Kali is calling the Shiva 2.0 the second coming. No one wants to plan for the crash, but if you are going to be flying down the mountain racing DH or even Enduro, you won’t find a much safer place to put your head then inside a Kali Shiva. When it was first introduced a couple years ago the Shiva was truly ground breaking with its unique impact management inside, offering a fully DOT certified helmet (so you’re welcome to cross over to moto if you want) at a light weight around 1kg. Kali are back now with version 2.0, and the new Shiva gets even safer with the Low Density Layer (LDL) nubbins we saw last year in their trail Interceptor, an improved foam liner, plus an improved fit – all while keeping the weight the same…
This time Kali Protectives is releasing the Shiva 2.0 in two versions right from the start with either the super light carbon shell, or a more affordable reinforced plastic shell that adds just 140g, both with the same all-new protection tech inside.
LDL
Kali’s LDL tech are the little green inserts in their helmet liner that is said to offer soft but durable improve protection to reduce rotational and oblique impact forces by more than 25% and reduce both low & high-G impacts. When we saw them inside the half shell Interceptor last fall, Kali told us of how rider Nicholi Rogatkin was using some prototypes when he had a heinous crash at the 2015 Redbull Rampage. Back in the lab Kali recreated the forces Rogatkin experienced in the crash and saw an actual 50% reduction in the peak rotational acceleration forces that his head would have been subjected to with a standard helmet.
That pretty much makes the addition of those little green things a no-brainer, so it’s good to see them in Shiva 2.0.
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