Giro Launches The Synthe, The Only Road Helmet You’ll Ever Need

Good riddance fugly Air Attack.

Smith’s Overtake*

ventilation, aero, comfort, performance…marketing buzzwords

Best attributes: “comfort and ventilation” (from the video)

I thought this was a helmet, there is no mention of safety technology. I don’t care about “aero” or “performance” if my head is gonna split if I crash.

SafteySAM & Ventruck:

Note, even Poc’s Octal road helmet doesn’t include MIPS.

Helmet standards are pass-fail, so we need a different standard for higher protection, but first it’s best not to crash.

I wonder how Phinney is doing?

Phinney needed knee and shin guards, at least.

What kind of non sequitor a-hole comment is that, Fattylocks?

Good lookin skid-lid.

Inners are gonna snap first time they get caught whilst hanging on a handlebar or stem though.

Can someone please explain to me what the giro logo is supposed to be? An upside down G? An eyeball? A snake tying itself into a knot?

@Ilikeicedtea

Phinney is featured in the imbedded video. I don’t think it was a dig.

The Wiz. I’d say POC does offer better protection than other offerings. Can’t find a road helmet in this category that covers the head more, less than 200gram and nice ventilation. I also expect that POC are working on MIPS.

All helmets sold in the US must pass CPSC standards. Government standards don’t work on “ratings” – they are pass/fail tools. Now, that’s not to say they couldn’t advertise their results (“max headform acceleration of only 200g!”), but that doesn’t mean a whole lot to people.

There are other standards out there – Europe has their own (the CEN standard – usually considered inferior to the US standard), Canada and Australia have ones considered more stringent. Snell runs independent testing, but only if requested by companies – the B95 standard is more stringent than CPSC, the B90 is similar.

MIPS doesn’t have much independent research I know about, but it’s definitely an interesting concept with some science to back it up.

Helmets will do a lot to save your life (reducing skull fracture, subdural hematomas, etc.) but won’t do very much at all to reduce concussion incidence. The standards are actually part of the problem for concussions – helmets are designed to pass the tests (and usually JUST pass the tests on lighter models), but sometimes this means new technology that focuses on reducing other impact criteria besides headform acceleration (like HIC) that aren’t regulated by the standard.

Pffg Louis Garneau Course helmet rip off.
Coming from an S Works, Giro Aeon, Orbea Odin and the Bell Volt, the Course is the most comfortable, stylish, best helmet out there.
This is just a “lets do that” trick from Giro.
They realize that a smaller, more compact, heavily ventilated helmet is always going to be a better and safer option, throw in the word Aero and couple charts and you have a pull product for the second semester sales.

Seric

That’s true! I am actually a big fan of POC, and I see that they offer MIPS in other lines of their products. However, I’m at a loss as to why it wasn’t integrated or offered as an option in the Octal…maybe that, too, will be coming in the Fall–as that’s when all these other dream helmets are coming to market! lol

Interestingly, if people pay attention they’ll notice that this helmet and the LG Course don’t look alike on close inspection.

Aero analysis via product pictures online! Awesome! Heck, who needs CFD and/or wind tunnels!