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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 laluser »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #86

To anyone who wants to ride more safely I cannot recommend enough this simple $20 mirror which I find so valuable that I buy extra and hand them out to friends and strangers to help keep them safer. A mirror mounted on your glasses or a similar mirror affixed to your helmet (close to your eyes and mounted on your head) allows for a large field of view that you can easily steer to see behind you. I ride on the streets…

Obviously the mirror gets the job done, but I use Garmin Varia radar hooked up to my bike computer and you can see cars behind you and their velocity is displayed as different colors. It’s way more expensive, but amazing for road biking.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#102

Post by belZaah »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #86

To anyone who wants to ride more safely I cannot recommend enough this simple $20 mirror which I find so valuable that I buy extra and hand them out to friends and strangers to help keep them safer. A mirror mounted on your glasses or a similar mirror affixed to your helmet (close to your eyes and mounted on your head) allows for a large field of view that you can easily steer to see behind you. I ride on the streets…

Radars do this better. They can warn you from much further away and do not require for you to keep an eye out - there’s audible cues.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#103

Post by Drunk_Engineer »

jibal wrote: post #95
Drunk_Engineer wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes. There is no styrofoam helmet which will protect against that, and the VaTech test notably does not model that type of crash. To my knowledge, the only group that tried to test bike helmets against a car is Volvo -- and all helmets failed.

https://www.facs.org/about-acs/statements/statement-on-bicyc... Helmets reduce the risk of head injury by 48%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, facial injury by 23%, and fatal injury by 34%.2 Pediatric non-helmeted bikers have a 3-fold higher risk of serious head injury compared to helmeted bikers;3 one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%.4 Bicycle-related head injuries and deaths h…

"one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%"

That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited.

https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/06/04/feds-no-longer-ba...

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#104

Post by loeg »

mmooss wrote: post #88
loeg wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VA's test dummy doesn't have hair.

That's not a basis for your claim.

What? GP's claim is that hair provides a similar benefit. VA is simply not testing heads with hair on them -- their tests can't "show otherwise" (your claim).

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by merelysounds »

mvkel wrote: post #60

I'm not sure who this is for. It's a time trial style helmet, but isn't very useful for time trialing. And it's not a commuter helmet. And it's not a road riding helmet, as it has no breathability. Is this a defensive patent thing?

Note, they say it is based on their existing helmet[1].

[1]: https://www.canyon.com/en-de/clothing/helmets/canyon-cfr/can...

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Post by foo12bar »

> Its primary function – setting it apart from other eyewear data systems – is to provide instantly visible alerts about the behaviour other road users (e.g. such as brake light activation, *crash detection*, etc)

Just what I need, when a car nearby me crashes into a physical object, my vizor helmet is shouting "Bonzai!!!" with lighting bolts everywhere.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#108

Post by KeplerBoy »

loeg wrote: post #12
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.

It might make more sense to put this in the glasses than attached to the helmet, which is ultimately a consumable. But I basically agree with sibling comment that no one really wants this. (I race bikes and know a lot of other racers.)

Well the helmet is also a consumable (you should swap them every few years and of course after every crash). But having the visor integrated in the visor is awkward.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#109

Post by KeplerBoy »

bdavbdav wrote: post #29
airstrike wrote: post #13

I feel like this would work better if it were cheap enough to serve Uber Eats delivery workers instead of pro riders.

I’m not sure they need any more distractions

Having the route in your fov without taking the eyes off the road seems like a win. But we all know it would end up with people watching tiktok instead.
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