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How about the Lap ski helmet brand introduction

Founded in 1985, Lap was one of the first manufacturers to produce snow helmets, and seven-time Tour de France champion Armstrong has always worn Lap helmets. The most important feature of the Lap is that it has a wide range of product lines, with a wide range of price points and types.
 
The Avance is Lap's first-tier product, and the $600 price tag means it's not a mass consumer product. It encompasses all the safety and process technologies available on the market today, including MIPS, hybrid architecture, and double-layer EPS, while still weighing at 450g. In terms of ventilation, like other professional racing helmets, there are only 4 vents.
 
In the snow helmet market, Lap's real workhorse is its second echelon product, the Range. In terms of process and materials, Range is almost identical to similar products of the same level, and the biggest difference between it and its competitors is in the adjustment system. It is almost impossible for each non-custom helmet to fit our head shape perfectly, so most manufacturers choose to cooperate with professional adjustment system developers, among which the Boa FS 360 adjustment system is the standard configuration of helmets at this price point, starting from the internal space, adjusting the padding to make it fit the user's head shape as much as possible, the disadvantage is that the shape of the shell has not changed, and the remaining space in the middle has increased, which will reduce the safety performance in the event of an impact. But the most distinctive feature of the Range is Lap's self-developed adjustment system, which adjusts the fit is no longer limited to the inside of the shell, but separates the top and sides of the helmet into three independent controllable modules, which also shrink and expand when adjusted, so that the fit is true in the sense of the word.
 
The details of the Range are also very thoughtful, with a magnetic buckle that is usually only equipped with top-of-the-line products by other brands. It comes with a GoPro slot, which is very friendly to Vlog enthusiasts. On top of that, there will always be some gaps between the snow helmet and the snow goggles, and in response to this problem, Range has streamlined the brim to greatly reduce the cold wind that enters the gap. All of this makes the Range a very competitive helmet, and the $250 price tag has many enthusiasts in good conscience.
 
Ledge would be a good option for users who are looking for value for money, after all, there are not many products that will be equipped with MIPS systems at the price point of $140.
 
In addition to this, Lap also offers a relatively good product range when it comes to children's snow helmets. The normal service life of a snow helmet is about 3 years, but children are in the stage of rapid development and need to be replaced almost every year, so the price of a single product has always been very low, and the profit range is not large, which is not the main battlefield of most manufacturers. Lap has launched two high-quality children's snow helmets, one is the Nine JR MIPS, which is a miniature version of Lap's mid-range helmet, and it is also one of the few children's snow helmets equipped with MIPS, priced at $110. The other is the Crue MIPS, which costs $80 and has almost no rival in terms of price-performance ratio among children's helmets.