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Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by arrowleaf »

snovv_crash wrote: post #25
carabiner wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty convinced mips is just marketing. Hair will do the same thing. That's why in rock climbing world, petzl hasn't even bothered with it when they're usually very forward thinking about their designs (first company to do side impact testing).

Exactly. Hair and scalp. Evolution already made a MIPS system. The thing lacking it was the test dummies that Virginia Tech uses, so now they recommend we put it in helmets too.

Not having my hair and scalp act as the MIPS system is worth the $20 extra to me.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by mmooss »

Scoundreller wrote: post #36
snovv_crash wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Hair and scalp. Evolution already made a MIPS system. The thing lacking it was the test dummies that Virginia Tech uses, so now they recommend we put it in helmets too.

Or the ground being low traction: dusty/dirt/wet. Harder to control what you land on, but will diminish MIPS’ ROI in many situations.

If ruling out risks by a priori is a solution, why wear a helmet at all? Maybe you won't hit your head when you fall. Maybe you'll land in water or on a satin pillow (low friction).

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by this_user »

KeplerBoy wrote: post #4

Kind of surprising this stuff still is little more than a concept. 12 years after google launched and scrapped it's glasses there are still no well established alternatives for cycling, which is such an obvious market. Everyone is wearing glasses, everyone has a computer mounted to their handlebar, let's integrate them together already.

And everyone will bully you on the group ride if you show up with this.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by 1shooner »

chollida1 wrote: post #16

I use a Garmin edge bike computer and a Garmin tail light with lidar that shows cars as they come up from behind on you on the computer screen and give audio alert as well. That works well enough for most road riding. I wonder if having a reverse view mapped onto my glasses would be an improvement or take away from my focus.

So about the lidar: what does that actually do for you? Or I should say, what do you do in response to it? Do you yield more road space if it tells you a car is approaching? I've been trying to understand what good such an alert actually does for an otherwise attentive rider.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by tracerbulletx »

akersten wrote: post #26

No mention of a built in camera makes this a total non starter for me. If I'm going all in on an AI helmet it better be able to record front and back so my next of kin can get a payout from whatever pavement princess flattened me in the unprotected bike lane.

Its part of a whole prototype system, the cameras would be on the bike, it also mentions radar and all kinds of things. Basically just building a whole sensor suite into a bike platform. Idk how serious they are about it. https://media-centre.canyon.com/en-INT/266864-futuristic-pro...

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by tonymet »

wxw wrote: post #3

So I started biking recently and was hunting for helmets. And turns out Virgina Tech does a bunch of helmet impact testing and maintains a ranking list https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/ . The latest helmets have a releasable layer that absorbs (converts rotational energy?) more impact. This HUD is pretty slick. In a way, it's more preventative (avoiding accidents) vs. reactive (absorbing impact in an accident) safety w…

MIPS is great but every layer is a tradeoff with venting. without MIPS the vents allow air onto your scalp. with MIPS you effectively have a plastic shower cap over your head, beneath the EVA foam insulator.

I'm anti MIPS

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by rustcleaner »

chadrs wrote: post #2

HUD won't protect from a driver texting and running you over!

What will protect is taking bicycles off motor vehicle roadways, and laying down new, much narrower bicycle-exclusive roads all over instead. It doesn't make sense to mix the slower and vulnerable bicycle traffic with the faster and safer motor vehicles!

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by Scoundreller »

mmooss wrote: post #42
Scoundreller wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the ground being low traction: dusty/dirt/wet. Harder to control what you land on, but will diminish MIPS’ ROI in many situations.

If ruling out risks by a priori is a solution, why wear a helmet at all? Maybe you won't hit your head when you fall. Maybe you'll land in water or on a satin pillow (low friction).

Not ruling out anything but pointing out MIPS’ benefits will be poorer than portrayed in the lab in many realistic situations.

Sure, buy all the safety equipment you can afford that has any possible benefit.

What’s better: a $15 more expensive bike light or a $15 more expensive helmet with MIPS?

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by reaperducer »

ethagnawl wrote: post #33

I'm sure I'm just being a crotchety old graybeard but I ride my bikes to get away from this crap. I do use Strava to track my rides on my watch but I don't even look at it until the ride is over.

I'm sure I'm just being a crotchety old graybeard but I ride my bikes to get away from this crap.

Don't apologize for being a human being. The world needs more of them.

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