Helmet technology

To ride to your potential requires confidence and peace of mind in one’s equipment. Our mountain helmets are specifically designed and enginered to incorporate the latest innovations in ventilation, fit and protection, to compliment your riding style.
What’s cool about wind tunnels? In our case, it’s not simply how air moves over and around a helmet prototype. The essential work is how the air moves inside. How does the air cool, how does it circulate and what’s the exhaust system? Temperature regulation is as vital as drag coefficient. Our Evade and prevail helmets showcase the latest innovations in ventilation, aerodynamics, fit and protection. Sometimes tunnel vision is a cool thing. Our road helmets.



ANGI

When we get a chance to ride, we take it. We escape. Sometimes that means going solo. Sometimes that means dashing off without telling friends and family where we’re headed. Trouble is, crashes happen, drivers don’t always see you, and sometimes, we simply pick the worst possible line down the sketchiest possible trail.

About Angi

Angi is a patented, helmet-mounted sensor that measures the forces transmitted to your helmet during a crash, as well as the harmful rotational forces that occur during crashes when your helmet doesn’t actually impact the ground.

This is how it works

• Angi stands for Angular and G-Force indicator.
• Angi is a patented device that contains sensors designed to measure the linear and rotational forces that typically occur during a bicycle crash.
• Angi contains an accelerometer and a gyro for measurement of linear and rotational forces. GPS functionality is provided via the phone/app that your Angi sensor is connected to.
• If the Angi sensor detects a potential crash during your ride, it will connect to the Ride App on your smartphone, sound an alarm, and start a countdown. If you’re okay, you just cancel the countdown and keep riding. If you’re injured and unable to cancel the countdown, however, the Ride App will send a text alert to your emergency contacts telling them you may have been in an accident.
• The sensor is attached by adhesive and can be removed, although we don’t recommend removing it. Once removed, the unit cannot be reattached.
• The Ride App is available for iPhones with iOS 10 or later and Android 7 or later phones.
• Angi connects via low-energy Bluetooth. The sensor does not maintain a constant connection to the phone, but instead connects itself at the start of a ride when activated. It then disconnects itself and only reconnects when it needs to.
• Angi does not conflict with other Bluetooth connections, including audio, heart rate monitors, or power meters.
• Under normal conditions and regular riding, the battery (CR2032) should last six months.
• Angi is waterproof rated at IPx7. In other words, the sensor is waterproof when immersed for 30 minutes to a depth of 1 meter.
• The Ride App has to be open to turn ANGi on, and it will run in the background during the duration of your ride.
• And since ANGi communicates through your wireless provider and requires a signal at all times for full functionality, you might wonder what happens if your ride takes you outside of cell service? In this scenario, ANGi is able to monitor your safety differently.
  
  Just set your estimated ride time before you head out. All you need is an active data signal when you start your session. If you haven’t completed your ride within that time frame, ANGi will send a notification to your contacts with your last uploaded location. This will happen regardless of whether you have cell phone service or not. Refer to the app and user manual for full functionality.
• Strava compatible.

MIPS

All of our helmets are now available with MIPS, giving you an extra layer of protection. Today, we introduce the next generation—MIPS SL.

MIPS SL integrates this patented brain-protection technology into the comfort padding itself. It's all the protection of MIPS, made ultralight, ultra-comfortable, and exclusively Specialized.

About Mips

• Every helmet model in the line is now available with MIPS. Additionally, the following helmets are also available as non-MIPS: Align, Shuffle Youth, Shuffle Child, and Mio.
• A number of independent studies indicate that MIPS liners reduce the rotational forces that occur during oblique impacts, adding protective value to helmets.
• The MIPS system is a low-friction layer that allows a sliding motion of 10 to 15mm in all directions. Studies indicate that this reduces some of the rotational forces transmitted to the brain during angled impacts.

Mips systems

All MIPS liners meet the same safety standards and function in the same fashion, with every helmet being customized with the right solution for the helmet’s intended purpose. Our lightest and best ventilated helmets, for instance, utilize MIPS SL, which is specifically designed to maximize airflow and to minimize weight.

• Mips SL: S-Works TT, S-Works Evade II, S-Works Prevail II a Ambush
• Mips B-SERIES: Centro, Align, Shuffle, a Mio
• Mips C-SERIES: Airnet, Ambush Comp, Chammonix, Echelon, Tactic 3 a Propero 3
• Mips E-SERIES: S-Works Dissident

DUAL DENSITY FOAM

Lighter weight and lower density EPS foam is used on the top, front and rear surfaces of the helmet because impacts are distributed over a greater surface area. Higher density EPS is found on temporal regions above the ears where the helmet’s structure needs more support to disperse impact energy. This mix allows us to make a better vented, lighter weight and safer helmet.

KEVLAR INNER MATRIX



Lightweight, Aramid-reinforced Inner Matrix allows for larger, deeper channeled vents.

4TH DIMENSION COOLING

CUSTOMIZABLE FIT

TRI-FIX

A wide, fixed ear-loop strap simplifies both adjustment and clearance around the ear. The single, ultra-light strap reduces weight and fits under the chin without complication, making our helmets the easiest to adjust and the most user-friendly around. For 2014, TriFix is featured on all of our helmets.

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