- What's the best bike helmet to wear in a sword fight?
- Let's talk about that.
(alarm rings) (playful theme music)
(fire blasts)
Good Mythical Morning.
- Bicycles, they're a great way to get around town
while also getting some exercise, being eco-conscious,
and putting undo stress on your grundle.
- Okay, well today we're not gonna help you
de-stress your grundle, but we are gonna help you
protect that noggin by determining the best
bike helmet you can get for under $100.
It's time for--
♪ I'm on a highway to hel ♪
♪ Met ♪
♪ To see which one's the best ♪
- Okay now we've developed a series of rigorous
but in absolutely no way frivolous bike helmet test.
Somebody may get hurt.
I hope it's not me.
Perhaps I should wear a helmet.
- Ho!
We're gonna eliminate the worst performing helmet
in each round until we have one winner remaining.
- Here are the helmets that we're gonna be testing.
The Bel Adult Quake bike helmet at $35.
- [Rhett] The Kali protective Chakra Plus
bike helmet for $50.
- [Link] The Bern Lennox at $60.
- [Rhett] The Abus Hyban Urban helmet with
integrated LED taillight for $70.
- [Link] And the Giro Hex mountain bike helmet at $80.
- To the bike safety zone!
- We're on our rooftop.
- Now you could ride your bike on the street,
but then you've gotta contend with cars,
so you should be riding on the top of buildings.
You should be a roof rider. - Roof rider!
- And if you are a roof rider, you wanna have a helmet
that will protect your head if you fall off of the building.
- So we have weighted these helmets with a bunch
of eggs to represent your highly crackable head
and we're gonna toss 'em to the ground and see
how they withstand the drop.
(rock music)
- Three. - Okay.
- Two, one.
(angelic choral music)
(helmets thumping)
- [Link] Woo!
- Oh. - What a mess!
- [Rhett] A lot of brains.
- All right, let's suss it out.
- Okay I think it's safe to say that all
of these people were injured.
We have in this first one which is the Giro,
we have two fully in tact eggs.
Okay for this one which is the Abus,
or Abbis, we're not really sure.
- [Link] Looks like a vulture got in there.
- (chuckles) We have no in tact eggs.
Okay so this is at the bottom right now.
- All right and for the Kali.
Not in tact.
In tact.
- Oh, okay. - The Bel.
- [Rhett] Oh look at that.
Just like just a regular nest down there.
- [Link] No they're all bursted.
- Except-- - There's one.
- One full in tact.
- One fully in tact. (smashes egg)
Until right there, okay.
And finally the Bern.
Ah, there ain't nothing in tact in here, man.
- [Rhett] Okay so it's down to the Abus and the Bern.
- With the Bern, a lot of the brains exited the nest.
- Right, if you're gonna crush your brains,
you at least want them to stay inside of the helmet.
- There's lots of mixed up brains
but they're still in there.
So it's pretty clear to me.
The Bern gets burnt.
(rock music)
Let's say you got a paper route in Arizona
and you partied too hard at your company
July 4th celebration, so you wake up the next day at noon
and you're like, I've gotta deliver these papers,
but what the crap, it is hot!
- Yes and you don't want your human head to cook
inside of your helmet and human heads are expensive
so instead of those we're using steaks,
along with these heat guns.
We're going to eliminate the helmet that lets the steak
cook the most.
Fire up your guns, Link.
(heat guns whirring)
- All right, even heat on both of these.
Ooh that's hot.
- Now, you may be tempted to say, hold on a second, guys.
The one with the ventilation should be the most cooling,
because that would let in the most air.
You may have even gone as far as to already comment that.
You know what, you're wrong, because the ventilating slits
actually let heat in and they cook your brain
as if it were a steak.
- Stop trying to be right about everything.
- This is science!
- My arms are getting tired.
I'm not commenting about that.
- Now I am noticing some crispiness.
A little meltiness on the helmets themselves.
At least these two.
- That smells bad.
- (chuckles) Yeah, you wanna start thinking it smells good
and then you smell the burning helmet.
- Ugh.
Ugh!
- Okay, let's stop.
Heat guns off.
- All right, let's start over here with the Kali.
Woo that's hot!
There we go.
Now if I look at this steak even from the back right there,
there's a little bit of cookage but not much at all.
The Abus, Abus kadabbus.
