Since joining the ranks of UAE Team Emirates in 2019, Tadej Pogačar has been wearing a Met helmet in various guises. His favourite lid in the range is the Met Trenta – considered one of the best road bike helmets and known for its impressive ventilation properties and rotational impact safety. Met even created a special Tadej Pogačar-edition Trenta 3K Carbon last year, complete with several special graphics and wording cues that nod to his hair sticking out from the ventilation ports.
We spotted what appears to be a completely new Met Trenta Carbon Mips on the head of Pogačar, which we believe he’s been wearing since at least stage 5. We put it to Met that we’d spotted it, and they were happy to confirm that whilst it shares a lot of its DNA and design blueprint with the current/outgoing Trenta, there are several changes that are more significant than meets the eye.
“The new Met Trenta Mips weighs a bit more than the current Trenta, but weight wasn’t the goal with the new helmet. We wanted to create a helmet that was more ventilated with a new carbon-fibre cage and also a helmet that could withstand greater energy during impacts.”
