Australian Triathlete - 01.08.2018

60 | AustrAliAn triAthlete

Product Tested:

Kask

Mistral Helmet

tech talk

R OAD TEST

text And photogrAphy by the test lab

control and, equally important, higher

safeguards over intellectual property.

While it does mean the prices are higher

than some other brands, there is no doubt,

when it comes to protecting your head,

the piece of mind in knowing that the

quality of your helmet is top notch means

the world.

From a triathlon point of view, the

helmet that first got our attention was the

Bambino TT helmet, now called the

‘Bambino Pro’. It was the first helmet that

brought ‘snub tailed’ time trial helmets to

the masses. While other brands were

making them for their ‘Tour’ riders, they

were impossible to buy. As such the

Bambino became the hot helmet to have

and we rated it number one in our tt

helmet shoot out from about four years

ago. We still use our Bambino to this day,

K

ASK Cycling helmets are now

in Australia! Well, that’s not to

say they haven’t been available

in Australia before now, but

they have now set up an office right here

in Melbourne to look after their growing

market share and to showcase the full

range of helmets available to the public.

In fact, this is only KASK’s third office,

with one in Charlotte, USA and the

home office in Italy. This shows just how

important they view Australia’s triathlon

and cycling community.

To say this young family company lives

and breathes helmets is an understatement,

and to be honest, we had no real idea how

expansive their range of helmets was.

KASK have helmets to cover not only

cycling and triathlon but mountain biking,

horse riding, skiing and snowboarding, and

also a full range of construction and safety

helmets. It’s very impressive just how

comprehensive the KASK range is.

Born in 2004 in the Italian city of

Bergamo, the European hotbed of cycling

brands, KASK is probably best known for

equipping the SKY cycling team. It is this

association with SKY that has seen the

rapid development of the cutting edge

helmets that have put KASK at the

forefront of the helmet industry. They

pride themselves on meticulous

development from design, aerodynamic

testing and a classic Italian flare.

They genuinely want their helmets to be

not only the best performing helmet on

the market but also the most striking and

classy looking. Impressively, all KASK

helmets are still manufactured in Italy,

which allows for a greater level of quality

VERSATILITY

MEETS

PERFORMANCE