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Crowdfunding Smash: The Faro, a Smart and Sexy Bike Helmet

A minimalist design and lots of LED features

By Rain Noe - October 9, 2020

in Bikes

Bike helmets can be clunky, ugly and hot. But the Faro, a new design from outdoor sports equipment company Unit 1, is none of these things.

The aesthetic design is minimalist and restrained, achieving ventilation without gigantic look-at-me slashes in the surface. And for nighttime safety's sake, the front features an invisible-during-the-day visor headlight, a motion-detecting brake light at the rear, and even turn signals that can be operated by a remote on the handlebar.

You can get a better look at the features in the pitch video:

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At press time the Faro was up to $121,790 in pledges on a $20,000 goal, with 47 days left to pledge on Kickstarter.

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Shaw K

4 years ago

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Helmets are for lessening an impact on your brain. Everything layered on top, led lights in this example, are another hard point that can increase forces., requiring extra thickness. When crowdfunding young designers take a big swing at a bike helmet the first factor they think is thin, "let's beat that awful fat head aesthetic" However, the reason helmets have a standard thickness, is because that is what is required to pass testing, not because clueless old companies never thought of making a thin design. The design is nice, a derivative of Sweet helmets, in a helmet that will pass certification at the rear and brow, the thickness with a hard led bar is too thin, will never meet the G forces required. The design will be delayed as they retool thicker and thicker versions until it looks nothing like what they sold. And everyone will be older and wiser.

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George Mokray

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I use solar lights for my bike lights. A simple solar panel on this helmet would provide enough power for its lighting system I suspect.

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