Skully Helmets

HansO said:

and one day you have a minor prang hit your head on the road ...Helmet is therefore considered no longer Safe so you throw away $1400, if your lucky your insurance company covers helmet replacement, or you might Oooops! bang it against something accidently and the electronics circuit board cracks .........

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and with so much advancement in technology pretty soon you'll be able to seat on your couch helmet on and play the road ride instead of riding wow,, lots of savings no bike no insurance no danger ..no life!

RKTNMYPKT said:

$1400.00?
*** that!
I got kids to raise....

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My evil mind straight away started formulation of plans and number as to a way to get one............

I just hope that this idea is picked up by other companies and there gets to be some competition to drive the prices down to a more realistic level.

Too expensive, sure, but jumping to the conclusion that the display would be distracting is still quite a leap. That's the one thing I see as really useful, the rear-view camera - but then again I still have the stock mirrors on my bike and can barely see anything behind me, and to do that I have to take my eyes off the road and turn my head...

I'd certainly give it a try! HUD's are great, and not distracting at all once you're used to them. But it better also have an intercom that's compatible with all the brands out there, BT, and still fit well (most important!). My biggest concern would be the weight! Just a few ounces makes a huge difference in neck fatique on a long ride.

No thanks.
My tunes and nothing else!

Too much digital crap in my life-cellphone, email, texting, etc. The bike is my escape from it all.
Dan

No intercom communications! Not rider to passenger or rider to rider. It seem so foolish to put this in a helmet and not include it. That is the very market this would be targeted for...

Lets see, need a good new helmet and a new gps, I would rather have one focus point for all the distractions on my handle bars...
Might be something to consider as long as I can try one out to make sure it fits.

Slick technology, but overkill, IMO. Does nothing to further protect my coconut vs currently available premium lids and they've priced themselves into the strata of the most elite of Beemer rider's or "look at me", wannabes' budgets.

In a word... fuhgeddaboudit!!!

The promotional video is deceiving. The way the HUD is described is "infinite focus point", meaning it floats in your vision and does not appear as a flat screen, they way it looks in the video. As an infinite focal point, it should be very easy to look or see "through" the image to what is actually behind it without much though, while remaining intuitive.

Probably impossible to capture the infinite focus point on video. Being able to keep your eyes forward and see your speed on the HUD alone is worth a good bit as it avoids having to speedo check, each time taking your eyes off the road and refocus at a point close to you.

If you look at this as what it is, the first to market of its kind, it is quite interesting. Worth $1400, up to you, but for sure, in the future it will get cheaper and gain more features. Once it has some speakers and the ability to connect via BT to a phone and customize the size and information on display then I think it's worth the money.

Also: Comments about durability of the electronics. Small, well built, PCBs with SMT components can usually handle impacts that would break your skull (read 100+gs) before you break the board, of course construction quality is paramount though. The camera, wire connections and batteries are more of a concern. In particular, a LiPO/Lion battery going critical that near your head should be a worry in a crash.