This year’s edition of the Tour de France has been a hotbed for new tech and nowhere is that more true than the helmets being used. Scanning around the heads of the peloton, three teams look to be debuting new helmets, EF Education-Easy Post , Intermaché-Wanty and Bahrain Victorious . 2024 looks to be the year of the helmet with EF Education-Easy Post already causing a stir with the POC Procen Air that blended time trial helmet design with road helmet comfort.
Visma-Lease a Bike were also at it when the team came close to breaking the internet with its new Giro TT helmet that flipped the script on helmet design as we knew it. Fortunately for the cycling fashion community, there has been nothing quite as radical spotted at this year's Tour. Both POC and Rudy Project have showcased new vented helmets whilst Uvex has gone down the route of a vented helmet with an optional aero cover.
EF Education-EasyPost’s new POC helmet The new helmet has a very pronounced edge between the front face and the top of the helmet (Image credit: Josh Croxton) When POC revealed the Procen Air at the early season races, it garnered a lot of media attention blurring the lines between a road and TT helmet. With the dust now settled and the Procen Air now a standard sight within the pro peloton POC has been at it again. The new helmet doesn’t look to have any labels on it but going by its heavily vented design it is safe to assume it is either an update to the existing Ventral or a new model tha.
