POC steps up their aero street helmet recreation once more with the all-new Cytal Carbon, utilizing a home made carbon wing to lend construction for optimum rider security however extra space for airflow to maintain you cool. In profile, the brand new Cytal Carbon appears to be like comparatively acquainted – not not like earlier aero street helmets from POC – simply with some carbon weave peeking out in between ribs. However from the entrance it’s instantly obvious that this co-molded-in carbon wing freed up the Swedish helmet maker to essentially open the Cytal up for improved air flow…
POC Cytal Carbon max ventilated aero street bike helmet
This season POC has fully reshaped their street race helmet line-up. First, they reworked a time trial lid into the super-aero Procen Air with just a few vents, an built-in visor, and gentle covers excessive of your ears. And now the Italian carbon wing lets this new Cytal profit from most front-to-back air flow whereas sustaining head safety and smooth-over-the-top aerodynamics.
POC calls it a “new strategy to security, aerodynamics, and air flow”, all centered round that in-molded carbon wing.
“With the Cytal Carbon we requested ourselves how we might take our information of creating high-performance street helmets and take it to a different stage of security, aerodynamics and cooling. Particularly, we wished to reinforce a rider’s efficiency with much more air flow and cooling, which is important to human efficiency. By difficult standard pondering, utilizing distinctive supplies and creating new shapes, we discovered a solution by making a brand-new helmet and integrating a carbon wing handmade in Italy. And we’re extraordinarily optimistic in regards to the outcome.”
– Oscar Huss, POC Chief Product Officer
Optimized aerodynamics AND air flow
From an aero perspective, POC did the requisite CFD simulation, wind tunnel verification, and real-world testing – along with EF Professional Biking girls & males. POC declare that aerodynamic drag has been decreased in comparison with their earlier vented aero street helmets – particularly at increased speeds – even with a lot greater frontal openings.
Like a lot of their earlier aero designs, the entrance vents of the Cytal Carbon are designed to seize the air that varieties a high-pressure space in entrance of the helmet, and redirect it inside and across the riders head. Apparently although, the thinner edges of the carbon wing higher allowed for {smooth} airflow, each “decreasing turbulence and sustaining a linear airflow off the helmet and rider“. The outcome, in fact, decreased aero drag.
this CFD strain visualization, you get a very good sense of that airflow, and the way it interprets to Venturi impact inside air flow in keeping with POC. Lowered inside strain as air flows sooner by the smaller inside channels.
However what actually jumps out at me in that graphic is simply how skinny the carbon wing is. Normally a piece minimize like this can be a bit misleading. But it surely seems right here that the carbon wing actually is that skinny over your complete prime of the Cytal Carbon helmet, with simply 4 EPS foam ribs crossing it.
Carbon Wing development and 5-star security score
The key in keeping with POC is admittedly the shaping and construction of the carbon wing – “impressed by high-performance race automobile use”. POC
Shaping the carbon like a wing optimized airflow, however it was together with the Koridion materials sandwiched inside that helped POC optimize power and security in a crash. Koridion appears to be a novel and light-weight inside mildew factor that expands when heated to extra evenly press the carbon in opposition to the outer form of the metallic mildew. That allowed POC to create the skinny double-walled wing with max ridgity at minimal weight.
Security is in fact precedence one for a helmet, and POC say their “Entire Helmet Idea” from new to conventional supplies & development have yielded one in every of their most secure street helmets ever. Whereas there don’t look like as many buzzword acronyms like we see in loads of hlemets, this new POC Cytal Carbon has been examined by the unbiased Virigian Tech helmet lab, and obtain the very best 5-star security score.
Tech particulars
- built-in carbon wing improves air flow and aerodynamic efficiency
- Koridion-filled carbon wing improves security, helmet integrity, and drive distribution
- max through-ventilation and improved cooling through 5 entrance vents, inside airflow channels & 3 formed exhaust vents – at each low & excessive speeds
- 5-star rated security by Virgina Tech helmet testing lab
- CFD optimized aerodynamics with minimal air turbulence
- optimized density EPS liner for low weight and crash safety
- full-wrap polycarbonate in-mold shell for rigidity & sturdiness
- gentle 360° dial alter match
- sun shades storage
- CE, CPSC, and AS/NZS 2063 licensed model obtainable
- light-weight from simply 250g (claimed) for a CE licensed medium POC Cytal Carbon helmet
POC Cytal Carbon helmet – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new aero POC Cytal Carbon street helmet is obtainable now in choose retailers in Europe & North America. We’ve noticed it in pink on among the EF riders on the Tour de France in current weeks, together with Italian street nation champ Alberto Bettiol – benefiting from that Italian-made carbon wing.
The Cytal Carbon is available in 3 sizes (S 50-56cm, M 54-59cm & L 56-61cm) and in any coloration you’d like so long as it’s black – uranium black.
The brand new helmet sells for $400 / 400€ and you may as well choose one up on-line immediately from POC.com. Asia & Pacific markets will get the brand new lid inside a month or two.
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