Originally Posted by
mr_bill
FWIW, the early Bell bicycle helmets, including the Tourlite, didn’t have a Lexan shell.
However, the Tourlite remains popular among people who have fond memories of wearing goat hair shirts.
-mr. bill
TBH, I don't think I ever wore a helmet until about 1992, when my first kid was born. By coincidence, my one and only over the handlebars experience occurred about a week before he was born, and his mother talked me into having to wear one at all times at that point.
I cannot relate at all to getting nostalgic for a model of helmet, and don't believe for a second that the ones in the 1980s were somehow better than today's.