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US company Troy Lee Designs – founded, unsurprisingly, by Troy Lee in the early 1980s - has been making mountain bike helmets for a long time now; in fact, TLD’s Edge from 1990, with its bolt-on visor, additional temple protection and deeper rear section, is uncannily close in design and execution to the modern trail helmet we know today. Fast forward 28 years, and TLD’s A1, which was released in 2014, and the A2, which hit the market in early 2017, both serve similar roles to the Edge, though in much more modern ways.
TLD’s updated A2 incorporates a host of additional safety features over the first generation version, and offers the ability to virtually custom-fit the helmet to your own…
