Best bike helmets for road cyclists 2024: lightweight, aero and all-rounder lids for every rider

We've put dozens of helmets to the test - and have rounded up the best of the bunch right here

A rider wearing one of the best bike helmets.
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anne marije rook
Anne-Marije Rook

Originally from The Netherlands, Anne-Marije started bike racing in her early twenties while living in Seattle, WA alongside working as a bike messenger. Strengthened by the many miles spent darting around Seattle's hilly streets on a steel single speed, her progression in the sport was a quick one. As she competed at the elite level, her journalism career followed, and soon she became a full-time cycling journalist, a career she's now had for 11 years.

Rachel Sokal

Rachel has been writing about and reviewing bike tech for the last 10 years. While her first riding love is mountain biking ,where she's been European and UK 24hr Champion on more than one occasion, she's not just confined to the trails and regularly rides - and occasionally races - on gravel and road too.

Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.


Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.


For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 


She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.