The focus of this review, unlike usual, is not a specific product but a new technology, the Flex Spherical MIPS system that we can now find on some helmets such as the Bell Super DH, the Bell Super Air R and the Giro Manifest in the MTB segment, as well as other models of the same brands for the road segment. A technology that we of the MTB-Mag editorial staff believe to be so innovative as to mark a turning point for the future of MTB helmets and more. For this reason we decided to dedicate a specific test to the Flex Spherical MIPS.
I tested the Flex Spherical MIPS system using the Super Air helmet without the chin guard. It is their second helmet model to have adopted this system after the Super DH, subsequently used by Bell also on their top of the line motorcycle helmets. The Flex Spherical system was born from the close collaboration between Bell and MIPS as an evolution of the standard version of the Multi-directional Impact Protection System. A collaboration on which Bell has invested heavily in order to integrate the MIPS system into their products in the best possible way. It’s important to remember how the Californian brand Bell is historically and intrinsically synonymous with helmets: in the 1950s they invented the helmet as we know it now while in 1968 they created the first full-face in history.
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