De meeste ‘nieuwtjes’ worden ruim van tevoren aangekonigd, op zijn minst doordat ‘per ongeluk’ een foto op Facebook verschijnt. Zoniet bij POC. Deze Zweedse helmenfabrikant stuurden net pas een persbericht de wereld over, hun nieuwe Tempor tijdrithelm zal vandaag rond 14:54 zijn werelddebuut maken in Londen.

 

“POC enters the Road Bike Scene by launching the Tempor helmet together with the Swedish Olympic Time Trial Silver Medalist Gustav Larsson

The Road Bike products are planned to evolve into one of the most important product categories for POC. As a first step towards the road bike scene, POC has developed the Tempor Time Trial helmet together with Gustav Larsson, POC Lab and aerodynamic specialists at Semcon.

With POC´s mission of “doing the best we can to possibly save lives and to reduce the consequences of accidents for gravity sport athletes”, and in this case without compromising aerodynamics, the challenge was clear. The Tempor helmet is developed to promote maximum performance and aerodynamics, without sacrificing safety properties.

POC´s new conceptual approach to optimize aerodynamics and speed was to view the rider as one body mass, rather than isolating the head from the rest of the body. Simultaneously with this new approach, energy absorbing material has been added where most needed to increase the rider´s safety.

By involving Gustav Larsson, Olympic time trial silver medalist and aerodynamic specialists from Semcon, POC has been tweaking and fine-tuning. With field testing and extensive simulation including advanced aerodynamics and kinetics, the shape has been refined and ultimately adapted to integrate perfectly with the professional bike racer´s position on the bike. In the quest for optimization, the simulations done, counts to more than 60 billion single projections. The data processing and nodes used, compared to the most sophisticated aerodynamic projections for Formula-1 cars corresponds to about 20% of those. And this is just a single helmet, compared to a whole car. The result is amazing with superior performance, both when it comes to safety and speed. How much better? We thought we´d let people guess before officially announcing it.

“We are extremely excited, enthusiastic and humble moving in on the road bike scene. It´s a category that we deliberately put on hold until we had time and capacity. Both this first time trial helmet, Tempor as well as other products in process, to come are projects where we have been able to invest more than ever before.” Says Stefan Ytterborn, Founder and CEO POC.”