Joe Clark's Absurdly Hyperopinionated Cycling-Product Review

Welcome to a modest database of my reviews of cycling products, primarily helmets. Most originally appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper. New ones will appear here from time to time written especially for the Web. Gosh, how fabulous.

A word on qualifications: I have no design training. The only design work I've done per se has been in typography. However, I have read extensively on product design, I've written about it a bit (more than just in these articles), and, perhaps most importantly, I actually use all the products I review. Your mileage may, of course, vary.

Choose from:

• Feature stories:
• Gear for winter cycling
• Full-face bicycle helmets: What are they good for? And who needs 'em?
• Brief stories:
• NEW!The Bell Sports VistaLite 530 headlamp, best suited to the tropics
• The Bell Pump
• The CamelBak
• The Giro Terramoto, and occipital retention systems in general
• Virtual fingers: Winter cycling gloves

See also:

• Gearing up for winter: The hardware you need to bicycle through the winter
• Full-face bike helmets: With no standards to meet and no objective evidence they're even needed, why do full-face bike helmets even exist, let alone cost so much?