Posted on June 20, 2022 by Cory Benson
This summer Kask is painting yellow stripes across 3328 of their lightweight, super vented Valegro road bike helmet, one each kilometer of the 2022 Tour de France. The Valegro isn’t a super new or super hi-tech lid. But it has been a popular choice for three Tour winners and those hottest July days. And this is one of the few special Tour de France edition products that you can ride year-round without someone asking why your helmet is covered in an odd mix of yellow, green & red polka dots…
The Kask Valegro actually debuted at the Tour de France five years ago, and was worn on the road to victory by three Sky riders: Chris Froome (2017), Geraint Thomas (2018) & Egan Bernal (2019).
In all that time, it’s still one of the lighter helmets out there, at a claimed 180g for a small.
And while it’s not as aero as the latest Protone Icon, Kask does say its aerodynamics were optimized in the wind tunnel to get the best possible cooling through its 37 vents while keeping drag to a minimum. But hot weather performance is definitely the Valegro’s strong suit.
Each helmet gets its own edition number corresponding to a kilometer in the 2022 Tour de France. Then you can do the sleuthing to see which stretch of French (or possibly Danish, Belgian, or Suisse) road that equates to?
There are 3328 Valegro Tour de France helmets being made and sold for $299 / 249€. So it’s not really an ultra-limited edition. But maybe the cooler part will be buying your helmet and finding where on the Tour it would be situated.
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 before several of these even had names in our industry.
Prior to that (and at times, concurrently), Cory worked as an Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, a IBD bike shop designer & consultant, an independent product designer, a bike shop mechanic, and a mountain biking instructor.
Based in the Czech Republic for over 15 years, Cory spends much of his time traveling around Europe, riding bikes, and meeting directly with many of cycling’s key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next. A technical off-road rider at heart since the 1990s, Cory’s cycling has evolved to cover everything from the wide range of riding aero road bikes on dirt roads to thrashing enduro bikes in the European bikeparks & trail centers, with plenty of XC, CX & gravel in between.
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Kask….”We price our helmets as if they have MIPS or similar technology, but they don’t”. “but but but hold on random internet person…we do wg11 testing and our test indicate blah blah..”
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