Helmet Tech.

[Lineslinger]

Shoei launches world's first helmet with fully integrated AR

Helmet tech has been advancing rather quickly of late. We’ve seen helmets that promise 100% blind-spot elimination, others that filter the air you breathe in, and even the likes of Sena and Cardo jumping in with their respective “smart” helmets.

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[Fast Eddie]

So now I’d have to keep my helmet charged up… and ensure it gets its upgrades downloaded etc…

Not to mention the potential distraction.

Unto each his own… not for me !

 

[concours]

We've had augmented reality for a long time. It's called distracted and impaired snowflakes with marginal skills to begin with causing chaos on our highways.

 

[ashman]

Robocop on the road, bad enough with keeping an eye out for distracted drivers unless it has built in gun sight.

 

[marshg246]

So now I’d have to keep my helmet charged up… and ensure it gets its upgrades downloaded etc…

Not to mention the potential distraction.

Unto each his own… not for me !

I agree, I don't use half of the crap in my car - what do I want crap for on a bike - too damned dangerous to be distracted!

All I want for Xmas is a late 1960s Bell helmet with a visor

The helmet I have now has a visor, closeable air vents, and a retractable eye shield that is not great because it hits my nose. It makes my big head look gigantic and instantly sweat. Back in the day I used hardened photo-sun eye glasses and in the winter goggles - no full face for me, then or now!

 

[ashman]

Yeah I stick to my open face helmet, hate my head fully enclosed and good sunnies for the eyes, I have my flip top helmet for long distant travels and bad weather but it make so much noise but the wife like wearing it, had to go out on the bike yesterday was so hot and humid I just wore shorts and a good thick cotton work shirt with my bike boots, even then I was still sweating while riding, been a very hot and humid spring weather, but got home before the big thunder storm hit, so much wind and rain came from all directions, would have been bad if caught out in it as in a few places they got hail as big as your hand and bigger, we have had some wild storms of late and it's not summer yet.

 

[NPeteN]

Full face on the highway, flying road debris!
Open face around town, winking at the girls

 

[Fast Eddie]

Open face around town, winking at the girls

Well, you’re not yet at the age whereby winking at the girls means you’re a creep !!

 

[marshg246]

Well, you’re not yet at the age whereby winking at the girls means you’re a creep !!

I'm not worried about that, I'm worried that some age appropriate "girl" might take it as an invitation. I've been alone for a long time and not getting captured again worries me! I've gotten really fond of being in charge of me even if having a nagasaurus around would probably be good for me!

 

[NPeteN]

Nagasaurus! I'm gonna try that one at dinner later.

 

[marshg246]

Nagasaurus! I'm gonna try that one at dinner later.

OK, but be careful sleeping if she has a baseball bat or shootin' iron handy

 

[nattres]

OK, but be careful sleeping if she has a baseball bat or shootin' iron handy

Stuck with open face all my life. Tried a few full face, but hated the feeling of constriction, even though I know they are safer generally. The most pleasant helmet I ever had came with my first bike, a Honda 175 twin, it was a British paratrooper helmet - pudding bowl style with leather earflaps, light as a feather, and probably not a great deal of use in a real crash.

 

[Richard Tool]

While there is no doubt a full coverage helmet is safer I dislike them from a claustrophobic standpoint so open face for me . Also the increased surface area of a full coverage tends to wrench your neck when turning your head at speed.

 

[Lineslinger]

Getting smacked in the face by a Junebug at 70 + mph at night took care of any open face nostalgia for me.
Lucky it wasn't a rock although it felt like one, damn near knocked me out.
I switched to face shield after my swollen eye opened up and that was over 40 years ago.
It only takes one time.

 

[acotrel]

The first crash helmet I wrote off, was actually an ex-airforce jet helmet. I put a split in the back of it about 75mm long. The second helmet which I destroyed had a flat worn on the top of it. I had gone down the track backwards on the top of my head with my feet in the air at about 70MPH. I could actually see the other bikes coming up behind me. By the time I reached the small ripple in the bitumen, I was sliding on my side - so a dislocated collar bone was the only result. That crash still gives me a bad feeling. However, if you do not die, you are still alive. It was not my own stupidity which caused it. To die while road racing, you have to be very unlucky - the risks are usually all minimised to a tolerable level. In actual fact, I was more likely to die in the course of my employment. There were places I did not go unless it was necessary. When we die, we probably do not know we are dead - other people grieve. Today is my 84th birthday. The corners are arriving quicker.

 

[acotrel]

Getting smacked in the face by a Junebug at 70 + mph at night took care of any open face nostalgia for me.
Lucky it wasn't a rock although it felt like one, damn near knocked me out.
I switched to face shield after my swollen eye opened up and that was over 40 years ago.
It only takes one time.

A fly once went into my mouth, and I swallowed it. It did not buzz me on its way out.

 

[robs ss]

Getting smacked in the face by a Junebug at 70 + mph at night took care of any open face nostalgia for me.
Lucky it wasn't a rock although it felt like one, damn near knocked me out.
I switched to face shield after my swollen eye opened up and that was over 40 years ago.
It only takes one time.

Goggles protect my eyes
I hit a black cockatoo at 160km/hr many years ago. Thought it was a burnt out stump beside the road until it started to move - too late! I don't think the type of helmet would change things much.

 

[concours]

Happy Birthday Al!

 

[Lineslinger]

The first crash helmet I wrote off, was actually an ex-airforce jet helmet. I put a split in the back of it about 75mm long. The second helmet which I destroyed had a flat worn on the top of it. I had gone down the track backwards on the top of my head with my feet in the air at about 70MPH. I could actually see the other bikes coming up behind me. By the time I reached the small ripple in the bitumen, I was sliding on my side - so a dislocated collar bone was the only result. That crash still gives me a bad feeling. However, if you do not die, you are still alive. It was not my own stupidity which caused it. To die while road racing, you have to be very unlucky - the risks are usually all minimised to a tolerable level. In actual fact, I was more likely to die in the course of my employment. There were places I did not go unless it was necessary. When we die, we probably do not know we are dead - other people grieve. Today is my 84th birthday. The corners are arriving quicker.

Just caught up with this thread. I hope you had a great Birthday weekend Al.
Happy #84!

 

[Lineslinger]

Goggles protect my eyes
I hit a black cockatoo at 160km/hr many years ago. Thought it was a burnt out stump beside the road until it started to move - too late! I don't think the type of helmet would change things much.

I usually did too.
This particular time I got out of class late with night having come about and I only had my sunglasses