- That's pretty good as well.
It's cooked a little bit more in the front.
- It's cooked more.
- It's a little bit closer to the cerebral cortex
where you make your decisions.
Let's check out the Bel.
Oh wow.
- [Link] Whoa.
- We got a pretty cooked steak here.
Bel, not faring well.
- No and look at the helmet itself.
You really blasted that spot,
but that's how the sun would do it.
- Yeah you would be down to just reptilian functions
at this point.
You would be running on instinct.
And now we're gonna get into the Giro.
Is it Jee-ro, is it Jai-ro?
Is it hero?
- Gee-ro.
- [Link] Guy-ro.
- [Rhett] Oh, oh, oh, it's pretty cooked as well.
- [Link] Yeah, it is.
- But I can tell right off the bat,
the Bel is cooked more, man.
Okay, just as a final check here,
these are all the steak brains.
- Mine look great.
- Mine are both pretty cooked but I think
we can definitely see that the Bel got the most cooked.
Therefore, your brain would be the most cooked,
and therefore Bel, I'm sorry, you made it to round two,
but now you're eliminated.
- You know.
(rock music)
The helmets aren't the only thing you might need
a helmet to protect your head from.
Sometimes you might be biking with your friends,
take a wrong turn, and end up in a bad neighborhood.
- Did somebody say bad neighborhood?
- I did, yes.
- Yeah, this is a real bad neighborhood, you know why,
because we all walk around with swords.
- Who are you?
- My name is Paul.
And there was a-- - Hey Paul.
- There was a shipment of swords in a truck
and it fell over and we all got a sword.
We've been carrying swords for years.
- Okay, you seem like a nice enough guy--
- We don't put up with things in our neighborhood,
like, for instance, this little part of children
that are riding through my neighborhood
without their parents.
They shouldn't be doing that.
They need to be taught a lesson, get out of the way.
(angelic choral music)
(grunts)
- What the crap, Paul?
- Yeah, take that!
He's still got a thumbs up.
He hasn't learned his lesson but you know what?
I'm gonna teach it to his little friend.
(angelic choral music)
(sword thumping)
- Ooh.
- These kids are tough.
They stay up on the bikes.
I've never seen it before.
Never happens like this.
(angelic choral music)
(sword thumping)
Hyah!
- Yeah, good one!
That's a bad one.
- That kid has a tough helmet. - Yeah!
It was so resilient.
- Very impressive.
- You did not get through it.
- No, never happened before.
- [Link] It's amazing.
This one's definitely going through to the next round.
The Giro's got a nice slice on it,
so we may be, how do I get this thing off?
- Well there's a little strap and you just undo it.
Like all helmets. - Thank you.
- [Rhett] This kid has another problem
he should see someone about.
- [Link] Let's take the Kali off too,
'cause I don't know if the, oh look at that.
If you look at the-- - It's a nice slice there.
- So this helmet, it definitely went all the way through.
Did that one go all the way through?
- [Rhett] Oh yeah.
- Oh yeah, well this has got a bigger slice
on the styrofoam, which means that the Kali is eliminated.
(rock music)
- And now the crush test.
- There comes a time in every man's life
when he wants to get out on the road
and do a little street tanning and just spread out there,
but hey, don't forget your helmet,
'cause you don't know when some four by four
is gonna come creeping along with its wheels
perfectly aligned with your noggin.
- Yeah, so we have strapped watermelons into
our two final helmets and now we're gonna run over 'em.
(rock music)
(helmets crushing)
- Oh, I think that was them.
- [Rhett] That felt good, okay.
Oh you know what, the light's on on this one.
That's a good sign.
- Yeah that one is faring a lot better than this one.
Look at that crush job.
Oh my gosh.
- There's a flatness to this.
Obviously the noggin has been completely destroyed.
There's no more thoughts in there.
- Oh wow.
Look at that flatness.
- Now you can see, I mean obviously fully crushed,
but it still has somewhat--
- Integrity. - It has some integrity.
- And the light's still on!
- The fact that the light came on.
- [Link] I think the results are clear.
- Yes, our winner, the official Good Mythical Morning
best helmet is the Abus Hyban urban helmet
with integrated LED taillight.
- You did, it buddy. - Oh.
- [Link] Gosh.
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- You know what time it is.
- What's up guys, I'm Rob and this is Milo.
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