Lazer Vento KinetiCore Helmet

Lazer Vento Kineticore helmet offers advanced crash protection technology, aerodynamic design, and lightweight construction

This helmet as a 5-star Virginia Tech rating for helmet protection. Instead of MIPS, it has an integrated Kineticore technology and it consist of EPS foam crumple zones built in directly into the helmet instead of having a secondary liner.

The Vento has a top mount ScrollSys belt which replaces the dial and places right on top of the helmet making it nice and flat. It has a big large belt that can easily be adjusted while riding. It has a standard nylon straps with the Lazer buckle which is a little bit hard to squeeze as it is smaller than other buckles from other brands.

Although the helmet looks like and aero helmet, it actually has 13 vents and many of them are almost looks concelled and smaller. Without the MIPS liner or anything to block the front wide vents, it really lets the air through. On the side it also has this almost concealed vents but when you look closer there is a one vent with 2 little ports on the side. It also have this little scoops on the top which are small and stuttle and blends in the helmet.

It also has dimples on the side (which you typically see on the Zipp wheels) and they help with some speed and aerodymanics and it gives a more distinctive look. The helmet doesn't have a circular shapre but rather more or an ellipse or oval shape which is more tapered in the rear with the small vents all the way around.

As for the weight, the claimed weight is 290 grams for a medium and the actual weight of this helmet was 282 grams.

The Lazer Vento was the default helmet featured in Zwift and it replaces the bullet. Lazer offers Vento in a couple of variations. There are four total colors of this helmet. The helmet actually has a 3-piece shell design and fully finished on the interior which you really want to see especially at this price point.

With Lazer's departure from MIPS in favor to their own proprietary Kineticore technology, they can equip each helmet from kid's helmet to top end road and mountain bike helmet in the Kineticore range a full 5-star rating from Virginia Tech independent test. The Vento is a top notch helmet with a ton of features

Lazer brought out their very own version of a rotational impact technology and it is called Kineticore and it differs slightly from MIPS of Wavecell. It is all in built within the helmet because Lazer see a few compromises with MIPS. The interior of the helmet is made up of lots of little blocks of EPS foam that are designed to twist, crumple and break away on impact sending the energy of the shock across the whole helmet.

The helmet has the new ScrollSys system. It looks like a honeycomb textured converyor belt that you push down to tighten and push up to tighten. Problem arises when you have sweaty fingers and it becomes tricky to pull it down or push it up and sometimes it becomes a two-hand operations as you would need to hold the front of the helmet then adjust otherwise the helmet will shift. The retention device have 3 position so you can lower or heighten the cradle at the back of the head.

Since there is spaces between the EPS foam blocks, it allows air to flow through inside the helmet nicely. And since there is less EPS foam inside the helmet, generally it translates to a slightly lighter helmet overall.

Designed in sprint position at a 15 degree angle with a reduced frontal surface for superior aerodynamic performance

Claimed weight for small is 260 grams and 290 grams for medium and large. The medium Vento is 90 grams lighter over the Bullet 2.0 MIPS it replaced which is a huge weight savings.

As with any top-end helmet, the Vento has a sunglasses port with rubberized grip however, it does seems a little bit wide and it bends the frames of any sunglasses i tried in there. It also has an optional integrated tail light that you can attached on the led light port at the back of the helmet

The Vento is praised for its lightweight construction, improved cooling efficiency, and aerodynamic performance

Inside the helmet, the little blocks will crush in a linear impact and then will break off in a rotational impact. It has a same technology on a crash crumple zone of a vehicle.

They replaced the little dial which used to adjust the helmet with a supposedly larger and easier to move flat interface which I found it is not easy to move and sometimes it needs two hands to operate. One thing great about Lazer is the retention system takes the whole head as a circumference instead of pushing the back of your head to the front of the helmet.

Ventilation-wise, being an aero helmet, with the removal of MIPS inside, it makes the helmet scoop more air inside and force the hot air out without sacrificing protection.

The reason why I am excited about this helmet is the aerodynamics and because it is far more important and far more relevant than weight.

With Lazer creating the Kineticore proprietary system in replacement of MIPS, they have also significantly reduced the weight of the helmet as well. Actual weight of the Bullet 2 which the helmet it is replacing is 343 grams. The weight of the Ventro is at 272 grams.

If you have a fairly fragile sunglasses frame, then you may not want to put it in the helmet as it might break the frame of the glass.