Video Transcript
The Ops-Core Bump Helmet has been our favorite bump helmet for quite a while. And recently, Ops-Core has updated the bump helmet to the fast bump helmet. Now, what are the updates? Why does it cost a little bit more money? That's what I'm here to explain to you guys. So let's go from the front of the helmet to the back, and then we'll go through what comes in the box, and we'll build the helmet out. So, first off, one of the biggest updates to the helmet is a little bit more balanced. That is obviously pleasant for wearing.
You don't have the helmet tilting forward or backwards nearly as much. When you put it on, you kind of just forget the helmet's there because it's so well balanced. The front of the helmet now has a shroud that's not built in. So the original Ops-Core Bump Helmet was just a polymer shroud that was part of the helmet itself. And if that wore out, which it will over time because your NVG mounts were metal going into plastic, the helmet ended up just being no good. Now Ops-Core has introduced their standard NVG mount shroud that is replaceable, but it is also metal, so it's probably never going to wear out. There's increased cuts for ventilation, so you have a little bit better heat transfer. You have their new pad system, which is just to say simply, this is fantastic.
Then you have a new rail system that has cable management solution in it, if that's your kind of thing. And it also weighs just a little bit less. So what comes in the box? We got your bag. This is the same bag that almost every Ops-Core helmet comes with. The box itself is quite large. In it you'll have some padding for the helmet, for storage and shipping, and a big old plastic bag. None of that is all that interesting. You will have your owner's manual.
You will have a nape pad. This is a pad that you can put on the back of your neck. If you want just a little bit more stability on the helmet. I personally have never needed one of those, but some people highly prefer that. You will have additional padding that you can Velcro within the helmet. You can also move around the padding that's already in there. You kind of just get to customize the fit of the helmet to yourself. And lastly, you will get an accessory kit. What's in the accessory kit is you'll get 10 zip ties to do all sorts of things with. You'll have a rail adapter.
It's a picatinny that will attach onto here. And then you can slide it onto the rail and you can attach obviously many different things to the picatinny. And then lastly, what these little rings are for are to aid in your retention system that comes with the helmet and attaching to night vision. So some night vision units, these clips, whatever you want to call them, will not fit in the hole that's on the night vision housing. So you can put this little loop on your night vision and then these will clip right in. So those are very convenient and nice to have.
Now that we went over all of the features of the helmet, the new features, since this helmet's been updated and everything that's in the box, let's build out this helmet and give you guys an example of what this guy can look like. So we got a pile of accessories here. We got some comm headphones. We have a strobe. We have an Ops-Core counterweight. We have a SPL. So this is a lanyard to help retain night vision. We're going to need that because the PVS-14 will not be able to use the integrated retention system. Wilcox PVS-14 J-Arm, G24. We have a Princeton Tech light.
And then we have our Otto arms that will be used for mounting the headphones on. We have a cool little T.REX patch. And then we have a helmet cover. So this helmet cover is actually for the Fast SF, so that's the ballistic version of this helmet. This will fit. It doesn't fit perfectly, but I've been using it on this helmet just fine. Just make sure you get the correct size. So if you have a large helmet, just get the large Fast SF and it'll fit pretty well. It's not going to be perfect, but you'll get to see how it fits.
Another key upgrade to this helmet, which is one of my favorite upgrades that I failed to mention earlier, is that the cuts on the helmet are now super high cut. So previously the Ops-Core Bump Helmet were just high cut. And if you're familiar with the Fast SF series of helmets, they are even higher cut. So this just makes wearing headphones a little bit more comfortable on this helmet.
From here, we can kind of go in any order we want. I'm actually just going to go back to front. So I'm going to go with the counterweight. Since this helmet is going to be used with the PVS-14, I don't need all of the weights in this guy. So I'm going to take out… I'm going to start with two weights. I think that will be pretty well balanced. Generally, when I'm wearing this helmet by itself, I will have only one or two weights in here. 3 with the PVS-14 will suffice. I'll just kind of velcro it on there, unscrew this screw that's on the back and then I'll adjust the placement of this if I need to.
Now this screw kind of threads into the retention system of the helmet so as you unscrew it there's a female end that will fall out so I just like to keep my finger on it to ensure I don't lose that and keep everything lined up. If you're having a little trouble getting the screw started because it's a little tight, you can just open this guy up and that'll take some of the tension off. I will say this helmet was built before this video, so this should have been, this was already sized for the helmet nice and tight. So the counterweight's on there. I'm gonna go ahead and throw my cool T.REX patch right above it.
Go ahead and throw my strobe on there. If you need a strobe, you know you need one. If you don't know if you need one, you probably don't need one. On to the front. Go ahead and drop our G24 on here. Should just sit in just like that. Lock it into place. Just good to go. I will do night vision last. We have our helmet light. This guy will just slide right onto the rail here. Just like so. Kinda put it where you want to and then just tighten down the screw. Gonna go as far forward as I can.
Let's go ahead and do our headphones. So, we have some NoizeBarrier's from Otto. These are a single com. I start putting my headphones on. The first thing I wanna do is actually make sure my cable is routed on the inside of the helmet. Some people do route the cable on the outside of the helmet. I don't advise doing that. That is a snag hazard. So, just try and keep all your cables nice and secure. And if you can put them on the inside of the helmet, as long as it's not a hotspot bothering you, there's no reason not to. So, I will first route my headphones through the retention system. Just like so. So, they're kinda in there as if they were attached.
Now, we'll attach these guys. Pretty simple. The cool thing about the Ops-Core rails is they're very simple to install anything on. You just literally slide things on, and you'll hear them get that audible click, and they're in place. So, from here, you're gonna wanna figure out a way to secure my pigtails. You can do a number of different things, but just for the sake of this video, I'm gonna leave them just hanging for now. Alright, so now we got our night vision. So, I'm going to go ahead and attach my PVS-14.
Now that the PVS-14's on there, obviously, this retention boundary's not gonna reach all the way to the front of this night vision housing. That's all the way up here. It's just not long enough. We do need one of our little loops here so that we can attach some sort of securing method. These are a little tight, a little small, a little difficult to get on, so just bear with. I don't need both ends of the SPL, so I just took one off. I'm actually gonna put this on the side, see how this works out. So I can just go ahead, reach around, and clip this guy in.
Ended up using a zip tie, a little bit easier to attach. And there you have it. So this doesn't need to be super tight. The point of this is not to retain the night vision to the helmet in case it falls off. This is just to keep it from bouncing around, so that'll do just that job. Now from here, when you put this worm dial looking thing in the back, and that's gonna be how you tighten the helmet down.
And obviously you can tighten it down, but for the tightness of the helmet to your head, that's what you're gonna want to adjust. So, there we have it. So I'm going to then crank down this dial. That's where I want it. Just like so. And then I can, from here, adjust my chin strap. I generally don't wear a chin strap. These helmets fit me so well that I actually just never buckle this thing. For adjusting the chin strap, you have these gliders that you can just pull. If I pull this, it will just loosen up. And obviously I just go the other way for the opposite effect.
And the same thing is on just both of those chin straps. So you can just adjust the chin strap that way. You have four points of adjustment to adjust the length of it. And you can adjust it going to be tighter on one side than the other if you so desire. So here's the Ops-Core Fast Bump Helmet. If you guys have any questions about this thing, whether it's what it's made of, it's specs, how to set this thing up, how to adjust the padding, what's compatible with the helmet, what's not. Anything at all, go ahead and shoot us an email at [email protected].