Riders from Arkea-Samsic have been sporting a brand new aero helmet design from the workforce’s helmet, glasses and clothes sponsor Ekoi on the Giro d’Italia. We noticed the helmet on the top of Warren Barguil, who’s been sporting the brand new design with its eye-catching black and white stripes for a number of phases already.
The brand new helmet appears to be a substitute for the present Ekoi Aero14 Evo aero helmet, though it’s considerably extra enclosed, with simply three lengthy, aero slot vents on the entrance of the helmet and no facet venting. The form, notably in facet profile, is unquestionably paying homage to the brand new Trek Ballista helmet that additionally got here out just lately/
Like lots of the finest aero helmets for street use the brand new Ekoi helmet has a stubby tail with vents in-built, relatively than the extra elongated profile that tends to be most well-liked for time trial helmets. It’s a characteristic that ensures environment friendly aerodynamics and warmth dissipation and that’s much less affected by the rider’s head place.
As with prototype vehicles being examined earlier than launch, the brand new Ekoi helmet has a black and white masking sample utilized to it. With vehicles, that is designed to interrupt up the car’s define, in order that it’s harder to work out the brand new mannequin’s form.
That doesn’t actually work for a motorcycle helmet, notably an aero one, the place there’s much less for the viewer to soak up. Reasonably, it attracts consideration to the brand new mannequin. We’d guess that when launched, the brand new helmet’s color and sample will revert to one thing extra run-of-the-mill and fewer distinctive.
Arkea Samsic stepped as much as the WorldTour this 12 months and is driving the equally eye-catching Bianchi Oltre RC aero bike with its distinctive rising stem as its predominant bike, together with the now extra aero Bianchi Specialissima light-weight bike.
