Winner of a Eurobike Design Award, the Lazer O2 helmet shown here is a great looking helmet that offers top-of-the-line crash protection without making the rider look totally ridiculous. The helmet above features Lazer’s innovative ROLLSYS Fit System on the top of the helmet that allows the rider to adjust the helmet size for a perfect fit to ensure maximum protection. The ROLLSYS Fit System can be adjusted with one hand and is intelligently designed to accomodate riders with ponytails (as the adjustment mechanism is at the top rather than the back where the ponytail usually pokes through the helmet).
I’ve been riding around the city for way too long without a helmet and I believe my search for one has ended today. MSRP: $110.
I really like this song off of Calvin Harris’ new album Ready For The Weekend. It kind of makes me feel like driving a car down a long stretch of road during sunrise. A convertible is what I’m thinking, but I guess an old station wagon with chrome bumpers would do just as well. Maybe a friend in the passenger seat too.
The UK’s Department for Transport has created this Tales of the Road website to frighten and teach children about road safety. The PSA’s put out by the Department for Transport are eerie, with characters looking like they came straight out of Coraline or The Nightmare Before Christmas.
In any case, the message so far is clear: Stop, look, and listen and wear bright clothing so you can be seen. Expect two more similarly haunting commercials to be out in the near future.
Contrail is a concept bicycle device that attaches above the wheel of a bike and covers the bicycle wheel with a layer of chalk. The chalk then creates a trail or mark on the surface of the road, turning the bike into a sort of large drawing utensil. The concept, developed by Pepin Gelardi of Studio Gelardi focuses around the idea of safety in numbers. By using this device, bicyclists will have a clearer path on which to ride safely and out of the way of vehicular traffic. At the same time, as more bicyclists using the Contrail go over a line created by a cyclist before them, the line gets brighter allowing drivers to clearly see a marked bike path where there might be none. It’s sort of similar to what happens when a dirt path appears in a grassy field after lots of people have taken the same shortcut over a period of time.
Below are two images of what the Contrail would look like in production. The first image shows a cross-section of the unit and how it works and the second image is an early production model.
I’m not too sure about the whole “safety” part of this concept, but I do think the Contrail is a nice way to visually enhance city streets. Imagine seeing colorful lines all over the pavement instead of just regular black or grey asphalt. I’d like that very much!
