The Helmet Update
Volume 43 - #1 - July 16, 2025
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Virginia Tech and Consumer Reports have updated ratings
Virginia Tech has updated their star ratings page to toughen the requirements. Almost all of the helmets being tested rated four or five stars, so the ratings no long distinguished the very best. And Consumer Reports has published a 2025 helmet ratings page.
Here is the list of helmets currently rated four or five stars by Virginia Tech and scored at four or five for impact protection by Consumer Reports:
- Bell Formula MIPS
- Bell Stratus MIPS
- Bontrager Charge WaveCel
- Bontrager Circuit WaveCel
- Bontrager Specter WaveCel
- Fox Racing Speedframe
- Giant Path MIPS
- Giant Relay MIPS
- Giant Rev Comp MIPS
- Giant Rev Comp MIPS
- Lazer Coyote Kineticore
- Specialized Align II MIPS
- Specialized Chamonix MIPS
- Specialized Mode MIPS
- Thousand Chapter MIPS
- Trek Quantum Wavecel
- Trek Rally Wavecel
- Trek Solstice MIPS
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