POCVentral Air SPIN Road Helmet(Return to Product Page)

This is an amazing helmet that you can use for cross country, gravel, road and more. Light weight, good ventilation, easy to adapt and is true to size. I'll buy another in a different color!

This is an amazing helmet that you can use for cross country, gravel, road and more. Light weight, good ventilation, easy to adapt and is true to size. I'll buy another in a different color!

This helmet is light and comfortable, the color blue looks amazing. I have received many compliments on the color.

It is well ventilated yet very quiet. The matte grey looks good too!

Extremely comfortable fit. Very light straps that are easy to adjust. Excellent ventilation. It's also very well made without the rough edges I've seen on other helmets.

Likes - comfortable, unique color, quality build, tightening mechanism, air flow.

Dislikes - Makes head look like a mushroom, but that's ok, sort of.

I had a POC Octal helmet and this one is even better. The matte white is highly visible so that's the one I got.

After years switched from a Smith, which was always way too hot and this helmet fits great, is light and vents well. As another reviewer noted, will not hold Rudy, and a few other glasses.

Great helmet. The straps that go around the ears are fixed in length. It would be nice if those were adjustable. But otherwise great helmet.

It fits really well and looks really good on me.

This is the best fitting Helmet I have ever used. It does not move even if not strapped up. It is cool, lightweight and very comfortable. BEST HELMET FOR BIKING EVER!!!!

it's a helmet. I wear it on my head a per instructions. Perfect fit, light, well ventilated

I wear a size large, cause my noggin is big. This adjustability is great. And on long rides, I often forget I'm wearing the helmet. It feels nice.

Love this helmet. Beautiful color. I use it on all my rides.

As a multi-surface rider I was looking for a helmet that could do it all (i.e. aerodynamic and vented enough for the road while durable for gravel.) That said, I love how POC has thought through various design elements to make it the last helmet you'll ever need. In particular I love the sunglass garage and how it holds my shades snugly in my helmet while riding. I also love the innovations that POC has made like the SPIN technology integrated into the padding of the helmet, making the helmet that much simpler and cleaner. I wish the POC Ventral Air SPIN were a bit lighter weight (it feels just a bit on the heavy side of helmets these days). I also don't love the boxy look of the front, but guess I'll get used to that because so far, this helmet is great!

Using the POC sizing chart I ordered a medium. I also base this by all my other helmets that I own are medium from different manufacturers.

This helmet fits well on my head and the ventilation is great no issues there. The problem is that POC skimped on the strap lengths as the triangle around my ears does not fit and the chin strap is snug with no play at all. Another iss is that the helmet sits low on the head which great for protection but while wearing my Oakley sunglasses the helmet presses down glasses over the ear which made it extremely uncomfortable.

I wish I could return it but I used it for one hour. Actually I could not wait to get it off my head. Again I have no issues with other medium size helmets from other manufacturers.

Even MORE comfortable than my previous Giro Synthe, which I thought was as comfy as any helmet could possibly be. Which is actually a problem I can't feel it when it's on my head, so I have to check to make sure I have it on before starting a ride! Right out of the box, it fit me nearly perfectly, needing only a slight tightening of the chin strap. So far have done up to 90 miles in it without any aches or pains. The open design makes it easy to scratch my scalp when I get an annoying itch, no matter where.

I had a minor crash which caused a small dimple in the helmet, so I replaced it. Decided I should destroy the damaged helmet before tossing it into the trash, so I went at it with a hammer. It was gratifyingly difficult to destroy, a hatchet or a SawzAll would have been better choices!

I bought this helmet after a real bad crash that resulted in a concussion and lots of missing skin. I'm coming from a Giro Synthe Mips, which did its job and prevented more serious issues. I mention it as that is the helmet I'm most familiar with when comparing this one. There are a few things I like better about the POC Ventral Air Spin. It sits much lower on the head and provides better protection around the temples without adding any noticeable weight. Looking back, my face would have fared far better in that crash. It's also more comfortable, but that's probably just a personal head-shape thing. The Spin technology is nice to have, and it's integrated seamlessly. I've found that sometimes MIPS helmets have integrated the technology as an afterthought (newer helmets have resolved this) and can impede good airflow. I also really like the sunglass integration, I can throw my sunglasses up on my helmet quite easily. I don't know how people do this on other helmets with the tiniest sunglass holes. As for negatives... you'll probably not win any fashion contests, but I'm not sure I can say that about any helmet (I bought the orange one and cars do notice you... which is exactly what I wanted). Hopefully I'll never need the helmet, but I'm glad it's up there if I do.

While for winter riding, I'll stick to my Lazer ZI MIPS with the aeroshell, it took only one ride in 90-degree weather to make me a big fan of the POC Ventral Air SPIN for the opposite reason the air flow is terrific, and it feels even cooler than my Giro Aether MIPS (which is another wonderful helmet). I don't know how POC's SPIN technology stacks up against proven MIPS (and don't think the helmet lab at Virginia Tech has tested it yet), but I'm comfortable that my noggin is protected adequately. Admittedly, a good sale price prompted the purchase, but I'm glad I made it.

Nice fit straight out of the box. Light and comfortable, but the real key is the cooling. Never had a helmet that had this type of airflow.