In all that point, it’s nonetheless one of many lighter helmets on the market, at a claimed 180g for a small.
And whereas it’s not as aero as the newest Protone Icon, Kask does say its aerodynamics had been optimized within the wind tunnel to get the absolute best cooling via its 37 vents whereas protecting drag to a minimal. However sizzling climate efficiency is certainly the Valegro’s sturdy swimsuit.
Restricted version Kask Valegro Tour de France – Pricing & availability
Every helmet will get its personal version quantity equivalent to a kilometer within the 2022 Tour de France. Then you are able to do the sleuthing to see which stretch of French (or presumably Danish, Belgian, or Suisse) street that equates to?
There are 3328 Valegro Tour de France helmets being made and offered for $299 / 249€. So it’s not likely an ultra-limited version. However perhaps the cooler half will probably be shopping for your helmet and discovering the place on the Tour it will be located.
Cory Benson is the EU Tech Editor of Bikerumor.com.
Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking on and off for over 25 years, since earlier than a number of of those even had names in our business.
Previous to that (and at occasions, concurrently), Cory labored as an Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, a IBD bike store designer & guide, an impartial product designer, a motorcycle store mechanic, and a mountain biking teacher.
Based mostly within the Czech Republic for over 15 years, Cory spends a lot of his time touring round Europe, using bikes, and assembly instantly with lots of biking’s key European product builders, business specialists & tastemakers for an in-depth assessment of what’s new, and what’s coming subsequent. A technical off-road rider at coronary heart because the Nineteen Nineties, Cory’s biking has developed to cowl the whole lot from the big selection of using aero street bikes on grime roads to thrashing enduro bikes within the European bikeparks & path facilities, with loads of XC, CX & gravel in between.
