I’m a helmet wearer, won’t get on without one.
I think there is a brown (Troxel?) helmet that looks nice with western tack & attire. But has any company ever tried to make a helmet that you can attach a cowboy hat to or something like that?
(Sonoma should start company and make zillions of dollars with this, no? :yes: )
Yes, and it was horrible. Search Troxel Helmet Hat
Thanks guys. Well, . . . If they made the harness skin colored and refined the cowboy hat part a bit. I think the companies need to get on this.
My Western riding friend wears the brown Troxel, it kind of looks like tooled leather. It looks pretty cool. I ride English and Western and my navy CO is quite stylin with either tack.
Now neither of us show, but we still value the coolness factor 
Check out hideahelmet.com. I met the woman who makes them when I was taking photos at a local show and didn’t realize at first that she had a helmet on.
I think some helmet makers other than Troxel now make them with a Western look but if you want to try a cover, I’d look at that site.
I liked these brims much better because of the wider width, better sun coverage if you are out all day. More like a Western Hat, which evolved for many practical reasons.
http://www.dabrim.com/html/products/equestrian/endurance.htm
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I liked these brims much better because of the wider width, better sun coverage if you are out all day. More like a Western Hat, which evolved for many practical reasons.
http://www.dabrim.com/html/products/equestrian/endurance.htm[/QUOTE]
This one is a good invention, keeps the sun out of your head best.
The western hat over the helmets never looks right because the size isn’t proportional.
Troxel makes a couple of helmets that are westerny, including Sierra, Cheyenne Rowdy, and Venture. Intrepid comes in a nice chocolate color that may work also.
I think, like in dressage, the winning design going forward won’t be to imitate old style, but to go with something different and new.
If the point is practicality with the brim, the endurance people are definitely the leaders there. That one at the link looks pretty useful.
Hope this link works. These helmet brims come out of Australia and are available in a couple of widths. You have to attach your own hat band if you want one. They are called “Sun Shades”
https://www.saddleuptack.com/xcart/product.php?productid=11&cat=5&page=1
chicamuxen
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Hope this link works. These helmet brims come out of Australia and are available in a couple of widths. You have to attach your own hat band if you want one. They are called “Sun Shades”
https://www.saddleuptack.com/xcart/product.php?productid=11&cat=5&page=1
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I like those too, but somehow I keep thinking that someone put a salad bowl on their head.
Must be all those flowers.:lol:
I wonder if this “baseball” cap style helmet (kayaking) would appeal to western riders?
http://www.coloradokayak.com/Predator-Lee-Helmet.html
chicamuxen
I think that helmets are tested for each sport, you really can’t get the right protection with those tested from another sport.
One reason riding helmets don’t have visors built in is because the kind of injuries from horses would cause whiplash with a hard visor on the helmet, like being bucked off on your head and hitting the hard visor.
I am sure those making helmets for riders know most object to the mushroom head look (and feel!) and are already trying to make them as low profile and still pass testing as they can.
Have you seen those that are a neck piece/collar that deploys like a bag in a car and wrap the whole head?
There was a link to those somewhere.
Well of course you wouldn’t ride in a helmet made for kayaking but a riding helmet could be made that looks a lot more like a ball cap with a break away visor. I have several types of visors and brims for my endurance helmets but none of them give the “right” look. I’m thinking a visor that is flexible but bendable could give that ball cap look.
chicamuxen
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Check out hideahelmet.com. I met the woman who makes them when I was taking photos at a local show and didn’t realize at first that she had a helmet on.
I think some helmet makers other than Troxel now make them with a Western look but if you want to try a cover, I’d look at that site.[/QUOTE]
Those are aweosme! Love the hide a helmet!
I have a Dabrim and it is great for Texas, BUT it flies off almost every time I canter for more than 5 minutes. I ride with a friend who has one, and hers never comes off though.
sbwinde, yours isn’t fitted to you correctly. A helmet should not be able to move on your hread at all.
Personally I don’t think a western hat style will ever look right. It will always look to big and poorly proportioned. I would just wear a helmet on the horse and keep the hat for off the horse.
[QUOTE=Ambitious Kate;7308088]sbwinde, yours isn’t fitted to you correctly. A helmet should not be able to move on your hread at all.
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I think she means the brim add-on flies off, not her helmet.
Well, here is what I use- Aussie made brim over the Troxel:
Got the brim from this place:
Ha ha ha I remember those terrible old Troxel western hat/helmets. They looked so ridiculous. They discontinued them, and then brought them back due to popular demand a few years ago, but discontinued them immediately when everyone remembered they were too ugly to possibly wear. I will never forget the catalog photo that year-- the model looked just like Jake Gyllenhall wearing one of those foam oversized Dallas Cowboys promotional cowboy hats! It was too silly to be believed. Thanks for the laugh!
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