YAKKAY “SMART TWO” is a new helmet in the design awarded helmet concept. The Smart Two helmet is a modern classic with a YAKKAY designed stainless steel buckles. You can wear Smart Two with all of YAKKAY’s stylish covers.

Sizes: medium (51-56cm), large (55-59cm)
Black PVC shell. EPS inner shell designed for max ventilation
5 vents Stainless steel buckles
Weight medium 230g – large 250g

Certified EN1078 (EU) and CPSC (US)

Now in stock, the ever popular Yakkay helmets… as seen above!

On the way I stopped by Albany… though only for about 30 minutes to see if a particular bike I spied on Craigslist was still available, a nice old beautiful looking Raleigh with rod brakes; unfortunately, it was not available anymore… still a pleasant detour anyway.  Definitely a place I want to explore some more.  I have to say I really thought Albany was quite beautiful… though, the part I saw did not have much in the way of biking.  So on with my trek up north through the Adirondacks… which of course, were beautiful as the sun was setting down for the evening; and on I drove on through the night.

The next day was spent learning some of this Super Bass song and Thriller dance number for the reception, getting a tux and a small tour of the town of Plattsburgh.  Of course we rocked the dancing… so I don’t really need to say much about that.  Plattsburgh itself is really a pleasantly located town right on Lake Champlain, across from Burlington Vermont.  It has had its bout with quite a bit of flooding earlier in the year and was working on recovering parts of the town still, though downtown looked pretty much untouched… it is a little up from the lake.  It had that nice old small town America Main Street feel in the downtown area with a few impressive statues.  Though, looking at the town through Cycle Chap glasses, what caught my eye and impressed me more than anything was the bike paths all over the place.  Now I know bike paths are not anything unheard of, but the amounts of them in a city that has a population of just under twenty thousand really impressed me.  I have not seen anything this impressive in any of the towns around Boston.

Plattsburgh is not only on Lake Champlain, it also has a river going through it, the Saranac River, in their downtown area.  I don’t recall seeing a similar set up of a city in the U.S. with development on both sides of a river (with it being the same city, I know Boston and Cambridge have a that set up… but they are different cities).  There was a great bike path up the hill above the river going through down town by their beautifully designed city hall and monument out front overlooking the river and lake.  The path eventually wound its way down to the river below through a nice wooded section, right downtown still though.  I think the city has a great opportunity to build upon the natural beauty of the river and create quite an outstandingly attractive downtown.

The weekend of my friend’s wedding has a lot of history going on with it.  Of course September 11^th 2001, I was originally going to be in NYC for the weekend actually.  Plattsburgh has it’s own little bit of history tied to that date in 1814, the battle of Plattsburgh occurred.  The town on Sunday was in full swing into the celebration of the Battle.  Even the transport museum had a nice display of some great old bicycles (see pictures below).  In the town hall they actually had a file cabinet drawer from one of the WTC buildings and a piece of the outside of the building on display.  Also it was a weekend that a great new family was created.

And yes, those are wooden wheels on that!

Also, here is a little design I came up with a week or so ago… that I hope will soon find its way in some form to a t-shirt!

Here is a link to an interview with her at BOUF.COM.

Yakkay comes to you from the biking capital of the world, Copenhagen Denmark.  They have designed an ingenious helmet that can make one helmet many different stylish variants.  The base is the Smart One helmet, upon which the covers are designed to fit over. No need to have several helmets if you like several of their styles… as I do myself, just purchase extra covers.

We have in stock now the Milano Blue Denim (large and medium), Tokyo Blue Technic (medium), Tokyo Color Stripe (large), Paris Black Oilskin (medium and large), Paris Blue Red (large and medium), Tokyo New Jazz (medium) and Tokyo Flower (medium) helmets along with the Cambridge Check (large), Cambridge Gold (medium), Tokyo Blue Stripe (large) and Luzern (Black large and medium; White in medium)covers!

Worry not no bears or other animals were harmed in the making of this fine cover.  This beauty is only available as a cover and we have in stock both the medium and large sizes in black, and medium in white.  Due to the materials involved in producing this cover the price is slightly more than your average cover price.

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All of Sawako’s helmets come with a very handy size adjustment dial on the back to ensure a quality fit.  These beauties are not only well designed but well made.  Like Leopard, the Crocodile is made from leather and has it’s own special feel to it.  We bring you Sawako’s latest design straight from the depths of great design comes this fashionable helmet looking smart, and from your head (whilst biking anyway) it should never part.  All of her helmets fit a size range of 54-58cm.