Uvex Boss Race helmet review

The Uvex Boss Race is a great value helmet that offers price-defying adjustability and solid all-round performance.

Uvex Boss Race 1 helmet
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Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Uvex Boss Race offers price-defying adjustability that ensures the sort of secure and comfortable fit we don’t always expect from a helmet of this price. Ventilation is also reasonable, and certainly good enough for all but the very best of the British summer.

Reasons to buy
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    Great adjustability

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    Good, comfortable, secure fit

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    Removable padding

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Reasons to avoid
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    Ventilation could be a little better

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    Minimal padding

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The Uvex Boss Race sits around the mid-point of the German company’s helmet range, not that you would guess this from the level of adjustability this superb lid has to offer, allowing it to offer the sort of fit we’d expect from a lid costing two or three times this much.

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